Stress-Induced Archives
Cocktailist: a Whirlwind Tour
Tl;dr: http://cocktailist.club
9/15: Capstone day 1! Seems good so far except heroku doesn’t want to refresh my latest files, hmmmm. Will have to figure that out. http://cocktailist.herokuapp.com
9/16: Worked on site more:
- Linked up feeds to entries
- Make show entry page
- Add Metadata to feeds
- Make add new form
So there’s a Q and a Stack…
Well that would explain a lot about Javascript, aha. Today was characterized by trying to debug the same issue for an hour or so, and then learning about this fundamental structure. “But wait, why doesn’t it ever stop for input?! Javascript sucks!” Ok, in this case, PEBCAK.
So I guess I better get used to deeply nested function calls in these server-side scripts where user input is involved. But looking at tomorrow’s reading materials, client-side stuff has handlers and more natural asynchronous treatment, so I am looking forward to that. Although not so sure I’ll be as big a fan of JS’s “prototype inheritance.”
Also spent some time this weekend developing DiscoverIt more. Got it up at http://1.discoverit.arielity.net. Slowly chugging along on that.
Javascript…
the ellipses say it all.
I mean, it is just day 1. But it’s definitely hard getting used to its idiosyncrasies after Ruby. -0?! That must be the most creative number I’ve ever seen. And 3 equal signs is just too much. Typing out .equals is almost faster. At least it would be a little more english-y than a row of ===.
But. I do like the return of semicolons, explicit returns, and (kinda) explicit declarations. I know. I’m weird like that.