Facebook Open Academy Blog

by Jussi Mertanen


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So the short week after the vacation is now over. It took a little bit of time to get back up to speed with our work. We actually forgot some of the things we had done before the vacation. We...

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Making Things Clearer

Last week was short due to us having the easter break, we only worked from Monday to Wednesday. We did make progress in those three days. We managed to fix the tests, so a large part of the locals problem...

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Quality

Slowly but somewhat surely is how I would describe our progress this week. We have gotten some parts of the locals problem working to some degree, but there is still a lot of work to do. The changes we have...

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Inside Rails

Week 10 was a quiet week. Things are pretty much the same as at the end of last week. We made some progress on the locals issue, but the feature is still not merged. Matthew said that non trivial pull...

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Closures

Our feature is now done. On Monday we finished things up and on Tuesday we made the pull request. We immediately started getting feedback, and for the rest of the week we discussed our pull request with the member of...

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Language

Our first big feature is finally ready for a pull request. This week (week 8) we finished our feature, made some more tests for it, refactored it, benchamrked it and fixed all the bugs we found in it. Last week...

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Half Way Through

After all the waiting of the last couple of weeks, this week we got a lot done and finally got some answers from the mentors! Juho, Qian and Henrik made tests for the part of the eager loading feature that...

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Team Work

So, the sixth week of software factory is now over, and we’re almost half way through the course. This week we made some progress on our eager loading feature, but not as much as we would have liked. This was...

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Eager To Load

This week was not as productive for me as I’d hoped due to the fact that I got sick in the middle of the week. I stayed home on wednesday, thursday and friday and couldn’t get that much work done....

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In Sunny California

The trip to California was a great success! The code sprint was fun and we saw everything we wanted to see in San Francisco. We arrived on friday the 30th of January after over 15 hours of travel. As soon...

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Learning

Week two of the facebook open academy project was not as eventful as the first one. Apparently the mentors won’t start mentoring until the hackathon next week (or at least that’s what we think since only one of them answered...

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Orientation

The first week of the Facebook Open Academy project has now gone by, and it feels like we’ve had a good start. The first couple of days went into setting up the work environment. There were no major problems, although...

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