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 resources. This week presented new challenges that pushed me to learn and grow. Updating to the Latest React Admin Framework One of my primary tasks this week was updating the 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. My work demanded exploration of Git collaboration tools alongside learning React Admin interface development and practicing structured workflow methods for projects. Learning Git and Version Control Before this internship, I 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 wasn’t supported in Safari, so the app didn’t work on Safari. At the start of the week, it was a quick fix to remove the code using the API. However, 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 us as responsive sizing wasn’t possible, neither was supporting videos from other non-YouTube platforms. Hence, after discussion, we decided to work with our initial method of displaying a plain marking Read more
After learning about Vue-related fundamentals, I started looking into the existing codebase for the app I will be working on. The app is used for controlling the flow and judging of a music competition. My current task focuses on the judging aspect of the competition, I will be tweaking the app to make it more user-friendly and suited for this year’s competition which will take place online due to COVID: Comment Display In previous years, judges watched the performances live, Read more
My main task for this internship will be to migrate an existing web application from Vue2 to Vue3, focusing on the front-end. The first week kicked off with learning some fundamentals: Version control – Git I’ve previously used Git across my university projects, and this was a great opportunity for me to build upon and fill in the gaps of my existing knowledge. I was able to further understand Git internals as well as less familiar operations such as re-basing. Read more
We have a number of sites that use webhooks, which were having trouble connecting to our back-end services. This problem only occurred recently as everything was working in the past. Searching for the specific error message, “cURL error 60: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” gave a number of different fixes for PHP. Essentially, configuring PHP to search for trusted certs. Unfortunately, none of the fixes worked. No matter how much reconfiguration was done for PHP, it Read more
This week was pretty stable and concluded with nearly finishing up all development related to the competition project. At the start of the week I altered my code to make all backend API calls pass through the Vuex store. This was done by making use of Vuex Actions, which is the only asynchronous method available in the Vuex store, and using it to perform the same operations that were performed in the Driver file from the Services folder. While this Read more
This week was spent finalizing the react admin work from last week and making minor changes to the main application. For the forward linking between resources in react admin I had gone off on a journey of creating a whole new workflow based on systemically typed new components with custom functions that would allow me to reference one document to another. After consultation with Dr. Shawn I was told that this approach is not only difficult but also unnecessary as Read more
Nothing trumps that feeling of seeing the results you so desire to see appear on screen. As the end of my internship period was approaching the stress started piling up on me, as nothing seemed to yield the results that I was looking for. However, this changed this week, with the use of MFCCs for timbre detection, the accuracy of the prediction of the model developed finally hit the peak that we were planning for. At the start of this Read more