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Cut the Cross Down

Many things happened in the past few weeks, but I didn't record them in a consistent manner. It's like I'm carrying less burden than before, but the consequences could be pretty bad in the long run. Accomplishes:  1. Finished the book "You can draw in 30 days" and managed to draw sophisticated 3D objects. 2. Finished reading the first DSLR photographing book and practised three weekends on  a second-hand Canon D7 camera. Learn everything from a scratch from Zhixing. Attended my friend, Jingping's harmonica concert. 3. Launched our Clockie app V1.0. Finished the V1.1 debugging and modification. On going for the V1.2. We consider this app to be our first experiment on how to make a real product. Besides UI and features, we are going to do some experiments on the business side as well, for instance the free-premium business model. However, since there are small issues with the current version, we still ch

End of February

These two weeks went really quickly. All of a sudden, it is already end of the month. There are basically two improvements worth recording. 1. In the readpeer team, we tried to do daily scrum meeting at 11am. We're clearer about the goals and we've effectively fixed miner bugs for the API as well as the App/Plugin workflow. Now, the bugs are mostly cleared and the APIs are mostly well-tested after two weeks' trials and errors. The iOS app is also progressing well, mostly because of Zijian's passion and smartness. Hopefully, we can have a demo next week for both the iOS app and the browser plugin. However, the Android app is slightly lagging. We just started integrating the APIs in the Android app. From the API design and implementation experience, I started to realize the potential security issues out there for the apps. For Android app, it is actually pretty easy to be decompiled into codes. It's pretty dangerous to simply put the app_api_key and app_api_secr