Looking forward to an exciting summer!
As the title suggests, I’m quit excited about working with all of you in the Cosi JBS this summer. At the end of the two month summer component of the JBS, I expect that all of you will have become...
View ArticleEugene’s Introduction
Hello everyone. I am doing the fifth year program for COSI. I want to come of the JBS having completed a high quality, finished product. Feel free to respond in the comments and start a conversation...
View ArticleIntroduction from Pito
So we’re about a week out from beginning. I know most of you are focused on other things right now, but I am focused on the start. I was looking at the list of product ideas and there’s some cool stuff...
View ArticleRuby Method of the Week: Symbol#to_proc
This is definitely a bit of Ruby magic: the to_proc method for Symbols. You can read about it here and in the Ruby book, but an example helps a lot: This: %w{a b c d e f}.map(&:upcase) is...
View ArticleMAGIC!
Before I started working on rails (about 2 weeks ago) I had only ever coded websites the long hard way – taking a looooong time to add links and make sure everything stayed up to date. However, rails...
View ArticleEvent Calendar
My idea for my personal app is not my idea . The concert manager for brandeis asked me to make an iPhone (which i translated to “smart phone”) app for managing and listing all of the upcoming arts...
View ArticleAffordance in everyday things
Affordance, as I understand it, is the extent to which objects convey their proper usage patterns to users. Items with high affordance make their proper uses obvious, which items with low affordance...
View ArticleUser stories for Definitious Mobile – HW 18A
Story 1: John can’t fall asleep. He wants to pass the time until he is tired. He opens up the definitious mobile app and entertains himself with random words. He could go on Facebook mobile, but he...
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