day -15: hope & girl power
Daily stories from the ambadoo team, behind the scenes, dev-stats and other random stuff.
Mission Accomplished. What we set out in the beginning of this week’s sprint we also managed to complete. The sprint demo went really well, and apart from some minor things we kept this sprint.
Current State
As it is now you can log in, either as an existing user or create an account through Facebook Connect. When you’re logged in, you can share/broadcast your profile over Bluetooth or WiFi. We’re already seeing some difficulties with this technique and will move over to a server/geo based connection system in the future. But it will have to do for now.
People nearby can then add you to their address book on the fly, conceptually it is like exchanging those business cards people did in the old days, before they added directly on twitter, facebook or linkedin.
That, plus actually being able to add & edit your profile, list contacts, view and contact a friend was pretty much what we limited the first version to. We’re close now :-)
New Backend Planning
There’s been some great changes in the API, from sending urls to only use json, a data-exchange format. Though we’re continuing to stabilize and clean up our existing back-end we’re starting the draft of a new backend, built on Neo4j, strictly using RESTful, OAuth 2.0, HATEOAS, and other open standards that makes an Open API awesome.
Girl Power
Currently we have only one iPhone developer, and as a matter of fact (as far as I know) the only female iPhone developer in the Öresund region, Ester Ytterbrink, which is pretty awesome! She’s fighting hard with the app, but it’s a heavy mission to be alone on, since everything has to be written from scratch more or less.
Rumors says that she’s getting company from next week – which would be such a relief for all of us. It’s a heavy burden to sit alone on things that’s taken another team several people months to complete. Hope we have.