These past two weeks quite a roller coaster ride in terms of intensity at the office. Crunch time was about us but for the most part we managed to deliver the product. Management was quite happy and we got our first customer on board. Although it’s still in a beta (pre-alpha?) phase, the whole point was to launch something, iterate and receive feedback to improve the product.
With the product launched, there’s a little more breathing room in terms of fixing things up and getting it to where it needs to be. Of course, the road to getting to that point wasn’t easy. For myself, I spent more than one night up quite late into the night tearing my hair out in trying to get the thing to a semi-usable state. And there were some umadbro moments too.
From an application point of view, I think the biggest issue was organization, especially on the client-side (i.e. Javascript). As a result, I started looking for a framework to help resolve some of the architectural issues and believe I have found a pretty damn good solution called JavascriptMVC. Once I evaluate it at home, I’ll write more on it.
The good thing is that with the application pushed to production, I was able to make my long awaited return to the gym. So far, I managed to hit four days this week, which is pretty good. However, I still have to get back to my old schedule and level, so I feel I’m a long way off. I have more than one reason to hit the gym but I’ll explore that topic in another blog post.
Returning to the topic of work, outside of the project going live, there were some other major points of good news. First, we got a small round of venture debt funding. So already we began hiring in the sales and client support area. Don’t know when some of these people will be coming in, but it’s always a great sign when a company makes an effort to hire.
Another cool thing was that my company was on NBC LA. We had a nice video on one of two big start ups in LA. The online video had a nice sampling of the company and its culture. I was happy that my ugly mug barely made it on camera (I have zero photogenic attributes). However, the fact we made it on camera and on a section of the news again demonstrated a positive facet for my company.
The week had its down moments as well. But I want to address the particular issue in a separate blog. Of course, I’m still trying to make my way on World of Warcraft. Kinda getting bored of it though. Need to find something else to do because it’s becoming really repetitive at the moment.
Anyway, next week ought to be another intense week. Or maybe it might not be depending on how far we can get with our fixes.