A note from the CS Team

Hey, Bryan here for a quick update from the CS folks. Got here around 0815, got the KVM switch and server installed, then spent an interesting few minutes before 1000 copying the latest and greatest version of the code over from my laptop to the server. Met w/ Dr. Garcia this morning from about 1000 to 1100 to find out how things really work down here, show him what we had, tell him what we could change, and find out what needed to be changed. Some interface differences, some data differences, but nothing unexpected or too difficult to fix. He seemed very pleased with what we had so far and excited about what we were going to do, which is always good. My concern is that the person who enters all the data will need an interface that's *fast*, not necessarily look good. Fun part of UI design is not making things qool, but making them work seamlessly with what the user's expecting. Gonna meet with Dr. Madrid tomorrow, hopefully, but the rest of today will be spent coding and fixing things. Fouss and Biagi are working on Auto Thingy (yes, that *is* the real name), and Joe and I will be fixing and polishing Debut / Patient Tracker for the rest of the day. (and night, and however long the cafe con leche lasts) We four (Fouss, Biagi, myself, and Joe) will be here in Catacamas for the rest of the week, and hopefully will join the Engineers later, but we want to spend at least a day or two with the folks here using the system "in production" to make sure all the bugs are worked out. Bugfixing's hard enough, without having to do it remotely, and with a language barrier to boot.

In other news, the hotel is nice (about 500 meters from PrediSan), and the cafe (coffee) is most excellent. The only remaining question is how much the nice customs agents will let me take out of the country when I leave...