Monday 26 May 2014

Server-Sent Events and Bootstrap Tinkering

Last week was definitely substantial in terms of activity. In the pursuit of surprise, however, summary and descriptions of my work on the current sprint will be completed on this upcoming week's blog post when initial implementation into the MakeDrive logic will occur (hopefully by week's end) and be visually demonstrated first.

I am delighted to report about my initial fiddling work with Bootstrap CSS which is coming along rather swimmingly and excitingly. This front-end resource is being used to present my first proof-of-concept of the relatively new SSE interface. Documentation is readily google-able and as in-depth as you need it. When used in conjunction with JQuery, it provides for extremely efficient element generation and manipulation. You can event grab pre-made templates from the main website and customize them from there for web design on the fly. It's front-end beauty that's ideal for the timeframe of back-end coders.

Friday also welcomed a new workshop to host at Silver Springs public school. Very similar in structure to the workshop held one week prior, with the addition of me personally spearheading the last one of the day. The students were nearly as attentive and focused as the first school, and showcasing Webmaker proved to be a success yet again, with excited praise coming from faculty and participants alike. One trend fellow teammate Kieran Sedgwick and I were noticing is the slight difficulty for the younger audience to immediately find the tools they were looking for from the main page. Kieran has already filed a new issue on Github for the front-end team to take a look at.

Lots more news to come after the shipping of the first sprint by the end of this week!

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