Sprint Retrospective 6

The final stretch. As we wind down and tie up lose ends we look back on what we did during this Sprint. This Sprint was exactly that though the end of it all and the cleaning up of lose ends. We spent most of the time working on CSS items, and finalizing what we had...

Apprenticeship Patterns: Learn How To Fail

You can’t be a good winner if you have never lost. That’s where this pattern aims to address, learn how to fail is exactly that. About learning how to fail and taking that opportunity as a learning platform to grow from. Failure especially in coding is bound to happen, and the lead up to that...

Apprenticeship Pattern: Rubbing Elbows

At some point in your career you will approach a plateau. How you deal with it and get past it is a real challenge and something that many programmers will reach in their careers.The problem that Rubbing Elbows presents is "Your productivity has reached a plateau, your learning is stagnating, and you have the feeling...

Sprint 5 Retrospective

This sprint started with a lot of frustration but ended with some relief. At the start of our sprint we decided to refocus on a component instead of working on the backend. This included almost restarting everything and researching whole new topics that need to be used. With research what we discovered is that the...

Sprint Retrospective 4

Team Tapmah had a rough go of it this sprint. We started the sprint very optimistic that we would be able to get a few services mocked using nock and working. However as we worked on the project we soon started to develop a sense of confusion and concern. We took the time to trace...

Apprentice Pattern: Expand Your Bandwidth

I work for a cable company that provides internet and a hot topic is always internet. People always accuse us of throttling or limiting their bandwidth. The issue that would result in is would be slower access to the internet. The word bandwidth being a trigger word I picked it out of the list of...

Apprenticeship Pattern: Expose Your Ignorance

This pattern I chose was something that jumped off the page at me. IGNORANCE was the word that captured my attention, but what kept me reading was how interesting the pattern is. Exposing your ignorance means owning up or confronting the area of your jobs that you might not be good at. It take a...

Sprint 3 Retrospective

At the beginning of the third sprint we had some direction on what we were going to do finally. Of all the components we looked at we began to find the most interest in the bottom navigation bar. Our plan was to look at what might be needed to accomplish this component, and what direction...

Apprenticeship Pattern: Practice Practice Practice

Something we are taught as kids is that practice makes perfect. We are taught this so that we don’t feel bad about failing at first and that the end goal is to be “perfect” at your objective. That is what this pattern begins to explain in terms of the programming apprentice. Growing as a programmer...

Sprint 2 Retrospective

In Sprint 2 we didn’t exactly have tasks to work on or complete. The issue with this is we didn’t really know where to focus our attention. A lot of our spare time was researching testing, and making sure everyone’s servers were working. Once we had the servers working we had no additional reasons to...