Final project

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All in all I think it was probably too ambitious, especially having seen the other groups' presentations, but I think we pulled off a lot of what we had planned to do. It seems like I've been writing code nonstop for the past two weeks, but there you go.

I think if we ironed out the kinks we really could make this something publicly available and people would actually use it, and that's really cool. It's nice to make something potentially useful.

Professor Hollan made an interesting point about sharing and conversations, and I think with that in mind if I were to make this public I would re-engineer the comments so each item could have comments added by multiple users, rather than a single comment field that everyone can edit. The way we have it now was designed with the idea of collaboration and group editing, but the conversation aspect is perhaps more valuable--and everyone would still be able to edit the description field, I suppose.

This change would require an additional table in the database with the comment itself, the itemid that it goes with and the user that posted it. Threading might be nice too, in which case there would need to be comment ids too and a way to associate comments with each other...ugh. But that's later, if I decide to keep working on this.