This is my second week of internship at Aeste. Last week, I spent most of my time learning a JavaScript framework — Vue which is essential in developing reactive web applications. This week, I’ll be applying the knowledge in practical, which I believe is the way for me to improve! As a brief context, my task in this internship is to work on a web application. This web application handles the scoring system of a music competition. The application is Read more…
“The only way to grow is to step out of your comfort zone.” I am Kai Jun and I am currently pursuing a degree in Electronics and Computer Science. This is my first week as an intern in Aeste and I am tasked to develop a web application during my eight weeks internship period. Previously, I barely have any exposure in the real-world software development industry, with my knowledge in this field all obtained academically. I always feel that Read more…
I spent most of the time this week deploying two of our projects, P3 and S3. I started off with P3 first, since it was one of the previous projects where I contributed to its development. But while testing out the deployment, some bugs were already discovered. This is bad, since I am short of time. Regardless, I made the most out of my time left trying to fix the more severe ones. Dr Shawn also gave me some suggestions Read more…
I hoped on back to the certificate management application project again this week, to do some cleanup, adding a bit of documentation and test its deployment using FastCGI as well. Fortunately, the application still works as expected when deployed as a FastCGI process. We tested it out with the entire flow for individual certificates, from buying a new subscription on the actual WooCommerce store, to downloading the PKCS#12 using the link provided in an email sent by the application. We Read more…
Continuing on from last week, I managed to finish up what I have left to do, i.e putting the participant’s contact email in the TSV output as well as testing out the POP3 implementation. Fortunately, everything went as expected. However, there were a few more additions that needed to be done for CRS. One of it includes having to place quotes around each participant’s NRIC number. This is because when the TSV file gets imported into a spreadsheet program such Read more…
This week I hoped on back into a project that I did during my internship here, i.e the Competition Registration System (CRS). Basically, some changes and enhancements are needed to be made, and the registration period for the competition starts next month. Some enhancements include splitting up the composer’s name and the repertoire to two separate text fields instead of one, since a lot of registrants forgot to put the composer’s name last year. Last year’s registration also had the Read more…
Just as I was continuing to test my current server application, I bumped into another problem. This time it’s a little tricky, as it is something that only happens to Windows, while the other operating systems I tested (i.e Linux and Mac OS) worked perfectly fined. The problem this time concerns renewed certificates. In such cases, the server application only sends back a renewed PEM certificate, since the corresponding private key would have been bundled into a PKCS#12 for first Read more…
This is my twelfth and final week as an intern at Aeste Works. Continuing from last week, I was getting bandwidth and network measurements for only 1 interval after connecting to the TCP iperf server on the default TCP port. Dr Shawn came to advise and review my code to see what could cause this behavior and found that sys_now function which returns the current time in milliseconds to perform TCP house-keeping tasks might be the reason why. The sys_now function Read more…
This week marked the end of my internship and I was really grateful to have Dr Shawn as my supervisor. I would like to summarise my learning experience over this 12 weeks of internship. Git Git was a version control system to note the progress of software development. Instead of passing codes using external hard disk (some companies still practiced this method and it was undesirable), Git allowed developers to distribute and analyse codes more easily. I used to have Read more…
Not much to be said for this week. However, as I have mentioned in my previous blog post, I have decided to just use RSA key pairs when generating client certificates. I was finally able to move on to other important stuff, such as setting up the Woocommerce web store. At least it wasn’t such a headache for this part, as I have already set up products in the Bitnami WordPress VM which I was testing with before. Now is Read more…