Law And Gospel

ADD or a Better Way?

January 1, 2010

I’ve done it again and decided to change the technology I’m going to use to build LaG. Some my attribute this to technological ADD which I freely admit to, but this time I believe my reasons are substantive. Uncertain Future of App Engine Patch I was pretty excited about being able to use Django on [...]

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FBML vs iFrame

December 11, 2009

I’ve been working on the HTML and CSS for LaG using Espresso. I first created the markup in a base html file and then I’ve adding the CSS classes and styles as needed. I’ve now come to the point where I’m going to start implementing the UI in the server. The first decision I need [...]

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Just Trying to Test Leads to Cleaner Code

October 27, 2009

As I mentioned in my last post, I’ve been trying to get some unit testing going so that I can keep focused and gain a higher level of comfort with the code I’m writing. I started by trying move a business method that had crept into the model and put it in its own business [...]

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Project Setup

September 11, 2009

app-engine-patch Let’s get down to some programming. First, I downloaded app-engine-patch 1.1RC. This gives me Django 1.1 with Google’s model classes instead of Django’s own Model. For those who don’t know, Google App Engine (GAE) uses BigTable instead of a relational database like SQL Server or MySQL. With BigTable you trade the data integrity of [...]

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UI Design

September 11, 2009

My UI Design Paradigm Let me say upfront that User Experience (UX) design is a major weak spot in my skill set. I’m pretty good at exposing the functionality to accomplish a given task, but optimizing workflow, influencing behavior, and polishing experience are areas I need to work on. Part of the problem is that [...]

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Designing the Game

September 8, 2009

In my continuing exploration of whether video games can convey the Gospel, I’ve decided to develop a Facebook game that incorporates some of my thinking along the lines of basic catechesis and apologetics. The basic idea is to have a Mafia Wars like game which has “catechetical tasks” instead of “jobs” and “apologetic encounters” instead [...]

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Facebook Game with Django on Google App Engine – Setup

September 7, 2009

Now that I’ve decided to write a Facebook app using Django on Google App Engine I plan to document as much of the development process as possible. The first steps were purely administrative. I registered a Google App Engine application called “law-and-gospel” (lawandgospel was taken). I then registered a Facebook application called “LawAndGospel.” Nothing complicated [...]

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