ProjectPlan.md

Project Plan

Week 4

• Create project repository on GitHub
• Create project structure in intellij and push
• Add link to list of indie projects in student repo.
• Complete Problem Statement
• Determine possible Web Services or APIs to use
• List technologies, versions and how they will be used
• Weekly reflection
• Write project plan
• Screen design
• Triple-check for Checkpoint 1
• Vertabelo model of database

Week 5

• Create the database
  • Create user table
  • Create post table
• Select Template | Design CSS
• Document application flow in text and pictures - figma
• Create a home screen
• Brainstorm some technical components of ethical design
  • Tag different kinds of sensitive content (politics, nudity, drugs/alcohol), allow users to filter certain content out
  • Include a settings page that gives user options w/r/t how much time they want to spend on the app, what times of day they want to use it, etc
  • Create a way to enforce these user preferences
• add user and post entities with hibernate annotations
• add user and post servlets
• generic dao class
• Weekly reflection

Week 6

• Work on design
• redo db model to accommodate many-to-many relationship
• get bridging table to work with hibernate
• continue writing unit tests
• fix log4j file appender error

Week 7

• servlet and jsp for displaying posts
• servlet and jsp for displaying posts by tags
• servlet and jsp for displaying users
• cognito debugging

Week 8

• separate sign up and create user logic
• create form for creating post
• create form for adding user details to db
• jsp logic for displaying profile depending on whether user is signed in

Week 9

• navbar conditional display of icons depending on user log in status
• log out
• filtering by tag
• escape special characters in forms
• deleting a post
• get tiny api to work
• sort posts by most recent

Week 10

• diagram out all logic flows in app
• create customer error handlers for 404, 500
• fix padding around picture on home page
• allow user to edit profile

Week 11

• fix bug where post tags aren't saved when post is updated
• display the selected tags when updating a post (iss009)
• fix date formatting on all_posts.jsp where time always set to 12:00 am

Week 12

• admin privileges
• add color scheme
• implement upload picture logic
• post pagination
• add API service to project
• implement post filtering logic
• allow users to comment
• add to user stories
• continue adding a refining custom error pages

Week 13

• make sure all methods are commented
• run jdoc on project

Week 14

Week 15

• Final Presentation
• Create video, add video link to readme.md
• Finalize all documentation
• Code quality check

Week 16

• Weekly journal entry
• Final touches before code complete