This is an ordinary month, just like every month I spent. But there are still things I must record.
The first one is eLook product still remains un-released.
Not because we didn’t work hard, but as a result which turned out, it’s obviously that we didn’t work hard enough.
It is the first formal ALL-IN-ONE product for UniSVR which is a scaled steaming server, and also integrated with recording/alarm/notification/video processing functions.
And we do not have enought experience for all the unexpecting situations we’ve encounterred in such an embedded working environment. While developping a x86 based server product, we normally assume that the server is power enought that it has a super CPU, memory RAM is abundant, and we should never worry about hard disk efficiancy and other hardware related issues.
But the thing is we are not developping a normal server product we used to do, so we somehow in some way we don’t know lots of things we are confront with.
And even more, there always things we can not avoid.
1) There are stability issues in some UDI components, and in this month, I started to take over these parts of development myself, not because I wanted to, but I must, at lease in current circumstance.
2) UE Express, as a base of eLook, exists bugs & efficiancy issues we didn’t resovle for years, they are bugging eLook now.
3) Some issues reported by QA team can not reproduce in Shanghai RD evironment because Shanghai office dont have proper devices to run the tests, last week I requested 2 device samples for Shanghai team, but they are not delivered to Shanghai till now.
4) One of my team member who is responsible for Skype SDK for arm(which we are using to send SMS for the alarm event) is leak of skills in common arm based development, including toolchain & cross compiling, and this also caused a weeks delay, this function can not work till I envolved myself in it, :(.
5) …
Well, this is not an excuse anyway, all we see is the eLook delayed one more time, and it’s really a sad thing.
The second one is I’m happy that I’m still keeping playing badminton. It really an incredible matter for me to stick on one aerobic exercise, said by my dear wife. So I’m really happy for myself. And as a result, one of my colleague told me some day in the last week: “Jacky, I haven’t see you get a cough for a long long time”, believe me, it’s not a curse, and I really really happy for her words, XD.
The third event I must record is, one day in November 2012, my mum was hurt after she took Catherine to one of Catherine’s former classmate’s home for a visit. She was not hurt in physical, but a memtally hurt. It can be expressed by only a few words, the former classmate does homework (learning, writing, mathematics calculating) every day when she comes back from kindergarten, and she can write a pretty Chinese now. Instead of that, Catherine was watching TV, doing some scribble/painting, or making some handwork every day. Frankly, I don’t know which one would be the right one. All I wish is my sweetheart will grow up happily with her own CHILDHOOD which peaples in our age did not have.