About
I am a senior undergraduate at University of California, Berkeley studying Computer Science. These pages serve as a showcase of completed and ongoing work, as well as a blog of bits of technical wisdom I've picked up along the way.
I'm actively looking for interesting projects to work on, for pay or otherwise, so feel free to get in touch with me!
First Sprint
Today at work, I sat in my first planning poker meeting. This was in preparation of our next 4 weeks of development time. We used the Planning Poker site to vote on suggested projects. I had read a little bit about user stories back in my Rails class, but the few times I tried practicing agile development methodologies were always met with whining and criticism. It's good to be at a place where people support this.
Dangerous Scaffolding
I did something bad today. It wasn't bad enough to destroy working customer instances, but it was enough to make all the dev team all up in a huff. The worst part of the whole experience was a) I didn't remember I was the one who nuked it, and b) it got nuked because of some crufty scaffolding and default behaviours.
Capify my App
After a complete Saturday of vegging out, I decided to accomplish something today. My initial target was to pull Craigslist rental listings for my housing app, but that led to me learning more about plugins, which somehow led me to reading about Capistrano. Yak shave, anyone?
Rails Webapp Engineering
The day after I came back from Australia, I started my new job at Coupa Software. I'm absolutely loving it at the moment because of the awesome people and the amount of software I'm learning. Here's just a few that I've picked up in my first week that I'd like to jot down.