Dint had any faintish idea how to make it work... till a short sleepy conversation at loliz place a week ago.
Complex things can be taken down in to small pieces.. tiny tricks.
First we decided to have minimal user database as the customer(multi-personal syndrome... lol) expected. MSSQL will do fine. Created database design, alone with user data & content detailed stored in several tables with content description plus urls of storage.
Running a app server to facilitate clients seem to be nice,... but is it really needed when things can be done in a simple way? Central database server would be fine... and a good online storage with ftp connectivity.
Both uploading will be also handled by the same client. Hmmm... when it come to security concerns... can make it a bit secure with a lil hash (say md5) checking against files downloaded. Then have to have an hasher in-built to our client. makes sense.
Back stage work will go like that. Have to think about a cool gui that could get all rich content in a neat way. We'll see into that.
Cheers!
whew ... what a day!
Had presentations of SmartE Notification Framework at PWHC.
Boy... that was the toughest thing i've ever done!
Panel was like few of "the people" in slk IT field. MAS Holdings IT Head, Microsoft Sri Lanka IT Head, BOC IT Head, and some project coordinator of PWHC. Presentation was ok... i guess... dint screw up like first time i did it at iit board room... lol... well of course what else cud expect... that’s the first time i myself read slides from A to Z. lol
Anyways though presentation was ok... they were not seems to be clear about some aspects and where would product will actually fit. True.. we should have limited our scope depending on capabilities of text mining engine.
Then this business issues cam in to the discussion... security of corporate data. No matter how secure, how responsible, how... u name it... still its not good enough so companies would not route their business communication content into a 3rd filtering module (centralized) for data transformation. That’s what they say. :S seems bit fair too.
Then the solution might be... having the module (data mining + transformation) hosted in-house. its a trade-off between cost/overheads & security. Everything has its price!
And then.. "do u have the algorithm u gonna use?" "can u show it working?""...
lol... yeah that’s what they ask... if we have it already we wont go on trouble to get the grant!!! duh!
discussion over a "lengthy" one hour... one hell of a discussion... technical stuff, business rules n practices, etc. We were given a second chance to get solutions for the issues raised. Getting it or not.. that was a good experience.
Moral of the story: Expect the unexpected (though this line contains a syntax error! see?),
Be armed - pack as much as technical details u can,
Solo?..nah - have a pack of people who can talk covering all aspects (business/tech/etc)
Think wider - see/read/experience...
Good Luck Smart-e!
