#itllallbeoversoon

So it's final project time at a/A. My project is a clone of Kayak.com, but for stargate travel. It's called PuddleJumper.

In case anyone wants to follow along at home, PuddleJumper (currently hosted on Heroku) is 15ish% operational. You can see a search form, submit it (if you know what you are doing, because no input validations yet, other than the normal security ones), or you can click the "Surprise me!" button to get results for a random trip early next month. Then the magic happens: Stargate loading screen, ajax requests, json whizzing through the air (if you're on WiFi at least), and then search results. I only just got to the point where I have results to work with, so they're just stringified JSON, but, hey, you've gotta stop somewhere at the end of the day.

If you really want to follow along at home, feel free to check out the source code at GitHub. It's mostly straightforward Ruby-on-Rails backend, Backbone.js frontend stuff right now. I'll let you know if I do anything SUPER CRAZY AWESOME in the future.

ToDo (shortlist):

add typeahead to planet input boxes

format search result data into pretty rows