A Trial by Fire - Initial Exposure to Bower, NPM, and require.js Modules
Starting the first week in any place of work tends to be chaotic to say the least - settling into the expected workflow and output, setting up your environment, and getting to know your team members,...
View ArticleThe Plugin, the Sprint, the Speech, and the Workshop
To use a word such as 'eventful' for this week would likely be the understatement of the century. In the short span of 5 days, the Webmaker team at CDOT managed to implement and demo a barebones...
View ArticleServer-Sent Events and Bootstrap Tinkering
Last week was definitely substantial in terms of activity. In the pursuit of surprise, however, summary and descriptions of my work on the current sprint will be completed on this upcoming week's blog...
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The Acclivity that Separates Programming from Development
Concluding this week was the presentation of Webmaker team's first completed two-week-long sprint which showcased the initial integration of makedrive with filer and its initial connection with...
View ArticleMakedrive Unit Testing
In most projects of similar breadth, understanding the big picture is paramount in the search of perfecting the design and function of the system itself. This week was crucial in my comprehension of...
View ArticleTo Websockets or not to Websockets
With project lead David Humphrey currently on vacation and senior team member Ali Al Dallal called away to Vancouver with tertiary work from Mozilla, there was no shortage of work to be done or tasks...
View ArticleThe Wonders of Mozilla Proper
Last week, the team managed to finish the functionality for bi-directional syncing with MakeDrive on the browser, that being a huge milestone in the Nimble project. Helping in the design of the front...
View ArticleNimble and MakeDrive's Future
As expected, with the help of the Webmaker team, I managed to finish a functional proof of concept implementation of the Websocket authentication module that Alan Glickman, Kieran Sedgwick and I...
View ArticleRealizing the Vision and Beyond
I couldn't find a better way to present this besides show and recommend anyone reading this to check out this YouTube Link. Everything this team has been working on for the past 2+ months now...
View ArticleBug Squashing, Issue Triaging, and Nimble UI Enhancements
Communal elation in the group is still very apparent after the functional demo of Nimble and Makedrive working together, and we are all focusing that positive energy to keep a rigorous pace in order to...
View ArticleQuery Strings and more Unit Tests
While front-end work is always fun and demonstration-friendly more frequently than functional coding, all those pretty icons, animations, and colour schemes wouldn't be very useful without any backend...
View ArticleDoes anybody remember unit tests? But also a wicked kickin' readme!
The week that ended July (and from the weather patterns, ended summer as we know it also) was a little off-balance in terms of rhythm, with project lead David Humphrey away on vacation, his presence is...
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