#w9d4

[worldsokayestmother]

W9 / D4

I don't get enough to drink when I'm at home. I am constantly dehydrated. Really need to get myself together. Yesterday I had a horrible headache and was nauseated and just plain felt like shit.

[psl646]

W9D4

I worked on my capstone today. LOts of CSS and functionality.

[dylanmeacham-blog]

App Academy: Week 9, Day 4

Today I put the finishing touches on my app. I didn't add any new features, but I definitely improved quite a few that I already had. In terms of styling, my most significant improvement was to make it so that the text in comments wraps around the header containing the user's profile picture but still lies above the footer where the like button lives. Also, I added timestamps to all posts and comments to bring the feel of my app closer to that of Facebook itself. Another improvement that I made was to make the "Add Friend" buttons update to say "Friend Request Sent" as soon as the user sends a friend request to another user and to strip all formatting from the contentEditable div that I use for post and comment input using a JQuery trick that I learned.

Other than that, I spent the day fixing up small bugs and styling issues here and there, like using setTimeout to make sure that I don't try to call setState on my ChatList component while it's still mounting when another user's message to the current user causes a new chat window to open up automatically inside of the component.

I'm really proud of what I've accomplished with my capstone in the last two weeks, so I'm looking forward to presenting it tomorrow and to see what everyone else put together.

[suntruth-blog]

W9D3

Capstone Week 2. Well, we're getting to even crunchier crunch time. It's interesting how the pressure to do well on this capstone is almost entirely self-imposed. No one is telling us that we need to have this done and with good quality. I don't even think that the pressure is coming from the urge to make a good impression on employers. I feel like with the character of the folks in the program, it's more about wanting to build using the tools we have learned. I want to show myself that I can make something interesting/potentially useful, even in a small sense or on a small scale. It's also the first time, really that we haven't been following guides on how to proceed, so that has been very different from all of our prior work. It has resulted in me learning a few things about tools that we worked with in the past, simply because I have been playing around with them to try to get them to suit my needs. I feel that, if I were a more competent programmer at the beginning of the program, that I would have been able to do more of that during the course of the course. That though, is entirely the point! Start from whatever skill level and end up a good programmer. If I had started as a great programmer from the beginning, I would not have needed to do this, eh? Ok, back to project. Forms!

[haasalex16]

W9D4

Another day working on my SoundCloud clone and even though it was very productive I feel like I just keep seeing new things that need to be completed before presentations tomorrow. That being said, the main thing that I completed today was getting my audio to automatically stream from song to song and stay on the current list (Stream, User Feed, Playlist) even while navigating through the site while it is playing. This was accomplished by creating one 'universal player' that would be injected with the source and album art when you pressed play on the individual song. I also created individual collections for each view that you were on (stream, feed, playlist) and then assigned that collection to a queue in the audio player so that it would be able to keep track of the full list of songs that you originally pressed play on. Like I said, I keep on finding little things that need to be tweaked before I am 100% happy with the product but I am glad that I have all of my main features working and tomorrow I hope to wrap everything up before presenting to the class.

[dr-cassandra-reyes]

Revenant Fears

Caitlyn... is alive.

I can't believe it.

After all of the fighting, death, and heartache, Caitlyn has endured.  We lost our friends and allies and Caitlyn has endured.

How?  How is it possible?

We killed her, almost a year ago now.  Did Simon and Zephyr and the others die for nothing?!?  We should have stopped her!

What is going on?

Caitlin is a danger to the Real Ground as well as the Under Ground.  She took all of Shibuya hostage last year and made Simon her puppet.  Now she's doing something with a girl named Violet.  Jacob is involved.  I don't know what's going on.

It's been so long since I left the UG but... I feel responsible.  I was supposedly one of the players who erased her but there she was, before my eyes.  An old nightmare come to life.  We didn't do our job thoroughly, and because of that, other people are going to pay.  Probably dearly.

Something has to be done, and I want to help.  I just don't know how.  Will I even be able to do anything?  Even if I could, would they even accept my help?  I've... I've been unable to stay in contact because of med school but...

I don't know what to do.

For now, I'll read through my journal from last summer to gather as much intelligence as I can.

[scone-zone]

Erasure

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. Death… really has been my great adventure.  I’ve really changed, and I have all of you to thank for it.  If not for my death, I would have continued living the pathetic life I was living before.  

Just remember, everyone…

The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song.

Don’t let anything that happens here cloud your vision.  I have failed.  I have fallen in battle but… Now your priority is you.  Now LIVE.

[scone-zone]

Well... I suppose, even up through last night, I didn't think I did deserve to win the game. Everyone else has family to take care of or to treasure the memory of. All I had was a feeble dream of becoming an author. But now... Without my books, I felt so lost, alone, and scared. They've always been there for me in hard times.  They don't hurt me and they don't change. People always did.  Without my crutch to lean on, I've been forced to learn to depend on others. People have become the thing I depend on to stay motivated and optimistic.  I'm still struggling with this change, but I think... I think I've learned to reach beyond myself. To reach out to others for the mutual benefit of the group.  I'm not good at it yet and I still struggle and fail, but... I think I deserve a chance to live life as it was meant to be lived- in harmony with others, instead of locked up inside myself. Everyone here has taught me that, so... Thank you. Without all of you... I'd never have made it this far.  I know I'm still weak, but... If you'll have me... I'd like to join all of you.