With project lead David Humphrey currently on vacation and senior team member Ali Al Dallal called away to Vancouver with tertiary work from Mozilla, there was no shortage of work to be done or tasks to be undertaken. Kieran Sedgwick went ahead and took over Makedrive unit testing for the time being in order to try and eventually successfully solve the nightmarish bugs that blocked the tests' infrastructure from being fully implemented and able to support comprehensive codebase testing.
Concurrently, I went ahead and switched gears and focused on the two tasks of trying to research and piece together a proof-of-concept of a Websocket-core API system that handles user and session authentication before automatically upgrading the connection protocol from HTTP to WS. This is still a work in progress, but much learning is being had thus far. Some decisions might need to be made on the issue of the potential limitations of the core library not being able to handle upgrade events as comprehensively as might be necessary in order to properly and securely create this connection switch validation.
Lastly, I was helping fellow team member Gideon Thomas with the planned upcoming demo of the bi-directional syncing functionality of Makedrive, mainly with designing the front-end UI and pair programming through the client-to-server communication and invocation of our libraries. That unfortunately wasn't able to be materialized due to the discovery of a bug with the server-side diff route validation that is still being solved to this day which not only affected bi-directional syncing but the unidirectional syncing that was demoed weeks earlier as well. Slightly heartbreaking, but on we fight with the knowledge that eventual victory will taste that much sweeter.
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