Week 7 and 8

For some reason I have a hard time remembering these journal entries. Maybe because I'm busy, Maybe because (like most of the class) I feel they are a waste of everyones time.

I was really struggling with concentration for weeks 6 and 7. I was working on a difficult issue at work most of both weeks which I could not resolve (it turned out to be a dll that was improperly installed on 9 of 27 machines that pool their work, rather than a code bug), and which the business side of my company was hounding me about almost hourly.

This week I really kicked in the overdrive to be done with my piece in time, which has left me feeling stressed and exhausted.
Maybe a little depressed. I would have liked to go with the group to Africa.
Maybe a little relieved. I have neither the time nor the money to spend two weeks away from work and school right now.

I am concerned about the "plan" to run our system on iis on the same system as the Hospital software. It has NEVER been tested on windows, much less iis with a php plugin. Going forward assuming it will just work is in my view really stupid. I hope it works anyway.

...and once again it is time to reflect on the service aspect of the class... I wonder whether the system will really be usable. UI design (ergonomics) was not a big part of what anybody was thinking abaout as they coded parts of it.
I hope it is usable enough for future students to build on.

Week	Team Meetings	Project Work	Journal Writing	CBL Hours with Client	Other *
One	2	5	0.5	0	4
Two	1.5	9	0.5	0	0
Three	2	4	0.5	0.5	0
Four	2	6	0.5	0	0
Five	2.5	5	0.5	0	0
Six	2	4	0.5	0	0
Seven	2	3	0.5	0	0
Eight	2	14	0.5	0	0
Totals	16	50	4	0.5	4