Alisa's Open Journal

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Day 45: The Job Search Intensifies

This is the last day of the regular program. From now one we will be doing our best to get interviews and by extension a job. It's been a long, stressful and fun process, but now it's time to get back "to the real world."

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Day 44: Breakthrough

Finally got my SPA going. Would have gotten it going earlier if I had been able to watch that tutorial sooner, but.... I have to finish the design and get it to use the API from the Rails backend. We're demoing it tomorrow.

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Day 43: Finished RSpec

I finished the tests for my custom methods for my models. I finished the queries and the forms that use them (just CSS to do).

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Day 42: Let's Learn Ember

Started on the rspec test for my models. Found a great tut on Ember.js

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Day 41 (W9D1): Hellooo, Ember

Looks like I might not have enough time for instant notifications. I prefer to understand what I'm doing, not just follow a tutorial. I'm also looking at Ember.js. It looks like it might work better than Backbone.js and Supermodel.js. My visual design is coming along.

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Day 40: The Demo

Friday We got to see each others' projects today. There was a bit of variety. Weekend Worked on the css. It wasn't too bad/hard. I found a collection of different stylesheets and took inspiration from those.

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Day 39: Tagging

I worked on tagging. They can be browsed (with pagination) and they can be added to questions. I had a huge headache because the autocomplete feature wasn't working. Apparently, it was because I had included the js files twice (thanks, you)

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Day 38: Created indexes

I started using Kaminari for pagination. I started to necessary steps to implement tagging - got a plugin and put my tags in a useable format. I created a couple of indexes for my full text searches.

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Day 37:

So I'm working on my final project. Right now, the only major things I need to do is optimize the search/querying and print out the data.

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Day 36 (W8D1): Day 1 of the Final Project

To be edited

I migrated most of the tables and set most of the relationships. I experimented with full text searching through bg_search I realized I wanted an answer's show action to point to its owner's (the question) show page. I think the url will look something like this: question_url(@question.id, anchor: answer.id) I then realized I wanted text instead of the question's id and found friendly_id.

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Day 35 (W7D5): CSS

Today, we recreated sites using html and css. There's supposed to be a test on this on Wednesday. I wonder how it will be graded.

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Day 34: Borders and padding

Maybe it's not *that* hard to design a reasonably attractive website. Today, Jonathan recreated a page of a website. He started off with a bland/ugly-looking site and crafted something nice right before our eyes. I think the biggest players in the look of it were the borders (different sizes and colors) and the padding (whitespace is good).

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Day 33: Nested Collections

Today, we worked on a Rails/Backbone site again. It was harder because we had to make nested collections. In the end, we figured out (one way of) how to do it.

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Day 32: It All Comes Together

We worked with backbone today. We set up our Rails models and controllers and then integrated our backbone models, views and routers. Since the backbone part wasn't too hard and we were used to Rails websites, we got done fairly quickly.

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Day 31: PhotoTag, Part 2

We finished up our Photo tagging project today, by ourselves. I found it easier to loosely follow along. (I'll definitely have (extra) refactoring though.) I displayed everything on one page. I hope there's a way to do that (what's the benefit anyway) and be able to bookmark the page I want. I don't like site's that don't allow that.

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Day 30: Backbone

Friday We worked on a program that would allow users to tag their friends in photos. It was based on Rails and often used AJAX to post. We also used underscore templates. Weekend We worked on using Rails with Backbone.js.

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Day 29: SecretKeeper

Today we were incorporating our Javascript into our Rails website. We used AJAX to post some of the data to the server. Our controllers looked for requests in html and json.