Remus

“The First Annual Google Programming Contest, announced about 4 months ago has ended. The winner is Daniel Egnor, a former Microsoft
employee. His project converted addresses found in documents to
latitude-longitude coordinates and built a two-dimensional index of
these coordinates, thereby allowing you to limit your query to a
certain radius from a geographical location. Good for difficult
questions like “Where is the nearest all-night pizza place that will
deliver at this hour?”. Unfortunately there is no mention whether this
technology is on its way to the google labs yet. There are also details of 5 other excellent project submissions that didn’t quite make it.” [Slashdot]

It’s worth checking out the honorable mentions to some great ideas (and code for sure).

So after finishing the first fully functional internal release of MN8 we considered that running MN8 on a web server side is also useful so we started to make a servlet which will run MN8 based scripts and concepts.

A couple of days should have been enough, still it’s not ready. When I started I tried to make an accurate picture of the steps involved in order to try to improve the estimated time.

The reasons are: a malfunction of the custom scheme based url’s when MN8 is run inside Tomcat and a synchronization problem as now multiple MN8 scripts can be run concomitantly inside the same Java instance.

The synchronization issue could have been foresaw but the Tomcat thing not.

So, what takes to make accurate project estimates, experience ?