The UI is pretty amazing. But why do the body tags appear empty when I see the view source?
Taking a quick look at her JS file shows that she's using backbone.js.
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About 80 days.
It's exciting to see how much your skills have improved over the course of the half year. I guess this proves a point that added complexity and learning new technology drastically adds to development time for those still learning to program. Also couple this with no extensive amount of development under their belt. Not to hijack this thread and solely to prove a point, take for example my startup weekend project. Jus…
Whoa, that's really impressive.
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Hm, I think I understand the problem. Back to the code to see if I can track it down. :)
Ok, figured it out! Should be all fixed now.
It got the right place, but it still can't find restaurants near me. I can do the restaurant search and it will find those restaurants near me.
If it helps, I am proxying through California, but I'm actually in Arizona
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About 80 days.
Was that 80 days, full time, 8hr per day? (Congratulations on your efforts, BTW.)
Pretty much. I took a few days off here and there for the holidays but other than that I've been working everyday on the project. Things were kind of slow in the beginning as I was learning a lot of new technology and adjusting to building more complex website but the pace picked up after I got a handle on things.
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#46The UI is pretty amazing. But why do the body tags appear empty when I see the view source?
Thanks! The front end uses Backbone.js so most of the content is rendered with Javascript. The backend uses Rails as an api which on page load sends along a barebones html doc for Backbone to latch on to and work its magic. You can check out the source code on GitHub - https://github.com/jendewalt/yumhacker
Thanks Jennifer. Btw, how did you manage to build 180 websites in 180 days. I mean what was your inspiration to conquer the streak?
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#47181 shipped projects now. Damn, that's impressive.
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Hm, I think I understand the problem. Back to the code to see if I can track it down. :)
Ok, figured it out! Should be all fixed now.
There probably aren't any restaurants in the database near your location. When you search for a specific restaurant, YumHacker checks it's database as well as querying the Google Places API to look for matches. If you endorse a restaurant, it will get saved in the database and it will appear on the map when you search nearby.
This is a UX problem I'll have to think about going forward.
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#49181 shipped projects now. Damn, that's impressive.
Thanks! It's been a crazy year. :)
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Awesome job finishing the site! On a personal note I spend a lot of time eating out, especially at really great restaurants (5 star) all over Miami and Fort Lauderdale, FL. I would love to start adding restaurants, comments, etc. to this app but there is no real "push" for me to do that. Maybe some gamification? Points/rewards/mentions/etc. so that I feel like i'm gaining something by contributing? Just a thought. Th…
That is an excellent point and something I've been thinking about as well. One thought I've had is adding some sort of rating system where people who are active on the site get promoted as 'Awesome people who have good taste' (working title). I'm also thinking about ways to make the site more useful on a personal level.
Hi Jennifer, I really like the site, but I'm wondering if there is any way to add more restaurants?
Santa Barbara has a lot of great places, but I'm only seeing a few to choose from :)