Building web services is fun. You can have them fast, secure, reliable, scalable, maintainable and sexy. Pick any two.

As our first goal we had much less ambitious requirement: “working”. Few nights this week were pretty intense, but we have done it - moved the technology to the English language. At this point in time I’d like to really say that I am extremely lucky to be able to work with a team like this one. Everybody gave their best, and sacrificed a lot of sleep. Luckily we had Jaffa Cakes that kept us awake and running.

Before one of the presentations this week I have slept just over a hour and a half. But the joy of being able to demonstrate the product instead of just describing it (or showing the Slovenian version that noone would understand) made it worth the trouble.

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