Update: Group progress

I have been reading the DOM Scripting book, the JavaScript book, Dive Into Greasemonkey, and studying some scripts from userscripts.org to try and learn how we might overlay our own data into Google Calendar. So far it has been pretty exciting to use DOM inspectors to modify CSS for any page - it gives me a slightly evil feeling like I'm messing around with someone's page without them knowing. Of course it's not true but it's still a funny feeling to be able to uglify Google.com instantly from my JavaScript Shell bookmarklet. I considered sticking funny notes in my roommate's browser at his often-frequented web pages by putting his name in the document.title etc, but I was too busy.

Our group met again today and it went fairly well. We are getting closer to understanding Google Calendar a bit and Greasemonkey/DOM a fair bit more. Although Weather.com is still relatively alien, our fingers still seem to be crossed about the feasibility of the project as a whole. We quickly designated one of my Plan B joke ideas of a web-based timeline maker to fall back on, which was amusing.

As for this coming week, I'm very excited to learn more stuff! I am starting to see how this course could be really challenging for people with even less background in these languages might be, and I worry a bit for them but more than anything, I wish them luck and pay them due respect.