The Acclivity that Separates Programming from Development

Concluding this week was the presentation of Webmaker team's first completed two-week-long sprint which showcased the initial integration of makedrive with filer and its initial connection with client-side DOM sessions. As I alluded to in last week's post, my work on this heartbeat was primarily focused on implementing Server-Sent Events.

The design was structured as so:

(This was also seen in my original proof of concepts' front-end page). The initiating client session would "save" a file they just created, effectively sending a request to push the data into the server. Once validation and syncing would be completed, I (along with great help from Mr. Sedgwick, yet again) used a server-sent event back to all the other active client sessions (on the same user) that the sync and push has successfully completed and that it's time for them to update their version from the server. Completing the cycle and syncing all the other sessions is one of the goals of the upcoming sprint we are about to undertake.

The demo, although executed wonderfully as a concerted team effort, ended up being received with a rather tepid response. This was likely due to the majority of the mozilla developers being away at conventions, and leaving the large part of the crowd to be more community and marketing work-oriented folks.

This week I will be working on writing server-side and restful-API unit and functional tests. More to come next week, as usual.