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Can I survive General Assembly's Web Development Immersive?

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Text Clock

Been a long time since I posted anything here! So here's a Text Clock for Chrome you can have :)

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WK12D2

Final Project Week!

Currently getting flogged by DOM insertion and JS scopes. 11:17pm.

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WK10D4

RSPEC.

Pretty cool but quadruples your work load. booo :(

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Let me explain this

var something;

var that = this;

function()

this.

that

so that is this but that this is above and outside of this.

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WK8

Bero.

This week has been our second project week and Bero was the result of my team of 3 workings flat out for 7 days.

The idea was to replicate the hot and cold game of finding something, an address or a friend in this case.

So once you have signed up you can enter an address or follow a friend and the app will point you in the right direction with a live updating pointer as well as getting redder and redder as you get closer to your destination.

Bero was built with:

http://builtwith.com/bero.herokuapp.com

Ruby on Rails

Javascript and jQuery

AJAX

Google Maps JS

Geocoder.rb

Bootstrap

HTML5

Instagram API

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WK6D3

Been neglecting this for a bit too long! Reasons being,

project week.

project week.

project week.

weekend off eating, sleeping and drinking.

HOWEVER...

Results of said project week:

Weatherify!

http://weatherify.ninefold-apps.com/

Please take a look, you can sign up or you can sign in with:

username: ros | password: hello

more tech details to follow.

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#wdi5 celebrating the end of project1. (at General Assembly)

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Sometimes, coding is like...

111,111,111 × 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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WK4D4

Tomorrow we finish up some relational databasey rails stuff and start our first projects! We have to present a brief to the class of our ideas and what we hope to achieve.

Heres mine: Last week, for no reason, I was thinking that when it rains I can't help but have the lyrics from Travis' "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" running through my mind.

! (this is me having an idea)

So the app will take your location, return the current weather conditions, search Spotify and start playing tracks which contain 'rain' in the title or 'sun' or 'thunder'...

This evening I made a mock up of the UI which you can see below. I just want to have one big play button, weather in simple text in the bottom left. Once you hit play, the current playing album artwork will load up inside said button and the artist, track and album name are displayed in the bottom right. This might be a stretch goal or something to add later once we've covered JS.

I would also really like to have the track progress loop around the button but that really is a stretch right now.

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If you're reading this blog (you're awesome btw) and wondering if you should enroll in a WDI course (which you should, you awesome person) just be aware that it will make you tired and delirious, sometimes, everyday.

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WK4D1

Today, we ride the Rails!

Glad to be getting on to Rails, I'm looking forward to seeing how much can be done with it and spending time building something cool instead of spending days settings everything up, as was demoed by this little bit of command line typing:

These few commands do this:

create a directory

create a new Rails project

builds a database with SQLite3

and thats about it. You are now done.

and have a working CRUD database.

mind blown.

HOWEVER...

We're not going to use scaffolding yet, because well it's kind of cheating and is likely to need a heap of customizing afterwards.

First things first, we've been porting over our stock lookup and movie lookup programs into one. Which I'm glad to say wasn't too much bother once you've figured out the flow of things in Rails. The biggest problem I had was finding the slight syntax differences between Sinatra and Rails

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WK3D7

It's been another busy week!

This week has been more Ruby, Sinatra and SQL.

One of our homework tasks was to build a working 'CRUD' database. What I wanted to achieve was a web app that would allow you to enter in the date, time, venue and address for keeping track of gigs. The address would then return an embedded Google map. As it turns out, embedding a Google map is really easy!

The code for this main page looks like this:

The whole page is wrapped in a Ruby each statement which takes each gig from the gigs database and prints out the details using erb tags to pass in data.

The best part was the how easy Google allowed me to just pass it the address data without having to do anything to the string. Compared to the OMDB where I has to join the search string together with + for the search to work. eg, 'Mary Poppins' had to be converted to 'Mary+Poppins'

OMDB

That brings me on to the OMDB, finished it up, added a few more fields and some css which was then pushed up to heroku. Woohoo! Something real online! You can see that here:

OMDB

Getting this deployable meant we covered gem dependancies and created config.ru, Gemfile and Gemfile.lock files.

MTA

I've also got the logic nailed down for the MTA homework and worked out catches for all the times is just wants to crash. So I'm please about that. I would like to add a dynamic visual representation of the journey at some point.

We also went bowling and got a little drunk this week.

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What's this, extra curricular Tequila?

Allen Hsu

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I DON'T KNOW THIS DITTY!

Xaun Lopez

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WK3D2

I actually did alright in a morning warm up exercise for once! The brief was to input an integer and return the numbers english format. 34 => 'thirty-four'. Currently is works from 21-99. Some if statements to handle the tens and teen numbers will sort that out.

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HipChat and SQL

Today we had an intro to SQLite3 and the SQLite3 gem for Ruby. Later on HipChat:

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Ulysses