Archive for April, 2009

Design Time

Posted in Design, Development on April 24th, 2009 by Stephen Hurn1 Comment

The time was half past seven in the evening.  It had been dark for an hour outside.  My stomach was empty, but I pressed on.  It was quiet in my study at home, the only activity - my feverish typing away at the keyboard.  I was almost done, joy within sight.

You see I was finishing the design specification for the latest iteration of ez2view.  This version was going to be the most ambitious version of our products yet and, after heavy internal debate, we had finally decided on where the product would go.  I spent the last week researching the technologies that we needed and designing the core structure of how the program would work.

Who am I?  My name is Stephen Hurn and I am the Product Manager of ez2view Australia and its companion product ez2update Australia.  I have been with global-roam since 2006 and have seen the company grow threefold over the last three years.  I will occasionally be pontificating on this blog about my times at global-roam.

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