1st meeting

we met last wednesday for the first time officially to get work done.

erik also met us in the CSB 115 lab.  we spent a lot of time figuring out our possibilities and whether changing the color scheme of facebook was do-able.  there was the talk about firefox plug-ins.

we all added the Developer application.  erik told us about AppJet which was a nice in-between platform between the user and Facebook.  but apparently, it’s unreliable.  so we created an application and spent a lot of time finding out what exactly we were going to do.

Jill came up with the idea of Snapple “Real Facts”.  you know, the caps always have random facts underneath the lid… and it seemed to really agree with what Facebook allows.  we also spent some time looking through all the applications that were already created.  my goodness!  there were soooo many!  previously, before the Snapple idea, there was the idea of doing a Guess Who? game but using your mutual friends as the faces.  we looked, and someone already made one!  it was so discouraging… we’d come up with a really exciting idea and we find out that our original brilliant brainchild was already done by someone else.

but we looked up Snapple and there weren’t any…  and then erik mentioned that there might be some copyright issues.  so we thought really hard… .pretty much the entire time when Jen finally came up with a winner.

TopsBottom. 
What’s under YOUR lid? 

hehe… get it?  the facts are on the bottom of the top of the bottle…

then today in class, we went over the Facebook API and it really helped.  it seemed … straightforward in a sense.  but i feel like when we actually try to do it, there will be so many confusing complications.  but anyway, no point in imagining future troubles.

we’re meeting tomorrow bright and early at 8am and working straight til 12 noon.  our goal is to get what Erik got done in class today, which was:

1.  Set up a box in the profile.
2.  Set up an Application page.
3.  Set up a link in the Side Nav.
4.  Display something in the News Feed.

the next week, we want to get some functionality, images, and understanding of Javascript, AJAX, and Facebook merging of the two…  see the schedule for our project page for more details…