Mallory's Personal Log

April 22nd - April 28th

Major last-minute pushes by the whole team in preparation for final. Styled new login page. Helped with documentation. Fixed highlighting of search terms.

April 15th - April 21st

Working on fixing bugs as pointed out by QA testers. Major redesign of search page. Created new template for this page. Worked on highlighting text that is searched, still work in progress. Have final meeting scheduled with client next week.

April 8th - April 14th

Implemented and updated validation script for advanced search page. Made submenus inaccessable without main menu item checked to prevent errors.

April 1st - April 7th

Were able to demo a working results and search page to the client. Running into snags trying to make results page do dynamic columns. Fixed and updated validation script for main search page. Minor CSS changes.

March 25th - March 31st

Met with client and demoed results that arent linked to page yet. Finally have data handler working. Started work on styling the results to be more usable.

March 18th - March 24th

Still waiting on working data handler. Data handler has been reassigned to another team member. Did some minor reformating of style to website. Client meeting set up for Monday.

March 11th - March 17th

Spring Break. Still waiting on working data handler for API.

March 4th - March 10th

Beta is behind. Hold up on data handler. Met with client again and were able to demo a working API, however no integration with front end.

Feb 25th - March 3rd

Met on Wednesday with the group. Made further changes to the layout as per client specifications. Created separate advanced search page with multiple API specific options that need to be linked to the backend.

Feb 18th - Feb 24th

Showed app to client and got feedback. Started working on implementing feedback. Changed navigation as per client suggestion. Made results page return search term for future use with APIs.

Feb 11th - Feb 17th

Had team meeting with Phillip and Charles. Figured out Reddit API work around, however need API to function. Assigned jobs to Phillip, Charles, and Powell. Attempted to schedule meeting with client. Updated site to include results page (currently without any results, just returns search terms). Added bogus buttons for eventual advanced search features.

Feb 1st - Feb 10th

Ran unit tests. Learned to use Reddit API through command line. Had team meeting

Jan. 21st - Jan. 31st

Met with Vidal. Have teammate meeting coming up. Read testing Django documentation.

Dec. 17th - Jan 20th

Winter Break. Helped schedule meetings with the team and Professor.

Dec. 10th

Prepared powerpoint and demonstration of our project for final review for this semester.

Dec. 3rd

Styled login page, fixing it to work with standard templates. Worked on finishing the email and Contact Us issues. Email is functional now. Submitted the peer review forms on my team and myself. Minor style sheet changes.

Nov. 26th

Met with part of the team on Monday. Discussed design as well as final API integration. Worked on implementing the apperance changes that were discussed at meeting. Can now work on project locally again. Fixed small HTML errors. Waiting on login page to be committed. Still need to style that.

Nov. 19th

Made some recommended changes to css for site. Worked on contact us page. Managed to get CSS to apply to all pages on live site now.

Nov. 12th

Met with Vidal. Showed basic html site. Finished html for contact us page. Working on strange error where CSS only applies to home page now that site is running live. Attempting to help bring everything together for demo in 2 weeks.

Nov. 5th

Missed meeting due to recovery from the hospital. Started working on CSS for the main page. Finished the main template.

Oct. 29th

Nothing. Was in the hospital and unable to work on the project.

Oct. 22nd

Had another meeting with Professor. Discussed hosting options and plans to move forward with the project. Presented project for Research Milestone. Started very limited work on HTMl base for website. Was not very active this week due to being out of town with very limited internet access.

Oct. 15th

Met with client, was my first meeting, as class conflicted with first one. Worked to nail down exactly what was feasible within the realms of this project. Generated a list of requirements that met the clients standards with the team. Client mentioned being willing to pay for some features. Unsure of the viability of that. Client also wants a login page to limit user access. Unsure if that would go through us or the University. Worked to finish Django tutorial. Used Treehouse videos to work through the code. Unsure of starting point from here as client does not have hosting already set up so we will be working without access to server for awhile.

Oct. 8th

Had second team meeting with Professor Vidal. Team has confirmed another meeting with client. Need to better understand what client actually wants from this project and make sure they understand what we can realistically deliver. Discussed shortcomings of detailed designs. Continued my work on Django tutorial. About halfway through example code.

Sept. 30th

Had another meeting with group. Met Powell for the first time. Decided on Djanga(Python) as base for our web app. Finished detailed design wire mockups. Came to conclusions that must direct client more in what he is asking because app is too similar to Excel and requires too much work currently. Downloaded and started playing around with Djanga framework.

Sept. 22th

Missed client meeting due to class conflict. Read all notes taken at the meeting. Currently, Powell does not seem to be on either the Github or Gitter. Have acted as go-between for him and the rest of the group as much as possible. Drew out and submitted rough designs as the third concept for the milestone. Will have a meeting with the rest of the group on Monday where we need to finalize a framework and begin working on our rough workings with it. Need to begin research about if some of the APIs the clients are interested will be able to be utilized.

Sept. 17th

Watched lectures on Design, Architecture, and Web Applications

Sept. 7th

Attended first meeting with group. Established time to meet each week. Turned in first Milestone to Professor. Link to first meeting notes:https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkdDhWNrX_gV0V8XF_qLiBRAw5HL