Still working on that. But until end of October, this will probably be on the back burner. I've got the biggest company event of the year coming up, and as every year, it's a doozy.
In simple terms, my company not only creates cash register/point of sales software, we also provide on-premise cash register services for events(¹). In a couple of weeks, i'm doing the yearly three-weekend-Oktoberfest near Vienna. I've got two delivery vans worth of equipment to set up (boss put me in charge of the whole setup for the third year in a row), including a couple of kilometers of network cabling.
Got i tight schedule, too. Can't start too early, because the tent wouldn't be up. Can't start too late, cause other equipment would prevent me from reaching the spots i need. For example: Next Tuesday afternoon the floor goes in for the main tent, on Thursday morning the beer tables get set up. If we can't mount all the wireless antennas on Wednesday, i'm in very big doodoo. That's the only time we can use the scissor lift to reach the 10 meter tent ceiling (yup, it's a big f...ing tent for like 3000 people). And when i say "we", it's mostly me and our new company apprentice...
So yeah, work on the ePub project will probably resume in November, after the usual burn-out and sprouting-more-grey-hair period.
(¹) So if you ever host an event in Austria and you need cash registers (sales, gastronomy, etc), give me a holler.
(²) Forget to mess up your work that ONE time, and now you have to do it every time... ;-)
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Sounds like quite a challenge - good luck!
One thing that might help with the tight window when you can do stuff, is to prepare with your apprentice, laying stuff out so you can pack it in reverse order of when you need it. But you probably already know this well :-)
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Yeah, i have my system and a decent Plan A. And Plan B, C, D, E and F. But when you have more than a dozen contractors working the same space, unpredictable weather and a customer who is known to change his mind in the middle of things when they see a better way of doing something(*), you gotta think on your feet.
I'm usually a somewhat boring person who likes to plan out every detail. But yet i somehow love working events like this. It's the perfect mixture of planning a year ahead and MacGyvering a working solution on the spot with the wrong tools while solving a dozen other puzzles at the same time. Really gets the old grey cells going. ;-)
(*) A company with a lot of experience doing events like this, in 90% of cases their changes are actual improvements.
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