Workshop 6 Scrum Report about teamesse HOT 4 OPEN

Scott King x2f2b
What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
I worked on deploying the website to Heroku, and pair programming the reactions feature in the Explore page.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
Deploying the application to Heroku was challenging because we have a websocket server running alongside the Express server. We ended up having to merge the websocket server and the express server so they could be deployed on the same host.

What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?
Adding a friends list, finalizing api endpoint to add pomodoro session to mongodb, help with landing page and responsiveness

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James Park (y3o8)
What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
In the past iteration, I worked on adding the chart component in our app to show the proportion of various subjects studied from the pomodoro sessions with the aggregated time data in the Subjects page.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
The major challenge encountered was creating the data chart with the aggregated data of the subjects and the time studied from a user's pomodoro sessions.

What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?
For this upcoming iteration, I plan to work on the app responsiveness and finalize the API endpoints for the data visualizations.

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David Chung d4n1b
What did you work on this past iteration (2 weeks)?
In the past iteration (2 weeks), I started with planning what were some of the ideal and realistic features we could implement to improve the social aspect of our application. I looked through what was available in terms of data and also edited our Mongoose Model to incorporate reactions for our statistics page. We implemented an additional reactions column in our statistics.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
The main challenges were encountered during the planning phase because I had to get input from all group members and plan for the direction of the social aspects to be reached by the end of the term. Particularly, remodeling the Mongoose Models and conversing with team members working on data visualizations.

What do you plan to work on for this coming iteration (2 weeks)?
In this coming iteration, I plan to work on the overall design and incorporate an responsive design to polish the application. In process, I will work on a landing page and perhaps improve the UX workflow.

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Anson Chung (m0j2b)

What did you work on the past iteration?
In the past iteration I added additional authentication functionality and more security to the login. The passwords are now hashed by a UserSchema pre-method before getting saved. We are no longer saving the raw string password.

What were any major issues/challenges you ran into?
A challenge I ran into was determining where the hash method should happen. I had to do research and figure out what the conventional way of handling a situation like this was. Testing and ensuring the behaviour was as expected was another challenge as well.

What do you plan to work on in this coming iteration (2 Weeks)?
For the coming iteration I plan to polish the sign in/sign up process and incorporate sound elements into the front end (button sounds and possibly a music player).

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