To remember for the next opportunity...

Last monday I was very nervous, I knew that I had made a serious mistake. Anyway, I began a training because it had been a while since I did one. The training was about Angular (Only Pernix Employee can see the link). The first chapter was a bit boring because it only explained how to install Angular and the typical 'Hello World'. I also got some information about Angular on the internet, and I discovered that Angular 2 exists. It’s structure is very similar to rails, but the model code could be written in different languages like Typescript and JavaScript.

I had a meeting with Cardoce, Carlos and Jesus. At this meeting, they give me a retrospective about my work on Asap, they told to me that I need to improve my soft skills.I feel like sometimes I worried about how was Tristan felling with the constant emails, so I only notify him when I had a breakthrough. Also I think that I should ask for more help, some features took me a lot of time. Another problem was that the project structure was wrong modularize, because I did not thought about futures features. Because of this I must show my ideas to someone before begin to write code.

After this Carlos told me I could continue working into Asap, but "In the shadows", at that moment Jesus become the project leader.

Next Monday I was helping Jesus organizing the project, but without writing code. Also this day I continue the angular tutorial, but this time I created an app on my computer, then I set the environment. When I finished this, I was really happy because I did it fast. I remember when I installed ruby, it was really difficult for me because was my first time using the console. I remember that the last time I was feeling insecure, but now I am confident in what I’m doing

The next day on Pernix, I continue with Asap, Jesus showed me the new design of the project, this new design was better than mine. I did a refactor on my part of the project. I came Thursday afternoon to Pernix because this was the day I could do pairing with Jesus. He explained some parts about his design that I could not understand. Also he told me that we could used the gem riif, I was surprised because I thought that it was not possible. At the beginning I didn’t believed  Jesus, but he told me something very important, that he has more experience than me and I needed believe in him. Another thing to remember is that I have to  change my way of talking, because I commonly use words like try and hope, but this words don’t  help me to be a proactive person instead of a passive person.

Finally this week Cardoce review my blog, and he told me all my mistakes in spelling on the first paragraph, but I did not took note about that, and now I can’t remember the corrections. I need to solve this kind of problems, and take note of the people say.

For next week I asked Sirias for a new project, because I had some free time. I decided to help on the project of budget dashboard in angular, because I went to practice the learned in the last week. Thanks to Escobar I understood the new project.

If I really want to be service employee, I need to work hard on my soft skills and pay more attention with the retrospectives. Also I need to do more pair programing, and not try “to discover hot water” without help.