WDI Progress Update - Advanced Rails Caching, SASS, Websockets, Javascript Evolution & Frameworks, Group Project Implementation

Challenges

• Backbone.js and Burning Airlines - 6 hrs preparing Burning Airlines MVC for Flights on 13th Mar:
• Problems fixed thanks to help from team in the morning:
• Missing from app.js
• Async call to fetch flight collection model and Router
• Correction in FlightsController
• 'respond_with @flights' instead of 'respond_with :json => @flights' to prevent embedded JSON
• Removing JBuilder.json file that was merged after git pull from master, and caused only id and url to appear at URL /flights/flights.json (code previously pushed compiled successfully and listed flights)
• Binding(this) to enable Search button functionality for on-click 
• Debugging in Chrome Inspect Element using CMD+' to skip to next line of code for testing, and hovering over variables to show current value 
• Pomodoro Time Management

Progress @ General Assembly (GA)

• Group Airline Project (Implementation)
• Team: Marcus Hoile, Sam Peters, Alberto Forni, Luke Schoen
• Javascript Evolution
• JS Framework Types: 
• Full-stack - Derby (real-time apps), Sails (like Rails), Meteor (new with potential security issues)
• Front-end - Backbone.js, Marionette, Knockout, React, CanJS
• Front-end + Datamining - Angular, Ember
• Back-end frameworks, Websockets, 
• Templating - Handlebars
• Other: Batman, Express Polymer, Socketstream, Clojure
• Websockets (Socket.io to manage HTML5 websockets, real-time control to sync broadcast changes without overhead HTTP)
• Proxy Servers - NGrok
• Separate Loading Templates - .jst.ejs and Global Namespaces
• Caching in Rails
• Client-side & Server-side (Page, Action, Fragment)
• ActionPageCaching GEM
• ActionPackCaching GEM
• Rake Task Sweepers
• SQL Query Caching
• Memcache, Nullcache
• SASS (Nested, Interpolating Content, Variables, Mixins, Cross-File Mixins, Inheritance, Pseudo Selectors, Asset Pipeline, Image-Path and Asset-Path for Production)
• Presentation TankStream Labs
• Key Takeaways:
• Lifestyle & Work
• Startup Org Fit Evaluation Essentials
• Recording Skills
• Cocurricular and Coding
• Language Agility
• Erlang, Haskell
• Terminology & Tools
• Strong Parameters
• Async Processing and Delays (SidekiQ + Reddis)
• Scheduling Processes (Cron + Whenever)
• XML Parsing (Nokogiri)
• PDF (Prawn, PDFQueue)
• Debugging (Pry)
• Uploading Files (Paperclip, Carrierwave)
• Sublime GEMS (GEM Browser, Git Extensions)
• JSON (JBuilder, JSON Serializers, Draper)
• Image Resizing (LibXML image munging, Image Magic)
• Communicate Validation in Natural Language (Chronic, Chronorails GEM)

Purchases

• Javascript The Good Parts  (Read 25%)

Events

• Fisburners - Chat with Mark (Movie guru), met David (recommended Founders Institute), Dimitri, Jenny, and Matthews B'day