Loccasions: Retrospective
The Loccasions application now allows most of the basic functionality that I wanted to produce. Now it’s time to examine what went right, what went wrong, and what the next iteration is.
Continue Reading…The Loccasions application now allows most of the basic functionality that I wanted to produce. Now it’s time to examine what went right, what went wrong, and what the next iteration is.
Continue Reading…Last time we completed the client-side items needed to display the Events on the User Events page. Our focus now turns to adding and removing events asynchronously using Backbone. In our screenshot of the Events page, the only part of the view…
Continue Reading…Last time we setup our client-side code and made the map. In this article, we’ll get Events integrated into our Backbone-based client code, displaying the collection of user Events. Event Views The following screenshot is from the last post, and shows how…
Continue Reading…We’ve finally arrived at the moment of the map. For the last several articles in the Loccasions series, I have promised things like “in the next post we will deal with the map” and “I will lower taxes,” and I have not…
Continue Reading…In this post, I want to finally get the Occasions MVC sequence done. This is the seventh post in the series, and I thought we’d be farther by now. Those responsible for our less-than-expected progress have been sacked. First, however, let’s make…
Continue Reading…On a day like any other, I was scanning through my Twitter feed searching for knowledge and inspiration. Although I didn’t know it yet, this day of Tweet Fishing would prove fruitful and change the direction of Loccasions forever. (You should imagine…
Continue Reading…Our last post flushed out the Events model and created a very basic home page. Hopefully, by the end of this post, we will be able to add, modify, and delete events from our user home page. CRUDdy Events Unless you’ve just…
Continue Reading…In our last post, we ended with very basic authentication working. However, we are faking out the events_path in our sign_in spec, which is where we’ll start. A successful sign-in redirects to the user events page which, presumably, has a list of…
Continue Reading…In the last post, we finished our first user story. That user story was pretty simple, but it flushed out the design of our home page. The next user story, As an administrator, I want to invite users to Loccasions is not…
Continue Reading…In the last post, we ended with our application structure. In this post, we’ll start with our first user story As an unregistered user, I want to see the home/landing page. There are a few things to point out in this short…
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