#w8d1

[worldsokayestmother]

W8 / D1

Today I’m craving chocolate covered stuff. Fruit, nuts, bred (red. pålægschokolade - if that ain’t a global thing).

I feel Gavin Degraw’s judging eyes upon me.

[psl646]

W8D1

Today I Learned: about Front-end auth using React and using form components

I learned how to set up users/sessions on the front end today using React components and JBuilder. It was difficult for me to wrap my mind around it at first but I was able to create a user/new session by the end of the day.

Today was a big day as we completed the react/flux curriculum and will be starting the capstone curriculum tomorrow. But first, we kick things off with an assessment on the material we learned over this past week.

I need to do the practice assessment many times tonight!

[dylanmeacham-blog]

App Academy: Week 8, Day 1

Today was our second day making a mock AirBnB app. As with the first day of the project, today was mainly focused on getting more comfortable with Flux, React, jbuilder, and the React Router. Although I already knew how to use all of these technologies from previous days, one interesting thing that I did learn how to do was how to use Flux to manage "filter params" for filtering a query or search of some kind. For instance, today I used a Flux filter params store and associated actions and API utilities to filter-out locations on my app's map based on user-supplied parameters specifying maximum and minimum values for seating at locations on the map. Furthermore, I learned even more about using the Google Maps API today to create maps and markers with particular properties, such as click handlers.

I think that the most valuable thing that I gained from today was just a greater overall comfortability with React, Flux, and using Rails as a backend with them.

[finalpen]

Last Day Before Final Projects

I can't believe that we're finally here. Welp, time to get cracking!

[emotionally-shrekt-blog]

Ssssss ouch I got a rash on my thigh from running w8d1

[haasalex16]

W8D1

Today we wrapped up our last assignment with App Academy before starting our final projects; a Trello Clone. This clone was given to us with most of the Rails already built so that we could focus on the Backbone portion which was very helpful. This was the first time I used composite views which caused some of my progress to slow down but after a while I got the hang of it. Unfortunately I did not get to add the feature of dragging around the lists with jQuery but I hope to review the code and possibly implement it in my final project; a SoundCloud clone.

[untilyoureproud-blog]

Finished W8D1 of C25k!!! Never thought I'd get this far 😁 Never in my life I ran 28 minutes straight

[5millionsecondsofcode-blog]

4895855 seconds

Project Ramblings

The functionality is there. I can sign up, sign in, sign out, I can upload images, and I can get images from the server.

It's just that. 

They don't work together at all. I have to string them up and create functionality that makes them play with with each other, but right now I'm just content that I image uploading working. 

I'm not sticking too well to the agile development philosophy, because development has been frustratingly slow. I'm in awe of my fellow peer's progress, but in reality I haven't been keeping up the pace at all. 

I decided to go with Cloudinary as a server because their URL's have built in image transformations. This whole day was getting comfortable with Cloudinary's api and jQuery plugins. Unfortunately there isn't much documentation on Backbone+Cloudinary so I'm left to scrounge things myself....it's exciting, but I can't help but wonder if I chose another path I wouldn't face such problems.

But I chose Cloudinary because of it's functionality. Cloudinary gives me a server, image transformations, and image filtering all at once.  After that, I can focus on making spinning shit.