Thomas Personal Log

Week 1 (Aug 29 - Sept 2): Uploaded the existing code for Fantasy DJ to the class repo, as well as met with the team and our client (Steve Rubin). In addition to meeting, we discussed some ideas for moving forward with the project.

Week 2 (Sept 5th - 9th): Met with the team on Friday and discussed stylistic options for moving forward with FantasyDJ.

Week 3 (12th - 16th): Other than meeting with the group to finish up milestone 5, I didn't do anything this week.

Week 4 (19th - 23rd): Updated the readMe to reflect the new team roster, including some of the folks who helped build the current iteration of the project.

Week 5 (26th - 30th): Met with our client as a group, as well as met with Vidal on the 26th.

Week 6 (October 3rd - 7th): Met with my group and continued work on the application. More specifically we began working on milestone 7.

Week 7 (10th - 14th): Had our meeting with Vidal on the 10th and went over our detailed design for the application. We also discussed ways in which we would more forward both stylistically as well as features that we plan to offer. I wrote up the initial requirement list with the input of the rest of the team and added it to the wiki page which was then formatted by Philip.

Week 8 (17th - 21st): Didn't really do a whole bunch this week. Briefly discussed ideas about how to proceed with the scoring parameter of the competition.

Week 9 (24th - 28th): Met with Dr. Vidal on on the 24th and discussed milestone 8 and how to actually implement the UML document into our program. I need to go back and make changes to the requirement page to reflect the minutia of what we are trying to contractually accomplish.

Week 10 (31st - 4th): Met with the group and successfully downloaded and built the project. From here I laid out a basic look of the project, which consisted of a grid to contain all of the necessary elements on the homepage.

Week 11 (7th - 11th): Met with Vidal and discussed how we were actually going to move forward with the creation of the project as we are behind other groups. I was tasked with working on the search functionality.

Week 12 (14th - 18th): I seem to be having trouble with getting github to work correctly, at times it works exactly as intended and others it has required me to wipe the slate clean and create another clone because I cannot for the life of me figure out what I did wrong. Partially assisted Philip in the creation of the search functionality.

Week 13 (21st - 25th): Did not get much done as I was traveling out of town for thanksgiving as well as being sick for the majority of the week. However, I did make minor changes to the overall look of the project by changing the look how we things were done on the home screen.

Week 14 (28th - 3rd): Missed the meeting with Dr. Vidal due to being quite sick. Have still not made much progress.

Week 15 (5th - 9th): Last week of classes. We presented at demo day and did pretty well. I'm excited to continue working on the app over the break and into the new semester.

---------------- Semester 2 ---------------------

Week 1 (January 16th - 20th): Met with Vidal for the first time this semester and briefly discussed some plans for how we are going to move forward.

Week 2 (January 23rd - 27th): Met with my group on the 24th to work on the project as a team. Sydney and I are working on getting the scoring for users. I worked on getting the email from the spotify object that is returned when logging in and then adding it to the database for validation purposes.

Week 3 (January 30th - Feb 3rd): I have been working on input validation for our forms, and demo'd that for Dr. Vidal at our meeting. As well as adding an email field into the database and making it populate when a user signs in so I can begin working on league mechanics. I also split the player details page into two separate pages/views in order to remove the ability to add songs to the opponents playlist. Alongside this, I also quickly threw together an about page on the tab bar which gives a brief explanation of the apps purpose and how to use it.

Week 4 (Feb 5th-10th): I didn't get a whole bunch done this week. I added the album artwork to the player details page.

Week 5 (Feb 13th-17th): Worked on making album artwork actually look good as well as started looking into previewing songs from spotify.

Week 6 (Feb 20th-24th): Successfully got a song to preview, however I am having issues getting it to do it dynamically.

Week 7 (Feb 27th-3rd): Got song preview to work both inside of our application, as well as taking the user to a spotify page where the preview will play. Also fixed the album artwork issue where it would display the artwork for the last song in the stack.

Week 8 (March 6th - 10th): Spring Break

Week 9 (March 13th - 17th): Got feedback from the beta release, and have begun working on some of the issues like expanding preview capabilities and such.

Week 10 ( March 20th - 24th): Missed the meeting with Vidal, however I am told that it went well and we are progressing nicely.

Week 11 ( March 27th - 31st): Have been busy with outside projects, however I have made progress with creating a ubiquitous preview of songs. I hope to get to fixing the album placeholder images as well.

Week 12 ( April 3rd - 7th): Still working on preview of songs within search, as well as a few other small features in the app. Looked into the group that we were assigned, will build and test soon.

Week 13 ( April 10th- 14th): RC1 seems to have been a success, and testing on Gamecock study has commenced. Initially I am having trouble running their app and running into a bunch of issues. I am going to attribute this to my emulator, and update this entry upon further review.

Week 14 ( April 17th- 21st): We didn't get too many issues added to our repo during QA. I still had trouble logging into the application and added an addendum to Julia's issue referencing that.

Week 15 ( April 24th- 28th): Didn't do much of anything this week.

Week 16 ( May 1st): Gave our final capstone presentation. I think it went pretty well.