Week 2 has been vastly encouraging in comparison to week 1. Though I don't feel that I have suddenly transformed into a coding ninja, my overall fluency in the system has easily tripled that of week 1's. I feel more confident about finding files, reading them, and understanding how they relate to one another.
The majority of my week was spent trying to add rolodex widgets to the VPN and FTP setup tool pages. Robert and I decided to take a pair programming approach, because we were basically assigned identical tasks, Robert handling the FTP Setup Tool, and myself handling the VPN Setup Tool. Apparently everyone dreads any tasks involving the word "rolodex," because every time I would mention that I was working on this, I would get a mischievous smirk or a knowing wince of pain. Luckily Joe Heth decided to make my life easier by making a universal RolodexLinkContact.php file which allowed for a one-to-many relationship between the rolodex and various types of contacts. Had it not been for this, I probably would STILL be working on this project!
A small amount of Thursday and most of Friday were spent on my current task, which is revamping the Replenishment Rollover Report. I had to create a reporter object from scratch in PHP, which I ended up enjoying very much. This was much more of the object-oriented type of work that I am used to doing, so it was much easier to understand. By the end of the day Friday, which came all too soon thanks to TF2, I had my reporter object functioning quite nicely and in need of just a few small tweaks. Overall, this has been my favorite project thus far, largely due to the fact that it has been my most successful and required the least amount of outside help due to the fact that Clearspace had very helpful and extensive documentation.
And now, I must bid adieu to week 2, as week 3 is already upon me!
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