WDI Progress Update - Final Project (Littlehumans), Brainstorming, Mock Interviews, Codium

Challenges

• Littlehumans (Medical App for Midwives and Parents of New Born Children)
• Problems faced
• Combined OAuth Login (Facebook, Twitter, Google) with Devise spend all day Saturday trying to get it to work in Production environment (managed to get Google, Facebook, and Twitter to work)
• See 'About Us' page at the Littlehumans website for other challenges
• Dancing at Karaoke!

Progress @ General Assembly (GA)

• Littlehumans Final Project
• Heroku Link: Littlehumans App    
• Tech Stack: View the 'About Us' page at the link above
• Purpose: Midwife app for Midwives and Parents to track and share New Born Baby information and key Moments (input from my partner who is a professional midwife)
• Sunday Javascript - with Daniel Tsui
• Challenging Tests
• Immediately Invoked Function (IIFE)
• .Then
• Hoisting
• First Class Citizen
• Javascript Ecosystem - Presentation by Je Turnbull
• Multi-paradigm (MPM) and styles 
• Automation and Task Runners
• Package Management
• JS Essential Knowledge and Tools
• Front-end Job Questions
• JS Testing
• Scope and Closures
• Recommended Books
• Codium Group Project
• Twitter Gem - Solved ability to scrape blog posts

Curiosity

• CodeKit
• Compass
• Edge Animate

WDI Progress Update - Data Structures, Recursion (Towers of Hanoi), Codium Group Project, RSpec, Twitter Gems, Secret Keys, Amazon Web Services

Challenges

• Problems fixed (lesson learnt: >4 hrs sleep required to RSpec effectively) 
• RSpec refactoring (special attention!)- Thanks Taryn East
• Activity Monitor & Which- Thanks Pranava Swaroop for tip on how to kill Mac tasks, and how to find which directory my Git was installed in 'which git'
• Text navigation - Thanks Daniel Tsui for tip on how to navigate text quickly with ALT+Arrow

Progress @ General Assembly (GA)

• Computer Science (Data Structures {Queues, Stacks, Linked Lists {Nodes, Values, Pointers} }, LILO, FIFO, Random Access VS Binary Search) 
• Codium Group Project
• Gems Tested (Twitter Feed Scraper): 
• Twitter Gem
• Anemone Gem (Crawl, parse DOM, and harvest, but JS security issue without innerText)
• Secret Keys Setup: Heroku, Devise, Twitter
• Pry Debugging

Progress @ Development of New Products & Services (UNSW)

• Unit 3 - Organisational Strategy & NPD DONE
• Unit 4 - Idea Generation IN PROGRESS - must finish on w/e before Final Project week

Curiosity

• Amazon Web Services - Thanks GA for Voucher! (must remember to use it by June 2014!)
• SQL & Data Structures - Revise Engineering Notes! (eww..)
• Anchor - may be the solution to my Rails and broader web hosting problems