Weekly Update for 5/22

[Nima]

Hey guys,

Post your weekly updates here. Here's mine.

What did I do?

Finished the DirectionService on the backend.
Fixed three bugs on the hygiene backlog.
Implemented infinite scroll for the ListWidget.
Wrote the technical specification (total failure).


Challenges?

The technical specification has a very misleading title...
I realized a major structural problem with our architecture.
Rather than having two events, one for location and one for deals, we
should have one event (the deals event) that gets fired whenever
anything changes. The location, filters, dealOffset (for paginating
the deals for infinite scroll), and radius all need to be stored
within the deals model. Whenever anyone updates a single one of these
fields, it is their responsibility to make a call to the dealService
to update the deals arraylist. Once the deals arraylist has been
updated, then an event should be fired.
I still can't figure out how to make the deals load faster without
slowing the scrolling feature. Will contact people on the GWT team at
Google for a solution.

What did we do well?

We have amazing momentum. I feel like everyone is now able to
contribute and we've surprisingly been keeping up with our milestones
(if not surpassing them).
Considering where we are in development, the website looks more
polished than I had anticipated; nevertheless, more polish is always
good.
The backend (other than Facebook integration) is complete.
Our meetings are productive.

[Jessica Tai]

Work this week

Made edits to SRS version 2 and 3

Changes to the deal items layout/style

Added links

Attempted to fully implement directions opposed to just a map of the deal venue... still need to look into how to utilize the directionsService

Challenges

Figuring out what Jerrid wants for the SRS.. how to improve our use cases

Next week

complete directions

complete map binding

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Jessica Tai

Computer Science, UCLA

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[David Yang]

Work this week

Changed LocationWidget to allow the user to change the address

Challenges

Eclipse issues, the GWT-Bootstrap project has several bugs

Next week

Work on the tech spec, improve the LocationWidget's UI more

[Andrew Le]

Helped Uen-Tao modify the markers. 

Looking more into the bug that distorts the Infowindow on the google map. I thought that my fix by changing the CSS was permanent but it was reverted later on. 

[Uen-Tao Wang]

Representing work done both by Andrew and myself:

Work this week

Added a handler to automatically update the location upon dragging the map location. 

Added a function that can center the map on a deal marker and pull up the InfoWindow if given a deal.

Restructured GoogleMapsWidget so that you can add or remove markers individually.

Added a radius variable so that the radius (in miles) represented by the Google Maps Widget is always known.

Began work on custom icons for markers.

Challenges

Getting the CSS files to update along with the rest of the project.

Next Week

Integrate the MapWidget with the ListItemWidget (clicking on an item centers the map at the item's marker and vice versa).

Implementing custom labels.

Cleaning up and finalizing code.

Getting the CSS files to update along with the rest of the project. 

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Jessica Tai

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[Aditya Modi]

What did I do

Social Media integration

Started to work on facebook events

researched on what exactly is to be written in "Tech Spec doc"

Challenges

Integrating FB events with GWT is a pain since there are not enough libraries available to do that

Figuring out what is to be written in a "Tech Spec doc"

Next week

Integrate FB events

[Rohit Seth]

Work this week

Made some changes to the front end design and SRS

Challenges

Not entirely sure what Jerrid wants for the SRS.  Few glitches in front end made it hard to implement some changes.

Next week

Make the front end more intuitive and flow better.