Well this semester's blog got neglected. I didn't have much new to post anyway. I had concepts that I wanted to develop. I wish I had actually done so a little earlier too. I can't say that though, Digital Cinema Studies sucked too much time and that is the way it was. Out of my hands somewhat. Screw group work in electives, it's always a formula for sucking more time than you have, and sucking it away from stuff that is worth more. Like Studio.

I wanted to get back into iPhone application development but wasn't sure how, I'm building a website after all. Somewhere along the line, I had an idea for a location-aware dating service on the iPhone. I fleshed out the idea in my head and mentioned it to a class-mate and former team member of one of my good-group experiences in BCT, Lidy. She quite liked the idea and equated it to a sort of speed dating. The idea was basically an app that knew your location and allowed you to meet up with other registered users over a coffee break. I discussed it - over coffee - with Lidy and Anneke a couple of days later. I love bouncing ideas off them. The idea then sat around in my head for a while as I had to fight fires with Digital Cinema Studies and hand in an animation assignment in a complex program I'd never used before called Maya....

As semester end drew near I realised it might be more prudent to spend my remaining time collating all the dating website research I had done into meaningful thoughts and writing. I then built a presentation, a contextual statement (which then made me change my presentation) and then try to build the application. Of course time was running out and building a whole application from scratch when I haven't used XCode / Objective-C for 2 years (and XCode has changed significantly in that time it turns out) was a bit ambitious. I built a basic storyboard for it and a couple of iterations of designs but they really need more work and then I had to create other hand-in material. I really want to make an exhibition of quality, but this semester wasn't going to be it. I had neither time nor money nor a working application. I settled for a poster. I think my idea was strong and there was a lot of of background to it. But I can do an order of magnitude better. Though for that to happen there need to be certain conditions met which weren't... Next semester I'm going to blow everyone away.

It will be interesting to see the results of this semester though.

Oh yeah, the application is called (currently) CoffeeDate.