Insight: Work so far…
Insight is progressing, but slowly. I'm working on the first prototype, which should essentially prove the concept of the indexing system. It turns out that writing a B+ tree is more awkward than I had thought, which is slightly depressing, as that is meant to be the easy bit! Then again, once the tree is done, it should be plain sailing for a little while.
I had my second marker meeting last Wednesday, which went well. I do need to find a way to explain Insight very quickly, however. People tend to look blankly at me and say "Why would I need this?" to begin with, then they might say something like "What about Spotlight/other indexing service?" or "Why in the file system?" but once I fully explain some of its potential, they get quite excited.