First few days of Toronto have flown by. I've been to two meetups already. One by Fullstack Toronto hosted by a very friendly James Wilkinson and the other at Homestars Inc, a great presentation by Luis Saffie about building an API in Rails, which I found very informative as I've only skimmed some Rails.

Although I fear a lot of what I write is already available online and this is just repetitive info I'll extract it to the interweb regardless, if only as a public log of what I'm working on.

Taking a quick break from my podcast app. Currently building a scavenger hunt app where organisers plot areas on a map with associated tasks for participants to complete. This will consist of a dashboard for organisers and a mobile app built using Ionic for the participants.

For the dashboard the user should be able to:

• create event
• create a route
• create markers
• associate task to a marker
• view teams
• view teams task progress
• view where teams are

Nice to have would be broadcasting a message to all participants or teams.

For the app the user should be able to:

• join an event
• create a team
• view task
• complete task

Mapbox maps because they're really pretty, cool and customisable and I want an excuse to tweak some tile maps. I'm using angular-leaflet-directive for convenience. Make sure to include lat,lng AND zoom in your center variable. I had left out center and spent considerable time trying to find the issue.

angular.extend($scope, {
        defaults: {
            center: {
                lat: 53.39,
                lng: -6.19,
                zoom: 8
            },
            tileLayer: "https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v4/"+mapID+"/{z}/{x}/{y}.png?access_token="+accessToken,
            path: {
                weight: 10,
                color: '#800000',
                opacity: 1
            }
        }
    });

Random thought: It would be very cool if a high frequency sound could be emitted in a location, then the app could recognise this to provide sign up for teams. Although not sure about the implications of this on human hearing.