Overview

• Preliminaries.
  • Admin.
  • Questions.
• Presentations.
  • Resource Portal.
  • Board Bank.
  • Robotexter.
  • GAMT
• Open Work Time.

Preliminaries

Admin

• Your final time will be used for your final presentations.
• Your grade in this class will depend on
  • Your final portfolios - individual and group (instructions around Thanksgiving)
  • Your participation and attendance in class.
  • Some assessment of bi-weekly presentations.

Questions

Resource Portal

• Requires most of the fields on entering things.
• Playing with CSS to get new appearances.
• Need to add a login system.
• No cucumber tests.
• Sorting.
• Maybe filtering.
• Long-term: Nearest to us.
• What challenges did you run into?
  • How do we make fields required?
  • Storing data in a database. Thanks Marcel.
• Michael: How did you use Bootstrap? A challenge
  • Using a HAML format for Bootstrap.
• Larry: How is Bootstrap working.
• Lots of copy and paste and "look, it works".
• Emma: What's your workflow? Git trunk!

Board Bank

• Goal: Connect non-profit organizations with people who are interested with serving them.
• Two-way connections.
• They are doing the searches right now using elastic search
• They get approximate matches (yay elasatic search).
• Which columns.
• Getting elastic search to work right was a bit of a challenge.
• Albert: How hard was it?
  • A bit complicated.
• Albert: Why elastic search?
  • Works with Heroku
  • Lots of people use it.
• They have a not-found case.
• Ezra: What were your cucumber scenarios? What were your challenges?
• Ezra: Have you pushed to Heroku?

Timely Notifications

• Goal: Sending messages to student parents.
• They want it asap.
• Privacy laws suggest that teachers should only see the students in their classroom.
• They added a classroom field to the teachers table.
• Turned out to be more cmoplex than they thought.
• Migration is built, but it's not working.
• Use Twillio to get this work.
• David: It looks like anyone can add classrooms?
• Abraham: Should we have multiple parents?
• Discuss with client: How many entries per student?
• Larry: WHo is bankrolling the sending.
• Challenges?
  • Migrating tables.
  • Figuring out the database structure.
  • Better correspondence of things.
  • Figuring out more of the SQL.

GrantApp

• Worried about edge cases this week.
• Doing a nice job of moving from use cases
• Need to improve UI.
• Zhi: HOw did you de