I'm still expected to do write those impossible four demos. As I mentioned in a previous post, I spent 3 hours learning a new programming language, and started writing code in it. Except that the language I'm programming in (XQuery) hasn't been invented yet. The working draft for the XQuery 1.0 specifications was only released on April 4th, 2005. Now it's going through peer review, people will find mistakes with it, revise it and change it, and maybe in 1 or 2 years, they'll release the specifications for the language. And then after that, they'll start making tools to work with XQuery.

Right now I'm working with a plain text editor, and our compiler doesn't actually implement all the keywords of XQuery yet. I should be able to get all the children of a node using the children() function, but that's not implemented yet.

So using this crappy tools, I have to the equivalent of my school project, which took me 4 months, in only 1 or 2 weeks. And my school project had the latest and greatest tools which sped development a lot (Java 1.4, Eclipse 3.0, etc.)