The Final Stretch

We made it folks.
We are on the verge of Augie Marketplace's great release. Like the monumental white whale emerging from the depths of the ocean to face Captain Ahab in one final epic confrontation, Team Bandicoot is stringing up their harpoons for the last push towards glory.

Finally a way to get your used textbooks and school supplies out of your basement. Glory has never had a more accurate description.

Team Bandicoot has been burning the midnight oil (not as efficient as electricity, but it makes us feel like Davinci) to get this project where it needs to be by the impending release date. Which, as it stands now, is......

(Dramatic beat. Confetti cannon)

ON SUNDAY! AT 5 PM!

When you're finished applauding in front of you computer, take moment to look back on the last ten weeks. At one time, you had no idea receiving an adequate amount of compensation for your used college essentials was a remote possibility. And yet there you sit, a new person/google robot fishing for metadata, staring in awe at your future. A future in which you have several hundred bucks in your pocket for used textbooks, from someone you like, trust, and are happy to help out, instead of 90 cents and a smirk from a book exchange employee.

Revel in it.

Now back to business.

You know the functionality and details surrounding Augie Marketplace at this point, so let me give you the thick of it:

'Twill be epic. And I don't use language like that lightly.

You'll be seeing us and our app in three days time. Mark your calendars and buckle up. It's been swell having such an absolutely overwhelming amount of support for this project since the beginning and we cannot wait to see how people feel about the results.

Cheers,

Keenan

Comments

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego( 's Stuff she posted on Augie Marketplace to Efficiently Find and Lock Down a Buyer)?

Oh, I'm sorry, is that title too LONG for you? BOO HOO. Did it WASTE so much of your PRECIOUS TIME with its OBNOXIOUS pop culture reference and OVERLY EXTENDED parenthetical? Am I WAY OVERPLAYING this SARCASTIC line of questioning? Well that's nothing compared to the amount of time you, as a highly valued user of AUGIE MARKETPLACE, would waste trying to find an item in a poorly structured, impenetrable android app made by a bunch of shmucks! You'd waste a whole lot of time! We got you covered. We may be shmucks, but we respect your time. The app currently allows a user to search for items by Category, Seller, Date Uploaded, and Title. If you can't find an item in this search system, there's a chance it just doesn't exist. I swear, I searched Waldo on this thing and it came up with circled pictures of him on every page of every book. I'll never have to look for that striped trickster again. No really. ...Ok not really, I found thos...

Farewell

Real life photo of Team Bandicoot riding off into the sunset Whelp, we made it folks. The final release of Augie Marketplace was a big hit. The audience roared, cheered, and showered us with laud and gifts of gratitude. The app was smooth as margarine in a turkish bath, and the idea was immensely intriguing to the augie students present. We had 'em all hook, line and sinker since the first minute of the presentation. That all beings said, we simply cannot deny the fact that this whole fiasco is done and over with. For the four of us, anyway. Team Bandicoot is immensely proud of the work we have done on this project. We had our high points and our low points, but in the end, we developed a high quality application with legitimate potential for improving the Augustana experience. We each individually learned so much about ourselves and our abilities during this process. Now, with graduation imminent, it is time for all of us to move on to bigger and better...

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Firebase

I'm a sucker for a cliche blog post name. So sue me. Team Bandicoot has hit the ground running. Which if you are familiar with the anatomy of bandicoots, is tough. They have tiny little legs. Anyhoo: STEP 1 - The profiles Augie Marketplace will boast an easy to set up and maintain profile system, providing security to our users, while still allowing them to link up with other students of interest. For this purpose we will be using Firebase, which utilizes a Realtime Database system. First and foremost, ol' Augustana College loves their google platforms. Everything we do here in Rock'nRoll Island is based off a school issued email and password. It is essential that Augie marketplace can be accessed in the same way. So even before we attack the Firebase Database system to achieve real-time syncing between our clients, Avash "Firebase Face" Shrestha is working through a google sign in system so we can keep those Augie students happy and comf...

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