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.

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.

checking out some of the tools I'm going to use to build Christmas

So I've already said I'm going to be building this using meteor that's a javascript platform for building apps.  I've played with it a little before and am quite looking forward to the idea of building something using it.
I've been meaning to get my head around sublime text for ages, so I'll be writing things using that or brackets which I've played with before and quite like.
If I'm using meteor I'm going to end up with bootstrap which I've used a little before but as with the other tools mentioned never actually got something from start to end with it.  I'll also admit my wireframe was at least a little inspired by bootstraps panels which I'll be using plenty of I suspect and I think the panel with footer may solve my issue of showing which items need to be completed first.
That's all for now as I'm off out to see some Christmas lights after work.

starting on christmas

I started on the Christmas dinner application (see earlier post)
So I have spent a couple of hours this evening putting together some wireframes...
I started with pen and paper

A very quick scribble

I've used a pile of wireframing tools at work, but for this I didn't have access to them without paying or turing on the work laptop and at that point I'd end up working.
So I thought I'd see what I could find for free.  Typing "wireframe tool" into google found me wireframe.cc I played with this for about 10 minutes before I gave up on it.  I just couldn't get it to do things like adding text, so I looked for something else.
Here I found moqups.com I really liked this, it was intuitive, easy to use and I managed to put together something that I'm quite pleased with.

Hopefully I'll be able to start working on this tomorrow night but realistically it will probably be over the weekend before I do any more.

Mouth watering

Here's a link to the wireframes in their current state:
https://moqups.com/nebbie/YUdqPsW5/
If you can see anything that you think really won't work (or an obvious improvement) please shout below.