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    New frontpage

    By Reilly Ellis

    At our Friday work morning last week, Caitlin, Mary and I came up with a sketch for the new frontpage of the website. We want it to answer the following questions: What the heck is this thing?...

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    Do Together Snags

    By Reilly Ellis

    I began this week by helping get the new homepage bar real world ready. Despite the git and javascript snags, it is now up for public viewing (mostly Kyle’s doing :p). In the badges code test...

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    Do Together Test

    By Reilly Ellis

    This week, it seemed like my code tests were deprecating by the minute. That was good though because it meant the addition of some pretty cool API methods. I’m really excited about Aaron’s...

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    A Proposal for Testing Badges

    By Reilly Ellis

    This week, I finished up with the code tests for the two badges I want to test and took a look at what needs to get done in order to do some testing. I thought about what kind of experience I...

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    A Better Looking Version of A Proposal for Testing Badges

    By Reilly Ellis

    I am having serious issue with formatting blog posts... If your eyes can't handle reading the previous post, please follow the link to a prettier...

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    Badges System Reworked and Moving Toward Testing

    By Reilly Ellis

    I started this week by meeting with Caitlin, Jordana and Kyle about changing the way we award and think about badges. Several key things: 1. Users can now earn badges by combining skills in...