bifröst

or: presentation is everything

Within the last week I worked a lot for FabrikIM, a software written in ruby. This project is part of my studies and we had to do it as a group of four people. It’s more or less a simulation with input of sellwishes, working lists for the staff etc. and and output of production or orderlist. Our tool is maybe the best in a technical view (I am sure it is ;)) and we finished the concomitantly business game as no 1. But sometimes technique is evil. The software worked fine and we had to present it today. But we did not check all technical issues, which means that the LiveCD (FabrikIM was developed under linux but will work on every platform) failed to open our presentation, because we just tested the documentation and the tool itself. So we switched to our normal developing machine (at least one of them :D) and there the connection to the beamer sucked: 640×432!? No way to change it fast and so the technique was our undoing. The presentation was “ok” but you could see anything in the live demo of the tool itself. Now we will get a “bad” mark cause we “ignored” something very important: presentation is everything.

But: we will release the good part of the software as open source soon, so stay tuned…!