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We just realized the upcoming week will super busy, but at the same time, SUPER FUN! Interviews started for some of us... and got free food from Square. Jason and Jerry have ECON midterm tmr, Good luck 👻 Let's finish other works and get ready for out midterm demo!

(I realized that we have stopped posting the accurate days. The days now represent the times when we remember to blog haha...) Sprint CLC planning today. Buffer week where we are getting a lot of clean up done before early bird next week. David finally got relay working properly and Julie got the initial screen for create listing to work. Jerry finished the top bar implementation yesterday. Jason pulling through with the immediate back end fixes and he even got the home view toggle to work! Ellen's pushing through and experimenting with layouts on home view and Leslie is forever designing and prototyping. Let's keep up the good work team! Here comes the home stretch before early bird. Let's keep this good momentum going for the following week :)

dibbs lunch & learn! Today we had our first dibbs lunch & learn! David talked about react-native and some core concepts needed to work on the front end. Leslie gave us more insight into what Relay is and why it's a good alternative to use as opposed to Apollo. Jason gave us a quick Ruby tutorial and a tour of the backend. Julie showed us her amazing work on dibbsthat.com. She was also able to get our SSL certificate to work. Yay https! We also went over out roadmap for the next few weeks and months. During our breaks, Leslie had mini dance session tutorials with Jack, Jason and David. We went to the new pizza place in the plaza for dinner and went to Coco to get bubble tea and finally take a team picture! After dibbs dinner (featuring one of our stakeholders Jack), we set up camp in one of the interview rooms in the new Laurier building to push our D3 for SE463. Long day but pretty productive.

This was technically yesterday but we had our weekly meeting. We discussed our second spring - BLACKPINK. The plan is that we'll put the backend on pause for now only respond to immediate bug requests on the backend. Instead, Jerry, Jason and Julie plan on supporting David and Ellen on the front end to help pump out the mobile prototype. There are some architectural changes concerning Graphql that we were discussing but have not yet evaluated if it's reasonable to push out these changes for v1. That's all :)

Leslie's been trying to get some branding work done by developing and iterating over new logos. Haven't found something we're happy with in terms of the application icon and stuff.  She did come up with a sticker design we could potentially use for marketing! Jerry created a flow chart that lays out how the app is supposed to function. Here's a quick peek.

For Friday May 19, 2017 Hi! SO for some reason, Jason decided to write the blog for the stuff that happened the previous day. Thus, our blog is shifted by a day now... Sorry for the inconvenience 😓 ANDDDD WE HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS TODAY! dibbsthat.com is online now! Thank you for everyone who helped us brainstorm dibbs, and I want to thank everyone on the team for the hard work 💘 Although we still have a lot of work to do, i think it will be fun 👪 Long weekend started yesterday... Leslie was dancing with her friends in MC 👯 Jerry went back to Toronto to eat some good food without inviting us 😥 David worked on dibbs 💪 Ellen went to Toronto to celebrate her friend's bday 💞 Jason probably worked on dibbs 🙌 Julie was chilling with her HS friend at Bao💥

For Thursday May 18, 2017 Powered through implementing the graphql API on client and server-side Integrated Invision with sketch for some slick prototyping

For Wednesday May 17, 2017 Ellen made the select community view look beautiful, good stuff! Leslie in her design studio (aka RCH 101 Row 12, seat 3)

For Tuesday May 16, 2017 Sprint planning day. We will be having three 1-week sprints before the early bird deadline. Two weeks of development and one week of regression, deployment, design refinement. Tickets have been defined and costed for the AOA sprint (May 16 - May 23) Jason added some auth endpoints for verifying and refreshing tokens. David added graphql support for the front end

For Monday May 15, 2017 Julie investigated email services. Jason worked on models and graphql. Jerry helping to add graphql types to existing models. Look at the amazing query editor that comes with the gem! David built the join community page that Leslie designed Our original slogan might have trademark issues :( Ellen looking into this

For Sunday May 14, 2017 Happy Mother's Day!!! Jason trolled Jerry by swallowing errors and only logging "internal server error". Jason un-trolled Jerry by printing error message and backtrace. Jerry worked on retrieving Facebook user data. Jason wrote some authentication tests.

We bought the domain dibbsthat.com for $11.23 CAD 👪 David and Jason worked together to get frontend and the backend connected!!!! Ellen is enjoying her Saturday with her parents 👼 Leslie is celebrating Mother's day one day early and she is coming back to waterloo tonight! Julie is being lazy today... I don't know what Jerry is doing today ( sorry... ) Jerry here: I went for a run in the gym, went for shopping, then aunt home for family dinner:)

Jason is trying to get facebook authentication working... getting there! David fixed a bug that unblocked Ellen and Leslie 😍 Also, he just pushed all the responsibility to Ellen when Julie needed help. Ellen thinks: she was wrong..... but, it turned out to be David's fault 😡 Julie tried to purchase the domain, dibbsthat.com, but somehow didn't happen Jerry went back to Toronto and was working from a Starbucks with bad wifi Leslie was deciding where the "Join Community" button should be located 😋 What a nice day :) FYI: David is speechless / mad at Julie

Ellen Joined Dibbs :)