CST 499 Week 2

Week 2

This week was busy. I focused on creating the backend project for my team's task tracker application, InScope. Setting up the routes in addition to the "Hello World" route took a while because we wanted text and json responses to come from the endpoints. The initial database schema was setup using the Sequelize ORM, which was lacking in documentation and support, and created the appropriate database for it, locally. In addition to that, I added some developer friendliness to the application by updating the javascript to ES6, adding a javascript linter, and git commit hooks to enforce the linter.

We had a lot of plans for this week and weren't able to complete them. I'm hoping that this week and over the weekend I'll get more features added and we can start chugging away at the code base. My team members have been great with setting up the front end and login system using Google, along with the mockups for the application. I think we're going to do well and will get further in the coming weeks when we're all familiar with the technology stack.

Filling in my "ILP" website took a long time because I couldn't remember how to run many of the final projects for the past courses or what the final projects even were. After an entire day devoted to it, I finally got it. You can check it out at ladymozzarella.weebly.com!

The team meetings are going well. We meet briefly on Sunday nights. I think the largest takeaway that I gained from the reading last week on effective meetings is to come to the meeting prepared and with a plan. Each of us had goals and questions we wanted to be answered and were able to get what we needed from these meetings.

This class has been really flexible so far and I look forward to seeing what we produce in the next week!