The last day of Dev Camp is over and are trying to tie some loose ends, doing some last-minute polishing and fixes. The application is in pretty good shape, it allows us to open a questionnaire, fill it up, save and edit. In both offline and online modes on desktops as well as on smartphones or iPads. From our point of view it is a success. I didn’t expect that in 5 days we’d be able to do so much.[...]

Before we began the Dev Camp we had a few interesting discussions about what we thought would be interesting interfaces to display to an end user. When we settled on creating a questionnaire app we started to think what kind of controls we could use to ask the questions. It was obvious that we should use some standard controls like text boxes, check boxes or radio buttons but we also wanted to use some advanced controls. Our first choice was[...]

With the second day of our dev camp coming to an end it’s time to summarise our server side work.  I’ve been working with Neil on setting up the server side part of the application while Tomasz was working on the client side. We decided that we are going to use standard MVC controllers to implement a RESTful service and RavenDB for data storage. RavenDB is a nosql database server, which stores information as JSON “documents”. These documents can have[...]