Next up: Project 2, or as I call it, “The Big One”.
You know how it works, the first part is cool, the sequel is pretty much the first one again, so it is still okay but you feel a little ripped-off afterwards. Luckily there is no “Project 3: The Projectioning”.
Project 1 was the part where I just had to dream up how the hell I was going to build the stupid application I had come up with. Project 2 is where I have to walk the walk.
So my amazing idea was to build a social networking site. Yeah, I know. But wait! My amazing idea was to build a social networking site. In 3D. In HTML and Javascript. Yeah, I KNOW!
But now allow me to ask some questions. Did you know that building a page with roughly 20 different popups can be kind of a pain? Did you know that moving 30 DIVs plus another 30 DIVs as their shadows plus another 60 invisible DIVs for additional content is actually still quite fast? Did you know that Firefox starts choking at around 100 DIVs+100 DIVs+200 DIVs? Did you know that instead of trying to run another test with 750 DIVs I could just as easily have tried to teach a rock how to dance Lambada? And did you know that adding a couple hundred more DIVs to draw lines between other DIVs can entertain a whole family in Africa for at least a year? Me neither, still there is a hint of truth in it.
But at least a lot of other stuff works. Actually a massive assload of stuff works. Now I just need to pull about a page of text about each of my failings out of my ass and somehow make all that amalgamate into a sweet little project report.
Oh, and then there’s the Poster Presentation nobody is telling us anything about.
Okay…guess I’ll go back then. Back to my patent-pending super-cool 3D networking thingy. The one that only runs in Gecko browsers. And might work in Safari if Safari did not crash roughly 5 seconds after I logged in. Every single time.
Wombat!