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  Collapsing Levels

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week I continued to chip away at the implementation of the badges info page. I was able to expand the levels last week, so this week I worked on collapsing them. At first, I thought it would...

  • Oct 18, 2012
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  Colors in the Badge Info Page

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week I continued to work on implementing the design for the badges info page. In process, I had a lot of opportunity to think about color. In particular, how we are giving meaning to different...

  • Oct 25, 2012
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  Useful Categories of Worlds

  By Reilly Ellis

  I started this week by finishing up the badge icons. They are (for the most part) done in pure CSS. This is exciting because it means less images to upload (and make) and less code to maintain when...

  • Nov 01, 2012
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  Javascript and Active Record Bliss

  By Reilly Ellis

  After pulling my hair out last week trying to figure out why javascript wasn’t working, I was kind of dreading working on the page this week. Thankfully, a couple days away from the problem...

  • Nov 08, 2012
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  Badges Index Page: the beginning

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week, I decided to start re-doing the badges index page. The purpose of this page is to give the users an introduction to badges, incentivise them to earn badges, and point them in the...

  • Nov 14, 2012
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  On to testing

  By Reilly Ellis

    This week is the start of an exciting step in the badges project – testing.   I met with Aaron and Kyle and we came up with a game plan for how we want the rest of the...

  • Nov 30, 2012
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  Code Tests Wishlist

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week I continued working on implementing the code tests using Aaron’s interface. Although Aaron has made a really awesome system, there is nothing like actually trying to use a system to...

  • Dec 06, 2012
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  Expanded Code Tests WishList

  By Reilly Ellis

  As requested, this is the updated Code Test Wishlist as of 12/7/12   High Priority A way to filter out code that is disabled. I tried using expressionStatement.isEnabled() but got...

  • Dec 07, 2012
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  Found: the encasing method

  By Reilly Ellis

  I began this week by making a todo list for what I need to get done to get badges up and running. For the immediate future, my task is continue writing code tests for different categories of skills...

  • Jan 24, 2013
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  Helper Methods for Code Tests?

  By Reilly Ellis

  This week, I continued to work on code tests. In doing so,  I came up with a couple of API Methods that I’m really excited about. isFoundInOrCalledFromMyFirstMethod() (mouthful of a...

  • Jan 31, 2013
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