Lately, my desktop has been running really slowly and recently has been crashing and shutting down expectedly fairly often. That was already slowing my work a bit. A friend and I spent four hours or so working on it to diagnose the problem. At first we thought it might be hard drive failure, but the symptoms didn't quite match. Then i noticed that sometimes when it started up, the system information showed that I only had a gig and a half of RAM instead of the full six it is supposed to have. Along with that, the processor fan had been acting up.
Now, I've come to the conclusion that the RAM chips have completely failed. This means that the computer I did most of my work on is unusable right now. I do have my laptop, but it isn't as powerful, so coding and testing goes much slower on it. I will continue my work while I work on repairing my desktop. But please know that this will likely delay the release by a couple weeks.