W8

In class we discussed details about the project as a group. Assigned final tasks to each one.

The project is almost done. Selecting available times is implemented, posted on database. Now we are fixing bugs and details.
Next week I will try to fix a problem selecting times and then scrolling down, which causes to display the selected times on wrong places (after scrolling).
James just submitted a interface enhancement: when the user clicks outside the add meeting box, the box disappears. The 'escape' key does the same too.

W7

No readings posted on the webpage for this week. We had the last presentation groups.
The project is going very well. I just finished working on the style of the select available times mode (screenshot). We are very exited the project is going steady.

W6

Class: We had presentations.
Readings: No readings for this week.
Project: The groups is in heavy development stage using CVS.

W5: Class and Readings

Class: Document Object Model (DOM) and More JavaScript

This week's classes we learned about DOM. DOM provides a structural representation of a document, viewing HTML as a tree of elements. DOM also provides us a collection of JavaScript objects, properties and methods. I didn't know about DOM, interesting to see this representation for HTML and XML.
We then saw a picture gallery example with Javascript. Then we saw more Javascript: Events, Forms, Variables. Then we saw Cookies. Nothing too exiting to me. I've seen it before.

Reading 1: JavaScript Tutorial: W3C DOM Introduction

Easy and straight forward DOM tutorial. It deepened the DOM material exposed on class that was more of a theory introduction. This guide had also a practical approach so I could see all the DOM tools in action. I never knew this existed. I ended up reading not only the W3C DOM introduction, but: DOM nodes and tree, DOM tables, DOM CSS, DOM events, DOM objects and methods

Reading 2: Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web Response

As the author says, I learned that the only thing that is unchangeable and unalterable and users can't mess with it on a webpage is the markup. The article underlines the proper meaning of markup as an organization. The article is mainly theory, the first half being a xhtml review. The exercises helped apply the tree structure theory. I liked how by the last part we get to DOM, but undestanding a lot more of the implementation.

Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Offered optimal solutions to common problems within the specific context of AJAX. The code is done for us to use.

Homeworks 1, 2 and 3

I have finalized the series of homeworks for weeks 3, 4 and 5.
I made a simple photo gallery, my work can be found in:
HW1: HTML
HW2: HTML+CSS
HW3: HTML+CSS+Javascript

W5: Project

As posted on the blog, this week we had our first concrete and important meeting. We agreed on the steps and tasks we needed to do and assigned some tasks to everyone.