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  Getting Down to the Details (Week 9)

  By Mary Chou

  At the group meetings, we have been talking about redesigning the navigation and subnavigation bars, such that the profile drop down elements be incorporated into the main bar. I think a group...

  • Jul 26, 2012
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  Poster Pandemonium (Week 10)

  By Mary Chou

  Friday we will all be participating in an Undergraduate Research Symposium, thus this was poster week. Each poster is supposed to sum up the research we've done this summer, so mine covers the user...

  • Aug 02, 2012
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  Wrapping Up (Week 11)

  By Mary Chou

    This week I got rid of more ".each" statements, which use arrays and slow things down. I turned these into database queries and cleaned up the magic sort code, removing some unnecessary...

  • Aug 09, 2012
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  Stepping back into the code (9/10-9/14)

  By Mary Chou

  Last week was busy, with classes getting started and all, and I really only had time to set up the developer environment. We've switched (from using Netbeans and Git Bash) to solely using...

  • Sep 14, 2012
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  Week of (9/17-9/21)

  By Mary Chou

  It's been a very weird week, and honestly, I haven't managed to spend very much time working on the community this week. I'm still finishing up the process of moving the code from this summer to...

  • Sep 21, 2012
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  Sharing Worlds with Other Users, and More

  By Mary Chou

  Apologies in advance for the length of this... TLDR: Recap of last week plus newer stuff at the bottom. So plans have changed, and I’m not going to be working on the help/mentor stuff with...

  • Oct 12, 2012
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  Unfollowing and Database Drafts

  By Mary Chou

  When I moved the summer code over, I moved all of it but deactivated (commented out) some things, such as the partials I made. In order to get the magic sort code ready to be put on the site,...

  • Oct 18, 2012
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  Linking

  By Mary Chou

  I've decided to call the system I'm working on "linking". I think that for every permutation of things I want to connect, "linking" or "sending a link" can be an appropriate description, and that...

  • Nov 01, 2012
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  Links in Action (PUNS!)

  By Mary Chou

  For this week, I decided not to focus on figuring out how users will select the item they want to share a link to without having to scroll through a list of every item on the site. Towards the end...

  • Nov 08, 2012
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  Displaying Links

  By Mary Chou

  After many failed attempts at changing form inputs' ids, I finally got the link form to send the correct receiver type, albeit via some sketchy string splitting in the controller. So yay for that...

  • Nov 15, 2012
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