I Made This

Sony Media Software recently released Photo Go, an application for organizing your photos. You can correct the colour in your photos, remove red eye, straighten photos, apply effects, etc. You can order prints from ImageStation, you can email photos, you can export photos to removeable devices, import photos from your cameras and other devices, etc.

BUT! What's more important than all that is that I made this product. Me. Its my baby. This app was completed on a really tight schedule. It was started by me and the other co-op back in the Winter term. I did research on how to handle the data management, and implemented the prototype back end architecture. The other co-op, Richard, worked on the photo list UI control. By the end of our term we had an app that could scan for photos in folders that you selected and it would show them in the list, with animation and (mostly) invisible caching of the thumbnails. It was rough, but it got transformed into a useful product over the few months after I left to go back to school. When I came back to Sony this term, the team finished up last minute bug fixes in the first couple of weeks (I didn't work on it) and it went gold shortly after. Exciting times. Certainly exciting to see a product you worked on go from scratch to finish.

Very cool. You can even download a demo from the website if you'd care to try it out.

Absent Minded Ambition

I don't have any drive anymore. There's a slight ambition tugging at me, struggling to pull me through each day, but with my mind elsewhere most of the time. Its as if that excitement I used to get from completing pieces of software and seeing them work has lost its lustre. Its still exciting, its just that I don't care anymore. I've seen it before, I know things will work if I work hard enough to get them working. It isn't enough anymore for me to just see code come to life and function. I need more than that. And I don't know what that something more is.