Well I couldn't justify owning the ben.best domain, it was £70 a year that I could spend on other things. Especially as I own benbat.com. So welcome to the new domain.
I've also got as far as I'm going to with the Lunch project. I learnt some bits and it stopped being quite as much fun. I may well return to it in the future, but for now I'm moving onto new and exciting other projects...
Tonight my bit of work was to move the blog, as we've seen previously that can be a lot of hassle, however this time things appear to have "just worked".
The near future I've got some plans to play with "groovy" and docker, but mostly the idea is to write up fun techy things that I'm doing.
Showing posts with label DNS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DNS. Show all posts
Sunday, 5 February 2017
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Picking things up (again)
In exciting news I've got some incentive to start playing with Meteor again.
What this means:
I've got "lunch" working in so far as it functionally works. It looks like a developer designed it, but it will help you make a (or several) meals!
It's no longer hosted at lunch.ben.best (though should be again "soon"), the free hosting tools that meteor.com used to supply stopped and they have started paid for hosting. This means that for now, you can get to the tool at lunch.meteorapp.com if it looks like it's going to cost me money I'll probably stop it being there, but we'll see how it goes.
Meteor has changed a fair amount since I started looking at it and a fair amount of what has changed means I'm going to re-write the app, which I'm sort of looking forward to.
I'll probably be giving up on the domain ben.best, it's a lot of money for something that's a bit of fun, but not really something I can justify. This makes me a little sad, but I'll keep going with lunch (and probably the blog) but I'll be moving it to one of the cheaper domains that I own.
What this means:
I've got "lunch" working in so far as it functionally works. It looks like a developer designed it, but it will help you make a (or several) meals!
It's no longer hosted at lunch.ben.best (though should be again "soon"), the free hosting tools that meteor.com used to supply stopped and they have started paid for hosting. This means that for now, you can get to the tool at lunch.meteorapp.com if it looks like it's going to cost me money I'll probably stop it being there, but we'll see how it goes.
Meteor has changed a fair amount since I started looking at it and a fair amount of what has changed means I'm going to re-write the app, which I'm sort of looking forward to.
I'll probably be giving up on the domain ben.best, it's a lot of money for something that's a bit of fun, but not really something I can justify. This makes me a little sad, but I'll keep going with lunch (and probably the blog) but I'll be moving it to one of the cheaper domains that I own.
Monday, 15 December 2014
the story so far...
It appears that I'm starting to fall into a pattern, I get lots done at the start of the week and then Thursday appears and life stuff gets in the way. This was the case last week with two trips to the theatre and a Christmas party meaning that I've done nothing on "lunch" since last Wednesday.
I've decided to look at where I am, what I've done and what I'm hoping to do in the next week.
I've decided to look at where I am, what I've done and what I'm hoping to do in the next week.
What I've done
- I've decided to make an app to aid in the cooking of Christmas dinner
- I've created wireframes
- I've started to build the app
- I've broken the dns for ben.best
Where I am
- You can now see steps and add new ones to the app
- I've fixed the dns for ben.best (so that it ends up here you may need to clear some caches if you've already tried this)
What I'm hoping to do
- By next Monday
- Editing steps
- Sorting out the timings so that given a serve time the start times display correctly
- On Wednesday (17-12-2014)
- Write a how to post similar to the how to set up a mailing list one
- On Friday (19-12-2014)
- Write "friday's interesting things II" based on "friday's interesting things I"
- On next Monday (22-12-2014)
- Write another "story so far post" admitting what I didn't get done from the above list.
Tuesday, 9 December 2014
i broke the world
OK well maybe not the world...
I was as surprised as anyone that having looked at the analytics I'm getting about 30 or so folks every day (and even more so that someone's reading this on a blackberry!). I thought I wonder if I can put google's adsense up on the blog and make some money.
I then followed the required steps and filled in the necessary form that needs a non sub domain so ben.best as opposed to blog.ben.best) this I filled in and although they promised me a response in a week a few hours later I received a response back telling me that there wasn't enough contents on http://ben.best/
Following my cname success with lunch.ben.best I thought "I can do this". Those astute enough to have looked at the website http://ben.best will have realised that I can't. Of course because this is DNS I will need to leave it a couple of days (at least) to confirm that I have messed it up and not got it right but it's not propagated yet. I suspect it might be a few days before http://ben.best is also pointing to this blog.
I might have it right, and the little checkbox that says 'redirect ben.best to blog.ben.best' in the blogger settings might actually work or I might have it wrong and have to go back either way I suspect that it's a lucky thing I'm not relying on my DNS expertise or the (yet to exist) ads on this site.
In the meantime buy this book and read it (oh and I'll make a couple of pennies if you do).
I was as surprised as anyone that having looked at the analytics I'm getting about 30 or so folks every day (and even more so that someone's reading this on a blackberry!). I thought I wonder if I can put google's adsense up on the blog and make some money.
I then followed the required steps and filled in the necessary form that needs a non sub domain so ben.best as opposed to blog.ben.best) this I filled in and although they promised me a response in a week a few hours later I received a response back telling me that there wasn't enough contents on http://ben.best/
Following my cname success with lunch.ben.best I thought "I can do this". Those astute enough to have looked at the website http://ben.best will have realised that I can't. Of course because this is DNS I will need to leave it a couple of days (at least) to confirm that I have messed it up and not got it right but it's not propagated yet. I suspect it might be a few days before http://ben.best is also pointing to this blog.
I might have it right, and the little checkbox that says 'redirect ben.best to blog.ben.best' in the blogger settings might actually work or I might have it wrong and have to go back either way I suspect that it's a lucky thing I'm not relying on my DNS expertise or the (yet to exist) ads on this site.
In the meantime buy this book and read it (oh and I'll make a couple of pennies if you do).
reading about testing and then remembering that this is fun...
As expected I got a bit of a chance to play with the app this evening.
I started looking at the velocity test framework that I was talking about previously. I found a couple of very interesting articles and managed to get the cucumber example running. You do this by running test.sh in the higher directory I suspect that this is to do with which of the test tools require a mirror to work and which don't.
These are the links that I found most useful and intend to return to at least once:
Youtube video about velocity
Velocity and Jasmine really (really) thorough blog post
Then I continued with the app...
I added a login function (though I'm not yet actually using it for anything and it has an annoying extra button that I need to figure out how to remove).
I've also added a total time and a button that uses some of the router magic to work with links.
Finally I played with DNS and now the url lunch.ben.best points to the current deployed version of the app. That's a really nice (and really simple) option from meteor, they're still hosting it, it's all done with cname magic.
Of course once I deployed the app I messed up the data, so that I know where to come back to to reset the data the details of how are in this stack overflow answer.
I've got a day long usability course at work tomorrow, so that should be interesting. I may well decide that it's time to re-visit the wireframes or perhaps start from scratch.
I'm really pleased with where I am so far and will continue to get there, here's an image of where we are so far:
I started looking at the velocity test framework that I was talking about previously. I found a couple of very interesting articles and managed to get the cucumber example running. You do this by running test.sh in the higher directory I suspect that this is to do with which of the test tools require a mirror to work and which don't.
These are the links that I found most useful and intend to return to at least once:
Youtube video about velocity
Velocity and Jasmine really (really) thorough blog post
Then I continued with the app...
I added a login function (though I'm not yet actually using it for anything and it has an annoying extra button that I need to figure out how to remove).
I've also added a total time and a button that uses some of the router magic to work with links.
Finally I played with DNS and now the url lunch.ben.best points to the current deployed version of the app. That's a really nice (and really simple) option from meteor, they're still hosting it, it's all done with cname magic.
Of course once I deployed the app I messed up the data, so that I know where to come back to to reset the data the details of how are in this stack overflow answer.
I've got a day long usability course at work tomorrow, so that should be interesting. I may well decide that it's time to re-visit the wireframes or perhaps start from scratch.
I'm really pleased with where I am so far and will continue to get there, here's an image of where we are so far:
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