Pancake/Team/Meetings/2012-09-10

Gordon (gbrander)

Design concepts for
- Type-ahead search
- Search results
- Updates screen
- Lv 0 tabs
Started prototyping HTML/CSS for French Toast https://github.com/gordonbrander/french-toast-html
Recorded design/engineering decisions and resources on Wiki
- Created project page on Wiki for everything French Toast https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/French_Toast
- Wrote up user scenarios and approaches for:
  - App messaging https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/French_Toast/Message_API
  - Client-side store (via conversation with sfoster) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/French_Toast/Store
  - IO/AJAX (via conversation with sfoster) https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/French_Toast/IO
  - Layer navigation behavior https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/UX/Navigation
  - Search https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/UX/Search
  - Type-ahead search https://wiki.mozilla.org/Pancake/UX/Type-ahead_Search

Front-end architecture prototype dev
- Ajax middleware implemented for request and response filtering/adapting
- LocalStorage store implementation; reactive, localStorage-backed app settings
- EventEmitter-based 'streams' join data APIs to viewModel properties
- Knockout.js 'wireTo' extension to hook an observable array to a stream
- Troubleshooting data flow and promises - now using promised-io's promise.js (unmodified)
FE status: https://github.com/mozillapancake/pancake-ft-client
- 'install' using volo not working - vendor/js is populated in the git repo and should work as-is
- Load search/index.html as '/search/' to see current state of play (not much to see)

This week

Hook up persona and session tokens to id and authenticate user (populating settings.username())
Build out dashboard, list and detail view templates to work on flow between "pages"
On-going API/data implementation to populate viewModels

Past week:

Implemented various algorithms from research papers, for the recommendation portion of the proof of concept
Validated approach with Diffbot and others. Apparently Twitter uses the same set of techniques to recommend users.
Started on Java implementation for POC

This week: