First Steps at VAB
February 3 - February 9, 2025
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