Today our day started with the stand-up becoming easier and more informative at the same time. Our team is getting to know each-other and it feels great.
The bane of our existence has been implementing a file attachment feature. There is an existing one, but that just makes the decisions harder. Should we use the existing one? Should we use a hybrid? To even attempt to answer this, you have to understand the existing code. This is something that makes my head boil, as writing code is hard enough, but understanding why someone else has written their code in their own special way is just that extra nudge, that makes you want to take a breather for 15 minutes.
What can be worse is to struggle with a problem for the longest time and then find out you just mistyped the name by a character or forgot to pluralize a list and after an hour of searching you see it and a wave of relief washes over your followed by a tsunami of shame follows for making these dumb mistakes. Luckily the IDE catches many of them, but the mighty IDE cannot always save you.
To cool off, we had a nice little team game planned to grow as a team and see how we interact with each-other, when there is a lot of room for interpretation. The task was to decide what should happen with 4 people marooned on an island if they had built a ship, that would be only able to sustain 3 people. The limited information given was that those 4 people were : A shipwright, a doctor, a genius and an extremely wealthy individual.
I enjoyed the viewpoints my teammates and appreciated the reasoning behind them.
