Stefan is a front-end developer for Floriday. This means that he translates the design for a new functionality into a lively interface. To put it simply, he is responsible for the technical side of the application front. Are you curious as to what Stefan’s working day looks like? Read on for details.
7:45 AM – a nice time to start the working day at JEM-id.
I'll first make a pot of coffee for the others that come in a bit later. I will have a mineral water.
Time to check Slack, mail and GitLab. Sometimes, other developers have worked hard the night before, after which it makes sense for me to get up to scratch with the developments they have made. In GitLab, a platform that allows several programmers to work on the same code simultaneously, I see that Leon has put in some review comments. He suggests that I make some improvements to a new screen that shows details of a connection from FloraXchange. I process the feedback by improving the code and then feed this back to Leon in GitLab. Hopefully, the code is now good enough to be passed on to the staging environment :).
Subsequently, I check our Trello board – this is our to-do list – to see what I can take on. It seems there's nothing in the fast lane. Sometimes, tasks that have to be dealt with as soon as possible are placed here. I see that there are some tasks open for new network features in Floriday and put one to my name.
At 9 AM, we have the daily stand-up with Floriday’s team blue. For this purpose, we use Trello on a large touchscreen, and everyone mentions in turn what they will be working on that day. Sometimes, there are also a number of discussion points on the board, which we then go through right away.
After that, everybody gets working on improving and expanding Floriday. I continue to work on the new network features and in the meantime keep an eye on the tech support channel Slack, our internal chat program. Here is where the support team lists your questions and incident reports. Together with team green and team orange we then solve these incidents.
By now it's 1 PM, time to have lunch. Hopefully there's still a boiled egg left for me. We talk about this, that and the other, but not about work because that is strictly prohibited ;).
After lunch, I continue developing. Leon asks if I want to review his work as he would like to have that code live rather quickly. I also keep an eye on Slack, discuss some code improvements with others and see how time slowly moves on and on.
Between 4:30 and 5:30 PM it's time to go home. The time depends on whether I'm still busy doing something that I want to finish.
Floriday