wow it has been a long time since I last blogged. I blame that on working stupidly long days and weekends for the past while. I am currently doing a research project which seems to eat time like a fat man at the sizzler. Anyways, the world competition is quickly approaching and our team is doing their best to add the last bells and wistles to our application. I recently finished adding some weather monitoring services and mappoint features to the application and now its testing time. We have a solid week or so before we leave so that will give us enough time to tie up all the loose ends.
I have now turned my focus to marketing our application to the judges at the world competition. I am told the judges will have a very technical background. Based on the metrics outlined for scoring, I think our application should stand up well. However, we only have about 15 minutes in front of each judge so we have to decide what slant we want to put on our presentation. Any ideas what we should emphasize? the broad range of technologies we use, the technical design, how the application meets a real world problem and solves it well, ????? We will obviously work to hit on as many points as we can in our presentation to the judges, however, everyone usually has one or two things that sticks out the most about a memory. What do we want the judges to parallel with game.set.match. in their minds - technology, practicality, usability, SOA architecture ??? Basically, I think we need to determine what will help us get our application to stand out. Will other groups blow us away with implementation or will their general idaes be better or more marketable? We need to pick the battles we have a good shot at being the best at and do an excellent job of selling ourselves in those areas. Noone ever remembers the second best of anything, right?