Day before deadline

Some days late but now we are here the day before the deadline and we can finally see some big changes in the project. Almost all of the programming is done, you can now drag down the buttons to update, sort, go back and go forward. You can also change the genre to the one that you want (5 genres available at the moment: Action & Adventure, Children, Comedy, Drama and Science Fiction & Fantasy).

The things that we have left is to show what’s in the shopping cart and fixing some small bugs before we are done.

You can fint a working prototype of the Jey Store here: http://www.alvione.com/jeystore/ By the way don’t look at the design….

The project has been really great to working with and we have learnt a lot what you really can do with this drag and drop idea, and that is a lot. Here’s a little snapshot of the jeystore:

The Feed from Amazon.co.uk works really well, although the price sorting is a bit confusing since the feed we get is based on the lowest price among private retailers, not the Amazon stock price (which we currently display on in the store).

A little unplanned bonus was also created today. As soon as I (Johannes) was done with the drop code for the functions I was supposed to start with the Shopping Cart. But I really didn’t feel inspired to do that so I started off playing the an alternative way of selecting pages. It was almost uncanny how easy it was to create a page selector slider in javascript! And HEY! We’re not using any frameworks here. All code is done from scratch. Click on the page counter to open the slide and enjoy as you can go about 40 pages in any direction with just one click and drag. Don’t go to far ahead though, since there seem to be a bug on Amazons behalf that says that there are several thousand pages when there in fact is “merely” a couple of hundred. If you encounter a blank page you have passed the limit of actual pages… I’m off for today. Hopefully the rest of the planned functionality will be working be Monday, when our definitive deadline is.

• May 1st, 2008