Engineering Elegance

Being Faithful

Last year, a previous intern had developed a system that helps to manage various events or performances in the competition. It’s called the competition management system (CMS for short). At that time, registration was done through Google Forms, and once the registration deadline has passed, all the participant registration details were collated to one spreadsheet that was fed as input to that system. Forward to this year, my system is expected to generate that spreadsheet when invoked. There are two Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

It’s Going To Take Time.

This week I have started working on my first task in the project hehe… I’m super happy this week because the real work has just begun after spending few weeks of studying. I experimental myself with the JavaScript source code since I have to make some modification to the front end part which is in the JavaScript. This is not easy since I never learned JavaScript before but hey life is about learning new things right? For this week, I have Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

Reliability

I talked about problems that I faced while developing last week but that is no fun to hear me complain. Now I am going to talk about what I have done so far in my client project. Developing a reliable system Given that the system I am developing is a competition registration system (we called it CRS for short), it is crucial to capture every significant data regarding the participants. As mentioned before, we utilized the use of webhooks in Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Let’s Do This

This week is quite slow for me since everything that I do seems not right. For this week, I should make sure that I understand the source code of the project that I will be handle later made by the previous interns so that I can see the flow of the project work. Dr. Shawn told me to take a look at the all source code to help me with the project and make me familiar with it. For this Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

Problems

In the world of software development, there is always problems. For developers, we may have problems using a certain third party tool, in which maybe it has quite a few bugs or is not configured the way we want it too, because these tools are made by other humans after all. Sometimes the problem stems from the developer himself or herself, such as lacking the understanding of a certain concept or unable to utilize the tools they are using. I Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

The Second Week

I have started this week, making sure that I completely understand the concepts of wt. Once i finished with wt, I need to understand dbo and how wt and dbo related to each other in web development. Dbo is an object-relational mapper for C++. Based on my study, it simplifies development as there is no code generation, no XML mapping definitions, no macro hacks and concise. In Dbo, there are two relations that very important which are the many-to-one relation Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

The 6th Week

This week was a major turning point for my project. What I had done for the previous week or so had to be thrown out of the window as the client decided to change their requirement. Here’s how it went down. On the first day of the week, I pretty much completed the basic flow of the project, or so I thought. When Dr Shawn pulled the code from the git repository, build it and then run the program on Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Long Road Ahead of Me

My whole week was occupied with me working on the layout and the design of the registration form. In the previous week, I did not focus on the whole design aspect of the form first, so when I showed Dr Shawn my progress on the project in the first day of the week, he was not impressed by its looks. He gave me a few suggestions on how to improve the structure and make it a bit more visually appealing, Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago

Hello

I stepped into AESTE on my first day not knowing what to expect. This was my first internship in the real world and all I was looking for was knowledge, but I gained so much just in one week. On the first day, I was welcomed and greeted by Dr Shawn at the office. He introduced the workplace and explained how things work around in AESTE.  He also guided me on how to login to the system and access to Read more

By Nadia Anuar, ago

All about the Users

So for this week all I mainly did was implementing the registration form itself as part of the client project. Design and layout at the moment is not of utmost importance, but to ensure that the required functionality is there. UX in the Online Store Before I dive into that, I’ll talk about the problems we had when extracting the data from a webhook. Differentiating specific products from other products in the online store. Extracting user information in the simplest Read more

By Gabriel Tan, ago