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
  • 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

Sam (sfoster)

• 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

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• 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