CST 499 Week 1

Week 1

This week we read an article about how to hold effective meetings. There was some useful material in it that I will definitely consider as my team begins holding our regular check-in meetings for this course (we've decided to meet every Sunday). Of the recommendations provided by the article, the most important thing for us to do is set goals for the meetings and know what we want to accomplish when we get together. There were several suggestions that were more applicable to meetings in larger workplaces, but many of them were applicable to our smaller meetings. In addition to setting goals for the meeting, I believe it will be useful to follow the suggestions to postpone a meeting if the crucial members are unable to participate, define a meeting follow-up plan, which could include setting deadlines and assigning someone to each follow-up task and follow up with participants before the next meeting.

We decided on a technology stack for our project, which was the primary focus for us. We're going to be writing everything in Typescript/Javascript, using Express for our backend framework (running on Node.js) and Angular for our frontend framework. Our database will be created using PostgreSQL and we're going to use Bootstrap as our CSS framework, at least initially. Ken has created our initial database schema and set up accounts for hosting, I've begun work setting up our backend framework and Chris is working on our initial frontend code. This upcoming week we will begin working on the project itself and some of its features. Everything appears on track at the moment and I'm looking forward to getting up and running with it.

Working with these JavaScript frameworks is completely new to me and I look forward to being able to apply what I learn in this project to my career.