Meeting notes

August 28, 2012

• Played a little Starcraft and Diablo 3
• Mentioned that the summer reading assignment was Clean Code
• Went over syllabus
• Discussed possible projects (names, urls, ...)
• Looked at previous LMU CMSI 401 projects
• Watched cleancoder rationale video

August 30, 2012

• Finalized name - wutup -- and decided to look for domain wutupwith.us
• Sketched out use cases
• Did some architecting
• Talked about UML (a little bit)
• Watched Episode 1 of Clean Code
• Looked at last year's meeting notes
• Went over pros and cons of GAE, decided to use it
• Assignment: Review github repo (code and wiki) of last year's project, Ktah

September 4, 2012

• Set up wiki
• Enhanced the README
• Talked a little about Markdown
• Discussed webservice and iOS/android native apps
• Reviewed Goto and How to write good code XKCD
• Discussed Epic (parent) and User Story formatting and inclusion into RallyDev
• Check out RallyDev stories and tasks plus real life examples from CityGrid
• Agnes - "you broke the build!": Don't check in broken changes!!!
• Agile development : sprints, user stories and tasks
• Discussed the [Agile Software Development Manifesto] (http://agilemanifesto.org)
• Discussed sw research/prototypes/starter that Toal wrote

September 6, 2012

• Video of The Power of Motivation
• Architecture discussion
• Marc arrived for the last 20 minutes of class
• History of the Internet
• http protocol requests and responses
• http status codes

September 11, 2012

• Pull git repo!!! Toal default starter project
• What is a web service review
• Discussed technologies: GAE, Maven, Spring, Jersey, JaxB/Jackson, JUnit, Mockito, H2, Tomcat, Cargo
• Sam showed up late at 11:03am, Marc still not here.
• Maven goals in default life cycle: validate, compile, test, package, integration_test, verify, install, deploy.
• Http response codes review
• URI design
• Review POM
• Application Architecture
• Reviewed event object and event resources.
• Marc never showed up.

September 13, 2012

• How to run all tests except integration test
• Sam showed at 11:03
• Discuss objects
• Tangent discussion of Date programming
• Marc arrives at 11:30am...
• Major rewrite of event object.

September 18, 2012

• Discuss standup procedure
• Tyler found a Facebook library
• Lets do the standup.

September 20, 2012

• Held first standup
• Rich ran the Rally board
• Everyone had stories completed except Marc
• Revisited architecture
• Was a category class required? A location class?
• How should we handle events that have multiple occurrences and span multiple locations?
• Developed new UML class diagram
• Discussed the scope of use cases
• Reiterated that UML was not for detailed blueprinting, but only for (1) conceptual design when done early, or (2) "As-built" documentation when done after coding
• Created stories for Sprint 2 and tasked them out

September 25, 2012

• Review grading procedures
• Sam arrived on time but Eric was late
• Marc isn't here...
• Grades based on: Code Reviews, Databases, Dev/Prod/QA, Manual testing?
• Code review is based on Toal looking, reviewing code and fixing inline with annotations.
• Reviewed Eric's USER object and tests in class... he need to add toString() method.
• Marc arrived at 11:30am
• Tests are always INDEPENDENT!!!!!!!
• Reviewed manual testing and integration tests.
• Discussed CARGO, H2 and SPRING.

September 27, 2012

• Wutup! No one took notes today on what we did?

October 2, 2012

• A little bit of contention and arguing because the build was in a state of unit tests pass, integration tests failed
• 10 minutes in, KIN LANE SHOWED UP!
• Great discussion as Kin talked about:
• the business of APIs
• the history of APIs
• the API ecosystem
• who is doing what in the API world
• himself
• the U.S. government API strategy
• authentication and authorization, and OAuth
• the importance of having consumed APIs before setting out to write one's own
• We discussed our project with Kin
• Kin even went over design choices for endpoints with a few students
• Marc never showed up

October 4, 2012

• Discussed our wallowing project, how to get unstuck
• Reviewed domain objects and schema (that RB and Dr. Toal worked on)
• Reviewed architecture posted to project wiki

October 9, 2012

• Reviewed updated domain schema
• Marc arrived at 11:07, yay!
• Code review where Dr. Toal took some of our code and made it so much cuter:
• Learned that toString is used for logging and debugging, so we can omit null values
• ToString methods should always be at the bottom of the class, per company standard
• "Getters before setters" - Dr. Toal
• Null tests should be done in the model classes and not at the dao level
• Debugged.
• Discussed whether models should store related objects or just the object IDs.
• Learned that example.com is reserved for documentation purposes and can always be used in tests

October 11, 2012

• Wutup! No one took notes today on what we did?

October 16, 2012

• Mellow, low-key working day.
• Guest speaker: Rebecca Stillman from ZEFR talked about her company, her industry, and talked about the upcoming hackathon.

October 18, 2012

• Wutup! No one took notes today on what we did?

October 23, 2012

• Wutup! No one took notes today on what we did?

October 25, 2012

• Made QueryBuilder unit tests made in class because Andy didn't follow TDD.
• Reviewed how services and impls should be separated.
• Reviewed Mockito and how to do service unit tests.
• Reviewed changes to code made by Dr. Toal.
• Learned that when using @QueryParam it's good to always get String so Jax-RS doesn't try to handle incorrect types; takes away control of errors.
• Assigned new tasks for next iteration:
• Finish migration from PUT to PATCH.
• Rebuild QueryBuilder from Dr. Toal's QueryBuilder Wish List.
• Create a new Pagination class.
• Learned that Mustache makes logic go away by doing things like:

<head>
  <script src="https://raw.github.com/janl/mustache.js/master/mustache.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <div id="message"></div>
  <script>
    var view = {
      title: "Joe",
      calc: function () {
        return 2 + 4;
      }
    };

    document.getElementById("message").innerHTML = Mustache.render("{{title}} spends {{calc}}", view);
  </script>
</body>

October 30, 2012

• Standup Reports:
• Tyler: Refactored geocoding system. Created a GoogleGateway that can be independently mocked. Added lots of tests. Misc. Refactoring.
• Andy: Not much. Ready to blast out a new, or integrate an existing, SQL builder.
• Sam: Research client side stuff. Chose Apache Wicket. Major implementation push.
• Allyson: Client mockups done. Going to research Bootstrap.
• Rich: Will be getting up to speed.
• Marc: Android client. Work is progressing. Google Maps integration done. IntelliJ to Eclipse migration took some time.
• Eric: Implemented patch for Event / User. Work needs to be done on query builder and queries for resources / domain classes.
• Sam went over the client.
• Discussion of rebasing. Yes, we had to do it. :(
• By Nov 8th, have data displayed.

November 1, 2012

• Short standup.
• The class broke into groups.
• Client group (Sam and Allyson) did some planning.
• Tyler filled Rich in with a grand tour.
• Marc went solo on Android work; had trouble with his laptop.
• Eric and Andy did some work on the service, including an SQL builder.

November 6, 2012

• In class exercise of a major refactoring effort.

November 8, 2012

• Guest lecturer: Aghyan Alzuabi on Agile Project Management (was well received).

November 13, 2012

• Marc committed no changes to repo, showed up for late for class.
• Fixed broken build - tests failed due to event id already existed when attempting to create new event. Discussed that we should have auto id generation/assignment in event factory.
• Sam Bugged: Debug why DateTimes being returned from H2 are missing hours, minutes or seconds, Eric solved by changing rs.getDate to rs.getTimestamp.
• Add logging to the project, running tomcat under cargo so where is the log file being generated? Configured a log4j properties file for console.
• Discussed how client knows you are logged in without service session support.

November 15, 2012

• Wutup? No one took notes for this day.

November 20, 2012

• Guest speaker from LMU Entrepreneurship Club, who has also himself founded a couple companies.

November 27, 2012

• Bobby Tables (SQL Injection) Lecture
• Reviewed how SQL statements are compiled (prepared) and why query parameters prevent injection attacks
• Talked about how autocomplete works
• Searched for information on autocomplete in Android
• Class exercise on fixing code that was giving a 500 when it should have given a 400
• Showed that nearly all POST, PUSH, and PATCH methods were missing this validation
• Discussion on moving validation from resource classes to a separate validator
• Need logging for querybuilder... Andy to do and already did!

November 29, 2012

• Rally dev stand up
• Marc to enter his tasks in Rally under user stories
• Client questions about creating events without an existing venue.
• Venue must be created first, due to db constraints.
• Usage of HEAD, gives back response without body.
• Decided to kill category functionality, not enough time.
• Discussion surrounding client consistency and the web service.
• Discussion of the prezi content.
• Tighten up service and client Use Cases
• Check every end point from client
• More aggressive logging
• add Authentication, auth and https

December 4, 2012

• Review the status of project
• Can we adjust scope of the project?
• kill categories
• kill event comments and venue comments
• Sam gave UI demo
• Michael Licht (ex EA) came to speak with class.