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Moving on to Real Life

It's only a weekend to go now until I start at the BBC in their Software Engineering Graduate Scheme in Manchester, and I'm really looking forward to it. All of us on the

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 4 - R&R

Review Once again, this week was full of unexpected problems in part due to the technologies I'm using for the project. I realised I wasn't building the Ember application in the production environment,

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 4 - Planning

As the deadline is fast approaching, I need to get a move on. CRUD functionality for projects and user stories must be implemented first of all. Then, support for creating sprints must be

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 3 - R&R

Review Oh dear. What has happened? This sprint started 21 days ago, and I'm two weeks late posting this R&R. The Easter holidays were partly to blame for that, but I

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Major project

Major Project: Mid-Project Demonstration

This is a presentation that I gave to my Second Marker, explaining what my project is about and my development progress. I also gave a demonstration of the Ember application running. I've included

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Major project

Major Project: User stories page wireframes

Wireframes are important for exploring the way in which data is presented to the user, before a design for the page is thought up. In time for the Mid-Project Demonstration, I have prepared

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 3 - Planning

On Monday morning is the Mid-Project Demonstration with my project's Second Marker. I will be planning for that, and hope to get some work done in this sprint to have something pretty to

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 2 - R&R

Review Once again I didn't have much time this week as I was at an assessment centre for a role at the BBC (which went very well 😃), so that took away two days

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Major project

Major Project: Fun with Ember unit testing

'Fun' being ultra-sarcasm for 'not fun'. One thing that's 'nice' about Ember is that it uses QUnit for automated testing. Well... that genuinely is nice. Ember provides by default a fantastic testing infrastructure

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 2 - Planning

I demonstrated to my supervisor the login form that currently exists in the application, and explained the use of oauth2. For the next sprint, he suggested it would make sense to work on

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 1 - R&R

Review Much of this week was spent on the conference poster, but this sprint also focused on authentication. I used the Ember Simple Auth package for this. Initially, it was quite complex to

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Major project

Major Project: Conference poster

For the CS382 module, I was tasked to create a conference poster about my Major Project.

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 1 - Planning

Unfortunately, the last sprint took much longer than I hoped, due to reasons I mentioned in the retrospective. However, the last sprint involved much planning anyway, so this is where we get into

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Major Project: Sprint 0 - R&R

Review The first sprint is done! A staging server has now been set up using nginx, which can be found at smallscrum.joshtumath.uk. I have also laid out in a blog post

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Major project

Major Project: Determining the development environment

The main focus of my current sprint is to work out what environment I will be using for the implementation of SmallScrum. My criteria Server I would like to be able to run

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Major project

Major Project: Sprint 0 - Planning

Now it's time to really crack on with the development for the Major Project. I've decided to call the project Small Scrum as a working title (which is a bit shorter than Software

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Major project

Major Project: Almost ready to start development

What's done This week has been very busy for me, due to helping out with the Christian Union's mission week. However, I was able to get some work done: I received the conference

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Major project

Major Project: Scrum at Cimex Media

In my last update, I said that I have - to my surprise - discovered a conference proceeding that's directly related to my project! I did not expect there would be any academic

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University

Major Project: Laying the first steps

What's done My Outline Project Specification is now completed and submitted. I hope to have it hosted online somewhere soon. While searching for relevant papers, there was one I came across that was

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Major project

Major Project: Beginning the Outline Project Specification

What's done Last week, I've been doing a lot of preparatory work to get this project off the ground: Met up with my supervisor on Thursday to discuss a very rough draft of

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Major project

Major Project: Starting off

As of last week, I officially started my Major Project (dissertation) for my final year at University. During this semester, I have almost all of my time dedicated to my project, which is

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Programming

Should Software Engineering be like Law and Medicine?

One of the developers I follow on Twitter who works on the Rust compiler posted an interesting thought today: Software engineers are too nice: we should copy doctors and lawyers and make it

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Group project

Group project: And it's over!

And with that, the group project is over. I got the group together last Friday to work on the final documentation. Integration and testing week proved how much the group enjoy and find

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Group project

Group project: Beginning the final report

Following integration and testing week, work on the final report began. My plan was to quickly write the team’s performance reports (as required for me to do in the QA documents), but

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Group project

Group project: coding week - day 5

Coding week is finally over! My alarm glitched this morning, so I didn’t wake up until 9:30am and didn’t get to the computer room until half an hour later. However,

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