After a relaxing but poor weekend in sport, we started the 2nd week with the new features starting to be developed and the final touches being made to the 1st week features.
With my role staying the same for the week I was in the labs after the morning meeting and helping people when help was needed. Then seeing as it was Paddy's day i went for an early pint. may as well keep up the stereotype of the Irish.
After bite to eat i was helping Steve with his feature on making comment boxes on the photos that get uploaded as i had been looking at some of the scripts for something similar last week.
We then had another meeting in which we had a progress update and found out who required help with their feature but hadn't mentioned in the labs.
A following meeting at 5 was when we took up the idea of developing mini features so that the website has abit more functionality and look more like a website, and with this i got the exciting task of finding the term dates.
Overall with the day i found it was more productive than last week as i was able to help people with php rather than not being able to help with the integration at the end of last week.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Tuesday 18th March
Today started off the same as every other day with our cohort meeting which got through the same points as the previous days, on who had done what, what needed to be done and by when.
With keeping on the role of being a helper for the feature developers i was in and around the 2 main developing labs helping people with any problems that they came up with, and provided them with the assistance that i was capable of and the errors that i was unable to solve i researched on the web while the developers got on with other aspects of their features. i often found that this was abit of a pointless task in going of to research the errors as when i would find an answer to their problem the programmer would have done the smart thing and found someone that knew more about the problem and already got past the error. an upside of this was that if i came to the problem with my feature i would know the way around it.
today was also the demo of the functionality of the features that had been developed so far. as per usual the features were working as expected but seeing as they where just being shown as white boxes Mr McKearney wasn't to impressed. So this was something that would concern me as i would have to help the developers sort this and develop into their code and lead to an eventful day tomorrow.
With keeping on the role of being a helper for the feature developers i was in and around the 2 main developing labs helping people with any problems that they came up with, and provided them with the assistance that i was capable of and the errors that i was unable to solve i researched on the web while the developers got on with other aspects of their features. i often found that this was abit of a pointless task in going of to research the errors as when i would find an answer to their problem the programmer would have done the smart thing and found someone that knew more about the problem and already got past the error. an upside of this was that if i came to the problem with my feature i would know the way around it.
today was also the demo of the functionality of the features that had been developed so far. as per usual the features were working as expected but seeing as they where just being shown as white boxes Mr McKearney wasn't to impressed. So this was something that would concern me as i would have to help the developers sort this and develop into their code and lead to an eventful day tomorrow.
Monday, 17 March 2008
Friday 14th March
Today we started with a meeting to talk about the demonstration and how it was going to be run.
Seeing as I wasn't developing my feature this week today didn't deal me with any stress as it had been left to the website integration to get the features on to the site.
After the demo of the website we then had another meeting to discuss the upcoming week, relating to the features and who will become the leaders of each development group.
With the week as a whole i feel that my role as a helper was worthwhile on the first 2 days when people were focusing their feature and working with php but when it came to them integrating it and using functions for the database i wasnt able to help anyone with this, leading to my role not doing that much.
Seeing as I wasn't developing my feature this week today didn't deal me with any stress as it had been left to the website integration to get the features on to the site.
After the demo of the website we then had another meeting to discuss the upcoming week, relating to the features and who will become the leaders of each development group.
With the week as a whole i feel that my role as a helper was worthwhile on the first 2 days when people were focusing their feature and working with php but when it came to them integrating it and using functions for the database i wasnt able to help anyone with this, leading to my role not doing that much.
Friday, 14 March 2008
Thursday 13th March
Today we started with a meeting in 334 and discussed the situation of the project and what had to be completed by the end of the day.
Throughout the day I was checking if people needed any help with the development of their feature but at this stage of the week it was all down to the integration of their features to the site so they were all working with the website team. With this i spent some time looking at my own feature on how i would develop it and thought through it in more detail. Also with my day I looked on placements for a bit and also looked at the Business Context assignment.
Then we had the afternoon meeting where we discussed how close to completion everyone was and the areas that needed work on and again it was work through the integration and database.
Throughout the day I was checking if people needed any help with the development of their feature but at this stage of the week it was all down to the integration of their features to the site so they were all working with the website team. With this i spent some time looking at my own feature on how i would develop it and thought through it in more detail. Also with my day I looked on placements for a bit and also looked at the Business Context assignment.
Then we had the afternoon meeting where we discussed how close to completion everyone was and the areas that needed work on and again it was work through the integration and database.
Wednesday 12th March
Having turned up unexpectedly early I sat in on the project managers meeting and learned what was happening with the upcoming day and where we had progressed to from the previous day. Then on to the cohort meeting where we discussed the previous day and what point everyone was at and decided on the logo.
Then up until the afternoon meeting i was going around the rooms seeing if people needed any help with their features but the majority of people had already finished the main php and coding so the stuff that i was working on was being focused upon by the specific areas such as database and website integration.
In the afternoon meeting we found out that the process of the feature to the database could be done alot easier by adding functions but again with this concering the database team I also didnt get involved with this, whether it was down to myself getting involved or database team working within themselves.
With the day as a whole i feel that i was a bit out of place as when i asked people to help i got a bad response but seeing as im not apart of a group it can be expected.
Then up until the afternoon meeting i was going around the rooms seeing if people needed any help with their features but the majority of people had already finished the main php and coding so the stuff that i was working on was being focused upon by the specific areas such as database and website integration.
In the afternoon meeting we found out that the process of the feature to the database could be done alot easier by adding functions but again with this concering the database team I also didnt get involved with this, whether it was down to myself getting involved or database team working within themselves.
With the day as a whole i feel that i was a bit out of place as when i asked people to help i got a bad response but seeing as im not apart of a group it can be expected.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Tuesday 11th March
After having stayed later than planned on Monday, it was back to trying to fix the same problem than before but yet we still couldn't add a placement to the database through Adam's code. Although after a lot of comparing of code and help from Sam, he managed to get that working.
Throughout the rest of the day i was helping others with errors on coding but mainly with Jason and trying to get the forgotten password code to work but to no avail.
With my role of the week to provide help to people on features I feel that I don't know enough of the coding to be able to help that much but i feel that this is a benefit to me as it means that i have to then search for how the errors need to be fixed and this will develop my knowledge on php and the other areas that are used within the features. It also helps me learn more about other peoples features and how the website is going to work, also it will help me when I come to create my feature in the 3rd week as i should have came across many of the errors that people have encountered.
Throughout the rest of the day i was helping others with errors on coding but mainly with Jason and trying to get the forgotten password code to work but to no avail.
With my role of the week to provide help to people on features I feel that I don't know enough of the coding to be able to help that much but i feel that this is a benefit to me as it means that i have to then search for how the errors need to be fixed and this will develop my knowledge on php and the other areas that are used within the features. It also helps me learn more about other peoples features and how the website is going to work, also it will help me when I come to create my feature in the 3rd week as i should have came across many of the errors that people have encountered.
Monday, 10 March 2008
First point of the day was to define the attributes for the relation that we would need for the timetable in the database. The attributes where defined by Paul and myself and emailed them to Anton to help with the development of the database.
Following this I helped others with the use of Php and Ftp. I feel that I was able to provide sufficient help with the errors people came across but there were also others that I needed to read up on which has also helped me as I may also come across these errors.
With the meeting that we had at 3 o'clock I gained a broader knowledge of what was happening with the development of each feature as I still found it a bit vague previously.
Following this I helped others with the use of Php and Ftp. I feel that I was able to provide sufficient help with the errors people came across but there were also others that I needed to read up on which has also helped me as I may also come across these errors.
With the meeting that we had at 3 o'clock I gained a broader knowledge of what was happening with the development of each feature as I still found it a bit vague previously.
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