Despite the holiday season and the lack of blogging recently, we have been working hard and have made some significant progress. We have finished several more modules in the last week, including the messages, to-dos, and events. Our next step is to integrate the Paypal API, which will allow users to make payments to their studeng organizations without ever leaving our site.

At this point I have become very comfortable with the MVC structure, and any web developers out there who haven’t tried using it should definitely try it out. The benefits of separating our front-end display code from the behind the scenes data preparation have proven quite effective in allowing us to get this project done in such a short time. We have also developed a very useful javascript library which allows us to modularize our AJAX calls and responses.

Aside from the grind of coding, we are getting closer and closer to choosing a name for the site. We have several high quality logos and slogans to go with a few candidates (thanks to Scott and Chad Pugh), and we should be making a decision here in the next week.