I had worked for full 6 months on the U:Desk project before I came to America.

It was so intensive due to the excessive amount of requirement and lack of time.

After all, at the end of the semester, I had to admit that I could not finish the project.

Moreover, I was not sure if the project was meaningful enough.

2 days ago, U:Desk won the gold prize in 2008 Soongsil University IT Contest.

I am so happy that my work was worthy, and I and my colleagues did a good job.

Based on what I have experienced through out the project period,

I am writing a paper about how the project went, what was the cause of overtime and overbudget, the lessons learned, and possible changes on the project for students working on their own projects over in Korea and any other students who are up on the same situation.

I sincerely thank all the project members who worked with me on U:Desk.

:D

"Half the industry uses Mac. So the Mac compatibility (multi-platform) is desired."

I was surprised, I'd rather say shocked, when I heard the requirement from the client.

I'm currently working on a project called "Theatre Script Online Database" as a Project Manager.

Its main purpose is to distribute acting script to the actresses and actors through the Internet, saving costs of copying and papers.

Back in Korea, I guess more than 95% of the people, who are not in the computer industry, use PCs.

They also use only Microsoft Internet Explorer as their primary web browser, which makes me, as a web developer, never need to care about any other platform when I work, even though I built everything to the web standards.

The world is big, the situation over in America is little bit different.

SAL Computer Lab, in Salvatori Computer Science Center, is filled with half PCs, another half Macs, and few Solaris machines.

It's not like one platform has monopoly, but competes each other.

We, the project team, finally decided to make it web-based, compatible to all the major browsers.


My friends in Korea, be open and get out of the jail of Microsoft.

Google announced its first web browser - Chrome.

What they claim is that current web browsers are not well-tuned for rich web applications, and Chrome is developed from scratch to run those applications such as Google docs.

There's only Windows version by now, I hope Google keep working on the other platforms - Mac and Linux.