Patrick Müller

Hello there, dear friend. So here we are, in our final blog post. Somewhat sad, isn’t it? I mean, in the beginning, this was just a project that we had to do in the course of a lecture. Sure, we had something big in mind. Choosing sides against amazon, the biggest online shop in the … Read more

We would suggest running at least the backend in linux (or via wsl under windows) in order to prevent issues with npm under windows. Install mariaDB: TutorialBe sure to leave the port set to 3306. Also, we assume the username and password to be root. If you choose to use a different username or password, … Read more

Hello again! This week, we had a look at the code metrics from codacy. As we already integrated codacy in our workflow, it makes sense to look at the change proposals so we also have a more stable and more secure application. The following screenshots show you the issue dashboard as well as a detailed … Read more

This week, it was time for another retrospective, evaluating our sprints for this semester. You can also read our last retrospective here. This time, we did our retrospective together with TaskHub. You can read their blog post about the retrospective here. We began by noting the things we found positive, negative, confusing and not-so-good. After … Read more

Hello and welcome back, fellas! This week, it was all about learning how to properly refactor existing code. Therefor, we worked through chapter one of Martin Fowler’s book “Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code”. In this chapter, he starts with some example code and explains the first steps he takes when refactoring code. We … Read more

Today, besides us being back from our practical stage, we got some exiting news for you!As our website grew bigger and bigger with an average visitor count of almost 10 per day, we got an amazing offer from our friends at Amazon. Jeff Bezos contacted us personally a few weeks ago and offered to buy … Read more

Welcome back to the last blog post for this year. In this post, we will give you an overview over what we did this semester. If you’re interested in our midterm presentation, you can have a look at it here: Presentation. You can also find the handout for the presentation here: Handout. Now, we are … Read more

Howdy! This week, we don’t have too much to tell you as we did a so-called “retrospective” last week. A retrospective is sort of a team-meeting that you do from time to time to talk about the past sprints. The purpose is for the team to know how other team members feel and to get … Read more

Howdy there and welcome to week 6! This weeks task was to get familiar with Scrum. To put it short, Scrum is a way to manage agile projects, mostly, but not only used in software engineering. In Scrum, at the beginning of a project, all work packages are documented and put in the so-called “backlog”. … Read more

Roles Last week, we introduced you to our project. Now that we had more time to discuss it in detail, in this weeks blog-post, we’d like to introduce you to the RUP Roles defined by IBM and our final decision on technologies. RUP is short for Rational Unified Process and it basically defines, who is … Read more