Today was more of a low–key day. Jono, Felipe, Jack, and I all arrived at around 9:00am, give-or-take a few minutes. We all sat down and were logging onto the wifi when we were called into a meeting with Greyson. By the time we arrived at the conference room he was in, he had already started his conference call with his coworkers in China. The meeting was a Scrum meeting meaning Greyson and his colleagues were reviewing the backlog for all of the upcoming tasks and organizing them into sprints which are the tasks currently being worked on by the team in China. After the meeting, Greyson informed us about agile development and gave us two tasks. The first task was to do our own research on agile development, and the second task was to research how Apple’s new Sign-in with Apple software would work, a challenging task to say the least. Feeling a little humorous, Greyson jokingly said he wanted us to complete an actual working prototype of Sign-in With Apple by the end of the day knowing there would be little chance we would be able to fulfill his request. We all understood that he was joking, but we just couldn’t let the opportunity for a prank pass. We immediately started working on our tasks, and upon completion, we began to research how to write a program that would simulate the Sign-in With Apple software.
We started this work at 11:30am and completed it at 3:45pm. Jono, our team’s most knowledgeable computer programmer, successfully simulated theSign-in With Apple software code and even programmed the application to send emails, with attachments, using only the Python programming language. Once we told Greyson about what we had completed, he laughed it off thinking we were pulling his leg; however, once we showed him the code and had him run through the program himself, he realized that we were not joking. In the end, Greyson said how impressed he was with Jono’s programming skills. Even Greyson’s coworker from Germany, Nicholas, agreed with his assessment. While we all contributed to gathering the information for the two tasks, it was definitely Jono who received the gold medal today.