I missed a blog entry! I did so since our illustrious TA is leaving a week early and our going-away-party lasted into the wee hours of Wednesday night/Thursday morning. I'm proud to report that I did my part to uphold GoCode's honor at the fussball table.
In other news, catfinder progress continues at a snail's pace. I am, however, learning quite a lot.
After my glorious discovery of custom template tags (all the way back on Tuesday) I was faced with a daunting prospect of a lot of cumbersome in-template dictionary lookups and for-loops with for-loops within for-loops. So I went back to the drawing board and figured out a way of creating a custom object in the views.py that holds all the relevant data from the 4 lookup tables neccessary for the "local cats page" (each cat with multiple sightings, each sighting with multiple pictures and a single (human) user). Bonus: since it's a single object it can be serialized and returned as a JSON object should (when!) FriendlyCatFinder.com becomes an important information source.
I can just imagine the code schools of future with projects based around Yelp clones that show bars in a certain area, modified by number of accessible cats within walking distance.
Wednesday morning was a tutorial in Amazon S3 for image hosting, and getting django to upload the image and save the resulting path. Woo.
Today was spent in integrating the file upload and modifying it work with my forms. And getting my "new sighting" form to store everything properly. I don't know why it took so long to do, even with ignoring any kind of styling at all.
My plan, such as it is, is to get all the pieces working, and to make it look good afterwards. Otherwise, I know I'll get stuck in an endless loop of tweaking css to make the corners of my form boxes just the perfect degree of roundness.
Done: front page, login, logout, new user, admin functionality, local cats, new sighting, new cat, image uploads
To do: get google maps api working (BIG), user profiles, user editing existing info
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