Today, I went down to the Chicago office to work with Doug and Li-Hsuan. It looks like I'll be working with them for about a week or so. We had a quick stand-up meeting where I was introduced to the client. Li-Hsuan and I were assigned a couple of stories while Doug worked on a different story. Right off the bat, we had a bit of trouble configuring IntelliJ, but were able to resolve them. We started by creating tests and do some refactoring. I tried to mimic what the Bobs did in the bowling session. I really wanted the tests (and code) to be readable and clear. I think in the end, we ended up with tests that read nicely. We also started applying the Strategy pattern for a particular story we were working on. This was a pattern I recently learned about! It was so exciting to be applying the knowledge I've learned this week. I look forward to working more on the story tomorrow.
During lunch, the 8th Light "city" office likes to have hands-on Lunch n' Learn sessions (everyday?). This week they're doing Clojure Koans. It was fun going through the koans again. We would each take turns completing a koan in a counter-clockwise fashion. Fortunatley I did not forget Clojure's syntax and worked my through them all until lunch was over.
Note: I apologize for the short post. I will have more material when I read more from the PPP book and Design Patterns book.