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      Going Legit: Project 02

      30 Nov 2005

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      This is technically Project 03, but the real Project 02 was such a fiasco that I’d rather not remember it at all. So I’m basically rewriting (company) history here and naming RedRibbonBakeshop as B&B’s Project 02, coz it looks a lot nicer on the resume and I’m actually pretty proud of this one.

      Of course, I’d be a lot prouder if I had gotten my way with all of the bleeding-edge features that I wanted to use, but conservative corporate attitudes won out again unfortunately. I was pretty disappointed when the management finally decided to go with the more traditional shopping-cart approach, but it would’ve been wrong for me to try to argue them down just because I wanted a site I could really brag about.

      However! Being the uber-geek that I am, I decided to be really cute and hid an easter egg on the site. (It’ll be our little secret hehe, don’t tell anyone.) Here’s how you view it:

      Login with the email address and the password "ajaxdemo" to see what the shopping-cart would have been like if I had gotten my way. All the products can be dragged and dropped in to the cart and all the server queries occur without page reloads. This site was supposed to AJAX to the max. Sigh.

      As always, bug reports and general feedback are welcome.

      9 Responses to “Going Legit: Project 02”

      1. Says:
        November 30th, 2005 at 11:42 pm

        dude, can you send me the link for those sample AJAX Codes you have? :D

        i’m not really into web stuffs, but it’s just that microsoft says AJAX is evil and i just want to try it so i’ll know if it’s really true.

        by the red ribbon rocks. \m/

      2. Carlocake Says:
        December 1st, 2005 at 1:23 am

        the click and drag thing is cool. but you can’t reach the drop area from farther down the list (like the cheesecake for example). I love cheesecake.

      3. luis Says:
        December 1st, 2005 at 1:29 am

        ^yeah you can. you can drag to the little shopping cart icon beside each group of products hehe

      4. Says:
        December 1st, 2005 at 4:06 am

        dude, can you send me the link for those sample AJAX Codes you have? :D

        i’m not really into web stuffs, but it’s just that microsoft says AJAX is evil and i just want to try it so i’ll know if it’s really true.

        by the red ribbon rocks. \m/

      5. Says:
        December 1st, 2005 at 4:26 am

        ngeek, bakit nag-post ulit yun? mybad. nyehehe!

      6. luis Says:
        December 1st, 2005 at 7:50 pm

        for the red ribbon site, i used the prototype and script.aculo.us libraries extensively. you can get prototype here (http://prototype.conio.net/), and is all you need to abstract the XMLHTTPRequest object out of your scripts. the script.aculo.us library, meanwhile, contains the drag-and-drop functionality. basically, all that’s left for you to write is the actual code that takes effect after the item has been dropped on to your shopping cart.

        i also briefly experimented with the dojo toolkit (http://dojotoolkit.com/) which encompasses the functionality of both prototype and scriptaculous, but in the end, i decided i liked the programming interface provided by the latter rather than the former.

      7. bel Says:
        December 4th, 2005 at 10:46 pm

        wow ang galing naman nito luis… the red ribbon site might have given u an award if u joined it on pwa.. hehe pero bilib ako…

      8. muffin Says:
        December 5th, 2005 at 12:04 am

        hehehe… i knoowww where you got thoose raindeeers mr. subscriber to mactv videocast. :p

      9. luis Says:
        December 5th, 2005 at 12:47 am

        i honestly haven’t seen the mactv videocast, but i guess they got the reindeer image the same way we did, i.e., by buying it from a stock image library.

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