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IP (lack of) progress

I’ve been having a lot of frustration with the project today. I am trying to figure out the tumblr info broken down by weeks but am having serious difficulty figuring out the best approach and how best to access that info.

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IP progress

Forgot to write this yesterday! Before the meeting with Eni, I got permissions figured out.

Thus, when an “admin” user is signed in they see something different than a normal user.

Admin view: 

Regular view: 

The admin can create/add new assignments to the list, while the student can only “check off” completed tasks. Also each individual user has independent checked progress bars. That trick took a lot of work! I had to have a checkedBy field that listed all users that checked it.

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IP Progress: Meeting with Eni

Had my meeting with Eni this morning. Didn’t make as much progress before meeting with her as I had wanted, but I got some good feedback. She suggested that I focus on the d3 visualization part next. 

The visualization will show how many of the weekly requirements the user has completed, but I also have to figure out how to figure out what the weekly requirements are.

I have a lot of progress left to make so I best get to it!

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Progress! Now I’ve got a progress bar (the green and grey thing). It fills up proportionally to how many tasks the user has clicked. Currently I’m having troubles with the fact that when the user unchecks the box the progress bar stays filled up. So the next task will be to fix that I think.

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Progress shot of my app! I have a list of the assignments with check boxes so that the user can check them off when completed. I’m using Foundation for styling instead of bootstrap so that is why the buttons look a little different from normal.

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IP Progress

I have finally broken down my files into client and server folders. I thought I could keep them all together, but it was getting really messy!

I actually like this form better now, and I think I will always start with the folders for projects from now on

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Cleaning out the Drafts

Hey y’all, sorry for the long string of posts. I had some built up in the Drafts that I had forgotten to post.

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IP Progress

I have finally found a d3 visualization type that I like to use with my project.

This will be used to display how much of the weekly requirements you’ve completed. I haven’t yet gotten the tumblr data to be broken down by week but that is on the to do list!

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Individual Project Progress

I have been making very slow progress on this project.

I started with the tumblr API and was able to get data back very quickly, but then figuring out how to store the data using mongoDB is taking me a very long time to figure out.

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As our group tries to reorganize our meteor group project, I came across this cool resource/article.

It gives good advice on how to name your files and how to structure your folders. It is easy to read and has example diagrams which is very useful in my opinion! 

Hope y’all find this helpful as you try to keep track of all your files for projects!

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Web applications aren’t about building some HTML and some CSS anymore.

Eni, on how web pages have become web applications and its reliance on non-static data (via mashy-potatoes)

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This class wasn’t a frontend class; you learned to become full stack developers.

Eni on CS249 (via mashy-potatoes)

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Team Project Progress

We are meeting right now to get some more progress. We’ve been working in separate files for the most part due to the complications with github that have mysteriously been fixed... (not sure what the problem even was in the first place).

Today’s big goal is to consolidate our files so that from now on we are only doing work in one folder that will hold the final product.

Also hoping to make some strides in functionality, but the priority is fixing our files.

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I used QuickTime Player. I think it comes with all standard Windows and Mac computers. :)

Hey y’all!

Here is a screencast I made about this great project management tool called pivotal tracker. 

Hope you find it useful!

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I think that 1 is just PrinterCollection telling you it has updated 1 document.

Does anyone know how to use JavaScript Date objects? For some reason, both November and December are represented as 1…

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Team Project Troubles

We’ve been working on our project on and off for about a week, but we just now found that while “autopublish” allows the client to access the documents it does not maintain those documents for the next session.

We solved this problem by inserting the entries each time the page was refreshed. This was tedious and made it impossible to remove something and have it stay removed.

Thankfully, Katherine was able to help me figure this out in helproom. If we explicitly publish and subscribe to a collection than any changes are maintained between sessions. 

Thank you, Katherine!

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It’s coming together!

We have been working on all the backend stuff up until now. But now we’ve finally moved on to the “make it pretty!” stage and it is so exciting to have an actual product to look at.

REFLECTION~~~ Progress can be (or at least seem) agonizingly slow when you are working in the code base without any visual representation or way to display your changes in the webpage. 

Also, while Github can be a great tool, it can also be a great pain. Especially when working with meteor. If we had more time it would be great to figure out why we are having difficulties, but we’ve just come up with the hacky solution of each having a separate meteor folder in the github project.

Did anyone else have difficulties getting the meteor code to run on multiple machines?