Chronicles from our peeps.
The eighth week of my internship continued to build on the challenges I faced during the previous week, particularly in backend development and system debugging. While I had made progress earlier, this week offered more hands-on opportunities to strengthen my understanding, especially in areas like CouchDB queries and server-side techniques. Read more…
The week seventh of my internship focused heavily on improving and scaling the system based on feedback from previous tasks. I spent time carefully reviewing suggestions, studying server-side optimization techniques, and applying necessary fixes to enhance performance. Additionally, I supported a live event setup for the second time, ensuring the Read more…
Reaching the sixth week of my internship, I have gained a deeper appreciation for how technical expertise, critical thinking, and collaborative effort align to drive successful project outcomes. This week proved particularly rewarding as I engaged with a challenging development task, allowing me to enhance my front-end skills while learning Read more…
Week five of my internship brought a significant shift in experience from working with development tasks to supporting their use in a real-world event setting. This week involved both technical implementation and on-site execution, offering the opportunity to observe how digital systems are applied in live environments. From improving the Read more…
This week offered valuable insights into improving user experience through conditional logic, thoughtful naming practices, and collaborative refinement. Working through interface behavior and incorporating feedback from code reviews led to both technical growth and a deeper appreciation for team-oriented development. Balancing Logic with User Interaction A key focus was controlling Read more…
This week focused on refining the spell-check feature by integrating Google’s Generative Language API, improving backend functionality, and enhancing user experience. Several key challenges were addressed, leading to important learnings and system improvements. Securing API Key Integration like The initial phase involved setting up a secure API key retrieval process. Read more…
As I stepped into the second week of my internship, I found myself becoming more comfortable with my daily tasks and the work environment. During the first week, I gained a basic understanding of how work is done in the company and learned about GitHub and GitFlow through the provided Read more…
Starting my internship, I was introduced to various new technologies and workflows essential for web development. My primary focus was on understanding the methodologies, frameworks, and tools required for efficient project management. My first week was filled with many new ideas especially about version control systems and front-end development techniques. Read more…
This week, I mainly tied up loose ends and debugged. The issues were more fiddly than I thought they would be. Safari Issue #1 – Database Load Previously, during initialisation (log in), an API was used to estimate if there was enough storage to load the database in. This API Read more…
This week involved working on a mixture of not-too-big issues and features. The more substantial points I worked on includes: Access to Video Submission As I worked along displaying the video submission along with the marking sheet, some issues were revealed. The use of a YouTube video embed plugin limited Read more…