Imagine Cup woes
Wow! My experience of my first Imagine Cup entry has been one I’ll never forget, and not just for some of the good reasons. Through one problem or another, our team members have been scratching their heads trying to figure out cryptic errors and getting around restrictions. I’m not even talking about the problem that none of us know ASP.net, and that only one person knows C#.
The funniest bit must have been when I found a solution to a problem we’d been having, but it was in Visual Basic rather than C#. That meant having to translate one to the other without knowing either of the languages.
Then came the problems with uploading the database. The university didn’t allow incoming or outgoing connections to do with SQL servers, so we had to use an intricate balance of remote logins, email and sheer brute-force coding to get around these problems.
The final straw came when the whole thing didn’t work. We all went to sleep and the next day, lo-and-behold, it had magically come to life. I don’t what happened or how it happened, but taking into consideration the number of years we must have lost off our lives due to the stress we’ve been under, it was a welcome miracle!
Now let’s see what Microsoft makes of our application.