First Steps at VAB

February 3 - February 9, 2025

01

First Week Highlights

My first week was filled with new experiences:

  • Team introduction and office tour
  • Received work laptop and domain access
  • Set up development environment
  • Attended 2 team meetings
  • Completed Hoxhunt cyber security training

Monday

Tasks

  • Team introduction and office tour
  • Received work laptop and domain access
  • Set up development environment
  • Attended 2 team meetings
  • Completed Hoxhunt cyber security training

Learnings

  • Company environment and team structure
  • Security protocols and best practices
  • Team bonding

Tuesday

Tasks

  • Explored VAB's Angular project
  • Started phone number form component with country flags
  • Set up VAB backend environment
  • Worked on assigned ticket from colleague
  • Resolved Git push issues

Learnings

  • Project structure and workflow
  • Sprint planning process
  • Git troubleshooting
  • Security importance

Wednesday

Tasks

  • Fixed local dev.vab.be access issue
  • Completed assigned ticket
  • Studied RxJS fundamentals
  • Watched tutorial videos on RxJS

Learnings

  • Local development environment troubleshooting
  • RxJS concepts and implementation
  • Ticket completion workflow

Thursday

Tasks

  • Researched Sitecore fields and templates
  • Observed cross-team project meeting
  • Created Sitecore fields for phone number component
  • Completed backend setup for component
  • Started frontend preparation

Learnings

  • Sitecore CMS basics
  • Component development workflow
  • Backend-frontend integration process

Friday

Tasks

  • Weekly review
  • Documentation
  • Planning next week

Learnings

  • Week reflections
  • Areas for improvement