fixed it again (again)

So I've spent a couple of evenings and I've again got my little app working locally it has been interesting re-visiting things and as ever getting code working I worked on a year or so ago.

lunch.ben.best is now running the latest version of the code (and I've checked everything into github). I'm at the point where in theory it would be possible to use the app to cook a lunch, though it wouldn't be a lot of fun. So now is the time for improving the app to make it really usable.
Then get it so that others can use it.

When I left this I had started playing computer games again, last night I decided to leave the conquering of Europe do some coding while the kids were asleep, I'm not sure if this is a good or bad thing, but while it's interesting I'll keep going. You never know I might end up with something interesting at the end.

I'm currently working on being able to change the time to serve the meal, this led me into the interesting place that is the input type datetime-local. It still surprises me how incomplete the specification and support for the HTML5 input types are. On mobile devices this box is lovely, however it's not supported on IE at all and the chrome support isn't exactly thrilling. I'll probably look at some plugins to see if I can't figure out a better solution, but I'm going to be continuing with the "get it working, then get it pretty" maxim.
I think the next steps are:
Allow date/time change working
Allow multiple meals
Allow multiple users to have meals
Sort out adding / editing steps so it's "nicer"
Pretty up everything (including making it "reactive")

I'm sure I'll find more steps and do some out of order, but it's nice to have a line in the sand, even if it then gets rubbed away.

ahhh... not as "there" as I thought it was

So following my proud post declaring I was sort of there, I pointed out what I'd done to a "friend". He pointed out a small flaw in my logic and that the tool was completely unusable...

It's clear now that instead of having a "depends on" (which really means nothing) I need two boxes: - "Needs to be done before" and "Needs to be done after".  Ah well it'll give me a better idea of what I'm doing and no doubt cause some fun with the idea of circular dependencies...

Oh well gives me something to do tonight!

couple of nights off

Yesterday Simone was out so I was child wrangling, this evening we had a lovely friend round for dinner. This has meant that I haven't been able to get on with the project.
It's unlikely that I will be able to make any headway tomorrow either.   However I have been thinking about it and will be fiddling with the wireframes over the weekend.