Dreams (often Weird):
- Woke up 5:50am 22nd Feb (after the #rubyconfau14 afterparty and thai dinner with friends). Vividly remember being on small boat with some others in unchartered areas in Northern Europe under the guidance of an important and influential leader. He mentioned that missing historical maps were thought to have been located there. I found one, and it chartered new territories in Northern Russian across to North-East Asia
Reality Checks:
- Area 51 New Site Staging Zone - Whilst reviewing all the StackOverflow badges to strive toward, I came across the 'Precognitive' badge, which recognises those (where 'those' === null) who followed StackOverflows proposal on Area 51 New Site Staging Zone (their proposal didn't exist, because Area 51 came about after StackOverflow had already reached the commitment phase). This site looks amazing, it's incredible refreshing to discover that a solution to one of your ideas already exists, and given my prevailing passion for the concept, it provides a perfect platform to launch into new territories. Area 51 has followed a similar thought-process to what I was aspiring toward when I created Trendmyhunch, with the exception of a few key differentiators!!
Links:
Challenges:
- ToDo Lab and Memory Game Lab in jQuery
- Thanks to Luke Mesiti for highlighting structure for on-click functionality without nesting i.e. $('#game').on('click', '.column', function() { )
- Thanks to Nick Morgan for sharing the awesome Memory Game solution he prepared with Alberto Forni
- Git Real, Try Git
- Group Project planning (starts on 24th Feb!)
- Update CV (reflecting on teachings from Tarun Mookhey)
Dreams (often Weird):
- Woke up in the early hours of the 21st Feb (after an early night). Aware I'd been dreaming about code, my mind was racing. I'd fallen asleep wearing an uncomfortable collared shirt. Mentally I couldn't convince myself to take it off and go back to sleep, somewhat thinking my body's variable scope and functions wouldn't compile with a t-shirt on instead?
Progress @ General Assembly (GA)
- jQuery - (Selectors, Events, DOM Manipulation {Methods, Transitions, Scoping, This, Propagation with Parents Children, API, Validations, Search Form Caching, Templating, Underscore JS, Interpolation instead of Concatenation)
- AJAX - (A-synchronous Javascript and XML for requesting data specific data without refreshing entire pages of code using HTTP request, Short Hand Methods, getJSON using jQuery.ajax method, Debugger, Sinatra server to request data followed by AJAX to mitigate authorisation issues, Checking Response States and Callback Success Status, Refactoring to avoid Nesting, Refactoring to increase notation Flexibility, Callbacks {Done, Fail, Always}, Wrapping Form Submit Event with AJAX request to retrieve JSON)
- Presentation by Tarun Mookhey (Founder of Pacifica Search) - Employer Types, Salaries, Developer Hotspots, Individual and Group Blogs, CV's, LinkedIn, GitHub, Portfolios, Job Applications
Events:
- SydJS (Atlassian All Stars) - Attended 19th Feb
- Networked with Jonathon Creenaune (presented JS1K), Issac Gerges (presented Node.js for fun and profit), Chris Darroch (referred me to AMD), Jed Wesley-Smith (Atlassian and band SuperMassive), Ben Buchanan (great chat!), Phil Reither (great chat!)
- RubyConf - Attending 20-21st Feb
