Week: 07/26
Overview of Things Learned:
- Technical Area - Discourse Codebase, Theme Development for Discourse, Javascript (Ember), Ruby
- Tools - Asana, Trello, Discourse Theme CLI, Github Organization, Google Calendar and Groups
- Soft Skills - Summarizing technical guides succinctly, delegating tasks through Trello and Asana, outlining the timeline for the project
Achievement Highlights
- Creating Asana and Trello Boards to help organize and disseminate information to the team
- Learning about the Discourse Codebase and fully installing the discourse codebase
- Creating and presenting slide decks summarizing important technical concepts about discourse, JavaScript, Ruby and GitHub for the team
Meetings Attended
- Planning Meeting 07/26
- Github/Self-Assessment Meeting 07/27
- Pathway Leads Meeting 07/28
- Discourse Theme Development Intro/Review 07/29
- Industry Mentor Meeting 07/30
- Fs leads Planning Meeting 07/30
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Split into subteams, setting up the Github development environment for each subteam
- Have each subteam begin developing their feature, first searching for the code that they want to hook into in the Discourse Codebase
- Override the code in the Discourse codebase to produce our desired effect.
- Begin brainstorming for our next set of theme features we wish to add
Tasks Done
- Created Trello Boards
- Created resources explaining technical skills
- Split up into subteams and created GitHub repos for collaboration
Week: 08/03
Overview of Things Learned:
- Technical Area - Discourse Codebase, Theme Development for Discourse, Javascript (Ember), HTML, CSS
- Tools - Trello, Discourse Theme CLI, Discourse Theme Creator, Github Organization
- Soft Skills - Fostering brainstorming and dividing the project up into smaller tasks and delegating to subteams through Trello
Achievement Highlights
- Split the team into three subteams
- Set up three github repositories for each subteam initialized with empty themes
- Investigated the like and review system, trying to figure out how it was added
Meetings Attended
- Split into Subteam Meeting 08/03
- FS Team 2 Meeting 08/05
- Weekly Recap 08/07
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Continue working on developing our features further identifying the roadblocks that we’re facing and how to overcome them
- Look into getting access to the stemaway codebase to some extent
Tasks Done
- Made three github repos for each subteam
- Investigated how the like system works and presented to team
Week: 08/10
Overview of Things Learned:
- Technical Area - Discourse Codebase, Theme Development for Discourse, Javascript (Ember), HTML, CSS
- Tools - Trello, Discourse Theme CLI, Discourse Theme Creator, Github
- Soft Skills - Fostering brainstorming and dividing the project up into smaller tasks and delegating to subteams through Trello, explaining elevator pitches
Achievement Highlights
- Complete development of a theme-component that darkens the category boxes on hover
- Begin work on the navbar, splitting up the features of it to be developed
- Set up the coffee chat networking event for FS Team 1 and FS Team 2
- Worked with Debaleena to restore the timestamp feature to posts
Meetings Attended
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/10
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/12
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/14
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Pivot our development away from current ideas to the NavBar
- Split Navbar development among the subteams
- Get access to a Stem-Away staging site to test our code on
Tasks Done
- Made three github repos for each subteam
- Investigated how the like system works and presented to team
Week: 08/17
Overview of Things Learned:
- Technical Area - Discourse Codebase, Theme Development for Discourse, Javascript (Ember), Widgets, HTML, CSS
- Tools - Trello, Discourse Theme CLI, Discourse Theme Creator, Github
- Soft Skills - Working collaboratively in small teams to develop
Achievement Highlights
- Add the messages widget onto the main NavBar by creating a custom widget that is added to the header icons
- Remove the notification, bookmarks, and messages icons from underneath the profile button
Meetings Attended
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/17
- Subteam 3 Kickoff Meeting 08/17
- Subteam 3 Kickoff Meeting 08/18
- Subteam 3 Daily Recap Meeting 08/18
- Subteam 3 Wed Kickoff Meeting 08/19
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/19
- Subteam 3 Thurs Kickoff Meeting 08/20
- RunTimeTerror Meeting 08/21
Goals for the Upcoming Week
- Combine all the branches into the dev and master branch
- Go through the code with James and test it on the Stem-Away website
- Get ready for the final presentation
Tasks Done
- Finished up the messages widget
- Ran daily goal setting and recap meetings