Today was our sixth day at Field2base. As always, we began our day by attending the stand-up meeting. After stand-up, we were given an assignment to have a region on a form output the time zone for any United States Zip Code that a user could input. After trying various API options with no success, I had the idea of finding an excel spreadsheet with all this data contained within it. After getting this functioning, I realized that daylight savings time would be an issue that could make this not work correctly during about half of the calendar year. Due to this issue, I had to essentially start completely over in my approach but luckily the spreadsheet I had already found did contain this data. I spent the rest of the morning coding the form to correctly find the date and check whether daylight savings time was active, and if it was, take it into account. Once I had this all set up it was time for lunch. After lunch Milen and I attended the development team’s meeting in review of their seventh “sprint,” which is a term for a two week period of progress using the Agile methodology. I am looking forward to my next and final two days at Field2Base!
