Friday

So, day 5 came and we’re quite optimistic about our daily goals. Even though the day was very short, having an early retro and January graduating, we planned a lot: looking into jQuery and deployment, creating a new table for Likes and of course continuing with building our comment and like features. We swapped pairs and started working on implementing likes(Irfan and Antonio) and comments (Ammar and I).

Both pairs ended up struggling with the complexity of implementing the new features. Antonio and Irfan, in order to implement the likes (restricted to one like per post by user), had to sort out the functionality of associate user with posts. Working on this feature took longer than expected, an they felt they underestimated the complexity of the task, however they did manage to feature test for first name and last name of the associate user.

Ammar and I were going through the same process. We first thought that connecting a comments database with the posts database would be our biggest challenge and we also tried to sort out the nested comments problem. Soon we had to realise though that rendering the comments together with the post was our real problem to solve. After a great start at the beginning of the week when I felt like more energised than ever, I woke up Friday morning exhausted and having a brick wall between my brain and the information it needed to proceed. It was only Ammar’s merit that we managed to make some progress and show the same comment with the posts view.

All in all, it was a short day and our goals were very ambitious. We had small successes but could not meet out daily objectives.