Loud Baking

One of the things I hate the most when developing an application is counting on 3rd parties to deliver or reply on time. Be it freelancers, API developers or sometimes your own partners (banks, lawyers, etc.). In this case, it’s the API developers. A couple days ago, I emailed Google for some help on finding ‘My Client Center’ link under the ‘Account’ tab in my Adwords account. After waiting 4 days, when I finally received an email from their support team, I was excited, but not for long. Even though I had sent a specific request, explaining that I have already received my developer token but couldn’t log to my developer account, all I got back is a quick-reply style of email with the instructions on how to apply for a developer token! Looks like when you’re Google you can permit yourself everything from late replies to stupid staff.

Anyhow, this obviously affects the development of a vendor class I wanted to finish, but nothing that could stop me from moving on and pushing it back a couple of weeks. In the worst case scenario, if they just tell me that my developer token is not valid anymore (inactivity for a long period is the only reason I could think of) and since they don’t give out developer tokens anymore, I will find myself obliged to completely scrap that feature from the application. It sucks, I know, but that’s the price to pay when some of your features depend on 3rd parties I guess.

On the positive side of things, everything has been going according to the initial timeline with a couple of improvements to be made on the design and finalizing the teaser page for early invitations.