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    /(Regular Expressions|Grossness)/

    By Mary Chou

    This week I ventured into the world of regular expressions. For anyone who hasn't had this pleasure/misfortune, regular expressions are basically javascript's way of writing generalized strings,...

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    Into the Code

    By Mary Chou

    Atalie and I are working on remixes this semester. Remixing isn't very present on the site, appearing only on the world show pages and as a sorting option in the worlds index. Caitlin has built...

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    Working on Tag Search

    By Mary Chou

    This week I tweaked the remix partial a bit, in preparation for there being no remix show page. I still need to finish the javascript so that you can click on it and have the same effects as when...

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    Searching

    By Mary Chou

    This week Atalie and I pair programmed our way through a lot of the bugs in searching/ tagging in the edge branch. This break from remixes was in preparation for the new release, which occurred...

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    [Tag] Cloudy with a Chance of Remixes

    By Mary Chou

    Hello! It turns out I've forgotten to blog again for a bit. So last week Atalie and I started trying to get the tag cloud in place on the remixes page, for easier browsing. We got it to a point...

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    Partials and Planning

    By Mary Chou

    This week I fixed some things about the remix partial that were mentioned at last week's meeting about the location of the toolbar links, and what does and doesn't show up when the video is...

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    Study Prep

    By Mary Chou

    In gearing up for the Science Center user study, I talked with Kyle this week about how we will integrate tutorials and remix searching. The plan is to have a laptop and a monitor, so that the...

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    Things Mostly Work, What a Concept!

    By Mary Chou

    We didn't get any participants last week at the Science Center, which was a bit of a let down, but we're headed back tomorrow, so hopefully we'll get some kids then. This week we've fixed a lot...