WDI Progress Update - Helpers, Authentication, Individual Project

Challenges:

1. Starting individual project (due 9th Feb) - Artificial intelligence hunch evaluator

          -------> Update 7:30pm 1st Feb: 

Backed up progress on version of AI app so far and uploaded to Luke's Github account, only includes very basic functionality to create robots, assign them senses, retain senses even when robots deleted, and allow them to be reassigned to other robots, but otherwise quite ugly still (no CSS, alignment, etc)! 

• Gem 'will_paginate', database column Hashes, Serialization
• Gem 'bundler' (Bundler.io), Rails bootstrap-sass

Progress @ General Assembly (GA):

• Rails (View and Form Helpers, basic HTTP Authentication)

WDI Progress Update - Ruby, Sinatra, ActiveRecord, Sinatra, PostGreSQL, Rails MVC

Challenges:

1. Validations, SMTP
2. Homework bugs!!! 
3. Data Validation with ActiveRecord

Progress @ General Assembly (GA)

• Sublime Text 2 (Shift-CMD-R align multiple text lines, CMD+? to comment multiple lines)
• Ruby (Object Relationship Mapping ORM)
• Rails (Model View Controller MVC architecture, Deployment to Production using Heroku with GemFile, Scaffolding with database rake migration entire CRUD apps)
• Ruby Gems - (ActiveRecord, ActiveRecord Associations, HATM, Callbacks, PostGreSQL, Validations, Bundler for deployment)
• SQL (PostGres app, commands, tables, joins, foreign keys, CRUD)
• Tapestry Presentation on Front-End Development by Phil Reither

Progress @ Intro to Startup Entrepeneurship

• Unit 1 finished on 27th Jan !! Next steps: 
• Unit 1 - Lesson 7 Independent study activities, participate in online forum, create app based on learnings
• Unit 2 - UX, can't wait to start!!

Events:

• Attended meetup Startup Sydney on 23rd Jan @GA

Curiosity:

• Tank Stream Labs (startup community)
• Behavioural retargeting
• Gamification
• RescueTime
• StrongLoop
• Grails
• Universal design principles (accessibility): Haptics, Tactus, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
• Trends API
• CSS animations
• WebGL
• WebM format
• Paralax
• Caniuse.com (compatibility checker)
• Flinto.com (IOS Prototypes, Wireframing)
• Railcasts

Off Topic:

• Magna Carta