Day 3 — Danger Zone.

Hello blogging world!

Kia ora! (a Māori language greeting from back home)

This is my first blog ever… So please take it easy on me!

Like Ricky, I would like to give a shout out to our awesome fellow Pink Fishers! I consider myself to be really lucky to be in this team, and am loving every minute of it!

The day started off with a very tech savy stand up that google would even be jealous of. Chiaki was still ill, but she was able to join us via google hangouts.

Chiakis reaction after she was able to join our stand up via google hangouts

Objectives were more or less a continuation of yesterday — for the most part, Chris and I, trying to fix our continous delivery pipeline, while Reena and Ricky continue where they left off yesterday with the sign in/out features.

Peering over our computers, taking to our fellow team feels a bit like this…hence a “meerkat meetup”

Chris and I came to a realisation that we may have to start from scratch again. We did a quick “Meerkat meet up” with our team. Luckily they were happy for us to go ahead and delete the repo, because they had not done any work on it…Phew!

We made a plan of attack which included entering the ‘danger zone’ and deleting our repository. Once that was completed we started started to rebuild and we were back to a working product, we found a number of small issues were gone. Why? We are not entirely sure about that, but the fact it was working the way it should was celebrated with a well deserved high five.

Actual scenes of Chris and I, after bug fixing

After a well deserved lunch break, we looked at the Trello board and picked a easier task which we could take on. We managed to complete a task (add a timestamps with posts) and even smashed out some TDD code with it!

I felt it was a really successful day. Ricky and Reena were close to implementing the feature that they were working on, and Chris and I had managed to complete our goals before the days end.

We also managed to find out that some of our team members should stick to becoming aspiring devs (no basketball career for you Ricky!).

A final reflection: I haven’t worked with Rails that much to harness its real power. This is what I am really looking forward to and working with a great bunch of people is just icing on the cake.

Woooo!