The Glucose Amigos

What an awesome name, that our captain found us! And here is the site : Glucose Amigo

So, we pretty much finished the app. This, guys, is what we can do in one week, with 4-5 of us, after 9 weeks of hard work. We came all with different experiences, behaviors, point of views, and in the end… We build a full app in one week.

I wish I would have more time to spend on the testing (I did most of the Javascript, there are 2 test, one on the login one on the logout…), but after that week of working with that awesome team, what I want to say is : Thank you DBC, thank you team, and thank you captain!

Working with all these awesome people is incredible!

If you want to know more about the app (and not read the “help” in the menu), the idea is that we made an app that keeps track of one or multiple diabetics’s blood sugar level and weight, gives you a graph and a list of records, sends it per mail to your doctor, and can remind you to measure, and log the measures.

Personalities

In these 9 weeks, I saw a lot of different personalities. For example, among the people I paired with, I found 2 different types of people:

• People who want everything to be done, at the cost of understanding everything, but will not hesitate in going back at it to learn more about what they did not understood the first time
• People who take the time to discover and learn everything even if it ends up taking them more than twice the time everybody else takes.

I paired with both, and … strangely enough, no conflict emerged from it! I think I am a bit more of the second, but in the days I was working with somebody from the other group, I would just work his/her way, or use my “reputation” to try and teach the other person, go over what I did not see fully before, and go deeper.

In the end, I think I got most of what I could get from DBC, and mostly, I got the one lesson everybody should take : You don’t know anything. Thinking you do is dangerous, don’t do that.

Some people may think that this is just a fancy way to say that when you actually know what you’re talking about (For real, I have already been told), but honestly, it is 100% of the truth. The difference between a confident person and and a stressed out one is quite often the fact that the confident already knows he has no idea what he’s doing, but knows how to figure things out, learn, and maybe next time not have to spend too much time on it.

Also, we had to work on a personality test for our career week at DBC. My results… : You are an ENTJ.

If I have to sum it up, I would say I am a confident and convincing leader who need people to survive and who sometimes end up relying too much on emotions. I don’t know if it is true, but I like the description, so that’s a start!

D-5

So, 5 days huh…

I learn a lot of new things around, about SF, about the city and everything around it, just to make sure I can be the perfect guide for Thuy. I have found cookies places that will blow her mind, and I think I found some great example of SF food that would make her love the place.

In the time I’ve been here, I have not had any time to discover anything, but even in that small 10 blocks area that I lived in, I still found restaurants that have nothing to do with what we have in Paris, kinds of food we never ate, and better versions of things we found elsewhere (Of course, I did not find better bread, but that is another topic…)

I could say I have not seen the sea, Alcatraz, the bridges, or many other things, but the thing that I feel like I want to discover the most is … SF food and drinks! Maybe that is her influence, who knows…

Anyway, in the end, I just want to say thank you to SF in a whole. Your food rocks so hard I became addicted and I can’t wait to get her hooked on that too ;)