September 7, 2015 Log No. 397

And here I thought they just really liked that one Greek hero from the Iliad. (There was one, right?) But maybe that’s partially why they branded it that way; I mean, Asynchronous Javascript XMLHTTPRequest kinda has backronym written all over it.

It’s pretty cool incorporating it into our Rails projects. Now everything (Rails, HTML/CSS, and JS) is coming together! At this point, in theory, we can build the apps we see all over the internet these days. (Granted, we haven’t yet spent time to make anything really polished yet, but that’s what the capstone project is for!) It’s a lot of moving pieces (updating views, models, js files/events, routes, and controllers) but I actually find it not terrible to keep track of because of how CONCRETE it is: if I am on so-and-so page, wouldn’t it make sense that the views are in so-and-so folder, the js scripts are named so-and-so, etc etc? So I’m having a pretty good time orchestrating everything.

But I think a lot of it is tied to how concrete overall I find HTML to be, and right now I still think of sites as structured around their HTML pages. Now, in the upcoming week, we’re about to start backbone, which seems like a more JS-y way of thinking of sites (something something one page website something?)