Bug Squashing, Issue Triaging, and Nimble UI Enhancements

Communal elation in the group is still very apparent after the functional demo of Nimble and Makedrive working together, and we are all focusing that positive energy to keep a rigorous pace in order to arrive at the upcoming milestone this Friday revolving around getting MakeDrive to be stable enough to deploy to the public and be used in non-controlled environments such as the other Webmaker tools.

Last week, I created some fun and practical extensions to the front-end UI in order to test the Brackets appshell's potential in its current form in the context of being able to manipulate or change the end-user interface without having to change any of the code already implemented. I went ahead and recorded a video demo of my results on YouTube:

I can't help but feel proud of what little front-end programming prowess I've managed to cobble up, haha.

My focus this week veers back to backend functionality with more bug squashing on the MakeDrive end of things, particularly in the scope of webmaker authentication. I will be tackling some code removal/refactoring to eliminate unnecessary or arbitrary module imports and process executions as well as attempt to plug in support for query string session data as an alternative to cookies in order to extend webmaker-auth's login methods to be able to use firefox extensions and the like. Much learning will likely be had.

As always, stay tuned for more updates!