w7d4 - var Wars II: Attack of the Clones

    Today we started the process of cloning Trello, as we gear up for our final projects next week. It isn’t completely from scratch, as we were given a basic skeleton with user authentication and basic models already provided. We are mainly using this to polish up our Backbone skills, and get some experience using jbuilder as well. It felt good to be able to go at my own pace today, as there are certain things in Backbone that I feel I have a good grasp on, and other things that I feel like I need work on. I went slower in the areas where I needed some reinforcement and I think it’s really helped to solidify my understanding of Backbone.

    Today was mostly focused on fleshing out the basic functionality, and getting things to render on the right screens. Towards the end of the day I started added a little bit of style and it was already started to look a bit Trello-like. Tomorrow will be spent on finishing up the functionality and adding some more polish. The project has been designed with bootstrap in mind, so there will be some nifty things that I’ll be able to include that I otherwise wouldn’t have time to figure out. If I have time, there are a few features that I’d like to add in that weren’t explicitly mentioned in the assignment; maybe I should make a list of features on Trello…