put into the .gitignore something to deal with redis dump files
configured the application controller a bit
reworked sockets to now incorporate $q and use angular's promise api to deal with async, updated that functionality into all the controller. All of this was to resolve an issue where I was forced to repeatedly call $digest on the $scope which caused terrible locking issues
refactored the room model onto its own thing on the server side that connects to redis and whatnot
put in font awesome, tried but failed entirely to get the ng model binding and whatnot working