Five days. Five days was all it took to get the first project. I just had to meet them twice, and it’s all mine now. Though I did give them the details about how I would go about this project, there are still too many loose ends, and in the end this might turn out to be a difficult deal. But the sky looks bright, and there are two months to go, before I have to hand it in.
I still have to decide the name of the project. Somehow I get kicks out of keeping names for projects. Like the one I did in my final year in college, was called MicroWebb. Where did that come from? Well it came half from what the project did, and half from the novel I was reading at the time. The project was to create a TCP/IP stack for a micro-controller. And the novel I was reading was Bourne Identity. (the main guy was called David Webb). Now I liked the novel as much as I liked the project, so I mixed them up a bit, from the initial MicroWeb to MicroWebb. And somehow, because of that, I can never forget either of them.
Anyways, I still have to figure out a name for this latest project. For a start I am going to start with FlyingDodo, mainly because, I know it can’t fly right now, though it is supposed to, and I’m sincerely hoping that this one does fly.
Why do I say that it might not fly? Well because there are a few technical difficulties. First of all, I would have to write the code in c#, which I have to start learning, plus, I have never written a complete code from scratch, and this might well be my first one. Then there are web services. I’ve never been anywhere close to doing anything on the web (except blogging I guess). Earlier, I used to maintain, backends of financial systems, which were developed in C. Though they were huge code masses, extending upto 100,000 lines of code for a single project, and I handled about seven of them. So size wasn’t the problem, the problem was the learning curve. Who knows if I would be able to match up to the pace required.
And well, there is not a minute to waste, so I’ll start. If two months from now, I don’t write a blog entry which says that I successfully delivered the product, you would know that I extended the deadline on the very first project, and maybe finished off my company before it could even start, or maybe have found a job again.