Chapter 10Seek, and You Shall Find

Any nontrivial application needs to have some sort of search mechanism. TekDays is no exception. In fact, our customer informed us of three different places where he wants us to incorporate some sort of search behavior. Well, actually he wanted more than that, but we had to take a stand against scope creep. For now, we will implement these three: first, when a user logs into TekDays, we will find any TekEvent that has them as the organizer; second, we will also find any TekEvent for which they are a volunteer (both of these will show up on the home page); and finally, we will have the traditional search feature where users can look for a TekEvent based on the properties of the event. As we implement these ...

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