Here is a tale of commits starting from the first initial commit, up to the production release commit. Full disclosure: these are not complete commit logs, I have tailored out any work-specific text. These are also not all of the commits in the log, but only the highlights.
So, here’s the problem, I’ve been tasked to build a web application. They need it “A.S.A.P.” aka “we need it yesterday”. I’m up for the challenge, I do my research, get the requirements, pick my tools, and off we go.
commit fc230bbd88e488224145e2dcb8d3522aebbd706d
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Tue Jan 7 11:20:48 2014 -0500
initial commit
It’s a Python Django application. My second place choice was to use Play Framework, and honestly, I would have loved to use it, but I would just be learning Scala and the stress to have the application ASAP resonated. I know Python, I’ve built web applications in Django before. Let’s do this.
commit e65ef58f6f32c39a7b345f137c899479485cdc04
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Wed Jan 8 09:44:32 2014 -0500
working on the bus commit
I’ve been having issues with Thrift. We use Thrift to provide service API calls for cross-functional teams to use. Thrift is not documented very well. Learning how to utilize Thrift to pull data and store data is taking up too much of my time. It’s a blocking item, pushing all of my other tasks further back.
commit 61954bbfb2738eba93c8b270fd2dadcce4c99207
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Fri Jan 10 03:42:20 2014 -0500
working on page detail view, not quite working (404'ing)
- time for sleep
commit d62a212b3d44836258d82fa783f7d9388ee27493
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Thu Jan 9 03:18:19 2014 -0500
specific pages are loading in a table now.
-- i should sleep
I want to get this app done. I’ve got some strength in me to pull some late-night coding sessions.
commit 926607874dfe5ad62064a990e29a27c7d3087367
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Mon Jan 13 20:08:45 2014 +0000
- updated settings and models for running on beta box
I’ve been going back and forth with another developer. I have downtime while he is working on fixing things on his end. I set up a beta server to host my application instead of running this on my local machine. My git logs now reflect GMT time since I am not working on my local machine any longer. Note: convert the time to be in GMT -5 to see the actual times I’ve been working.
commit bd4ce1a3029fd412a3ae9e4465645a77405d729d
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Fri Jan 17 19:00:01 2014 +0000
quick lunch commit -- loading data from thrift successfully
commit dd8d1d209a483bfa32e51203969bc9a83c2a7903
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Fri Jan 17 09:07:41 2014 +0000
falling asleep commit -- working on pulling data in from thrift now
Things are getting better. I’m getting the hang of Thrift finally.
commit c6671bbc0ad5aafd41f84096fcdacd59c2466366
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Tue Jan 21 19:30:03 2014 +0000
v0.1-beta-rc1
- functioning; saves and pulls data
Looks like I have a working beta version. I had to do a lot of AJAX work from this weekend up until January 21.
commit 01695b45c3db9ac521952f6ed9467907e7ad5675
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Tue Jan 21 22:54:33 2014 +0000
on the bus commute! wow this snow is horrible! i'm _still_ not home yet.
Working on the commute to or from the office has become a normal routine. But this time, I really had to since it was the only thing keeping me sane. Total commute time due to snow: 4 hours 20 minutes.
commit 721aa0881e8039925825049e8d3ad2907226171b
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Sun Jan 26 05:49:53 2014 +0000
WORKING LDAP authentication!
- need to make it pretty and add @login_required decorators everywhere
One of the requirements was to be able to snap into our company’s LDAP server so users won’t need to remember another password. If anything, I could roll out authentication using Django just for the time being. But luckily, just one weekend worth of hacking, I was able to write a custom LDAP authentication module for Django.
commit 01318875cb0f0adaebe7d0d03fd6d38ca8a36593
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Mon Jan 27 08:13:32 2014 +0000
i should go to sleep - fixed data models
commit a161c8b476c33dc2330d357143d9a2a8c94dbb79
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Tue Jan 28 12:06:23 2014 +0000
Thrift saving seems to be working properly now... it's 7am...
Having Thrift issues certainly did slow down the process.
commit 767f9c0796804d3fbca38db0fd0cac2c1bc746b2
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Tue Jan 28 22:11:10 2014 +0000
production settings.py
commit 3cbb95e1fa3f7a38e9de8d8d4f392944e5e0e52a
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Wed Jan 29 19:57:58 2014 +0000
optimized view for pages
- LEFT JOIN
- limited results to 100 until pagination
We did a live beta to demo to our end users. I like these since I get to hear user feedback. But on the other hand, I really got to hear user feedback! A flood of changes were requested and some of them were done. Others, entered in as a feature request for the next iteration.
commit 8a10107c9d3b9ce4ea2ed2d4255b2f6113ae5c7c
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Thu Jan 30 23:51:02 2014 +0000
publishing properly
- TODO carousel json
I now started working on publishing output. I can see the checkered flag.
commit b8ab872dbcb464c63f4b6d260d5a81e9448d1e4f
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Fri Jan 31 01:13:18 2014 +0000
v0.1 - publishing seems to be working properly
I made it. I’ve deployed everything I need to production. It’s a barebones application that functions. Any further refinements will be handled with maintenance releases.
commit 53554dffeac07a86e9d62791178ca15126877887
Author: Adrian Cruz
Date: Fri Jan 31 17:21:03 2014 +0000
v0.1.1 - maintenance release - bad sql query
- it was late, i was rushing, everything all looked the same
I’m technically off on holiday. I checked in on email though almost every half hour. I got an email about a couple of bugs. I was able to send over a solution via email for one bug. I VPN’d in and made some changes for the second.
## This is NOT The End
I have obviously got some more work to be done. The code base for a fairly well-designed system is now in place. All that remains is to make some fancy user design changes, optimizations, and of course some general code clean up!