w7d2 - Rssky Business

(Full credit for this post’s name goes to my partner for today, Jacob… Genius!)    

    Day 2 of Backbone went a lot smoother than Day 1. We were tasked with building an app to manage RSS feeds, which wasn’t too hard by itself. Of course the challenge was to get everything to happen by using Backbone to make asynchronous server requests and simply re-rendering the page instead of loading a new one. Going through the process again today helped me to understand the Backbone work flow a little more, and by the end of the day we had a pretty cool application built.

    This was mostly due to the fact that we finished the main functionality fairly early in the day and proceeded to spend some time working on the sites presentation using CSS. This has resulted in the best looking application I’ve produced so far, which gave us a nice sense of accomplishment. So many of our projects are focused on functionality, but it’s nice to get a little design in here and there, especially when the application already works like its supposed to.

    In related news, we are going to be starting our FINAL PROJECTS soon, which everyone is really excited for! We have the next couple of days to choose, though I’m sure most of us have been thinking about it since Day 1, when we saw the previous class present their projects. I have a few ideas for what I want to do, but I still have some time to fully decide. The moment we’ve been preparing for is almost here!