Third Weekly Report

Issues, successes

Some development and progress issues were encountered this week due to inadequate knowledge of some legacy platforms.

Build update of several legacy applications, exploration

This week I was tasked with updating a legacy application and its complementary backend service. Technically, the application in question is a small app of which three separate versions exists. It's intended use is to give people visiting certain parks additional information and some fun exercises.

• Polder Ranger
• Broads Ranger
• Biesbosch Ranger

Users can then "level up" and gain some perks such as creating posts themselves. While this sounds simple enough in theory, since the applications are built using an old version of Unity I needed to dig deep into the inner workings of the code.

Luckily, La Mosca has a lot of developers with Unity experience on hand so I was able to get going quite quickly.

Building a backend service with only partial version control tracking

Another part of the update required some fixes to the backend. As this application was build pre-ASP.NET MVC, I was not very familiar with how it functioned. I managed to implement the fixes mostly by trial and error (which went faster than expected).

The biggest issue however was that some project assets were not included in the version control tracker. This made it necessary to manually find the correct DLL's in the codebase which was a slow (and error-prone) process.

Schedule

As previously mentioned, this week's goals were not easily met. I was however still able to finish the job.

Next week will probably be similar: updating legacy projects.