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.
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.
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
did I say I was finished?
So this evening has been fun working on the app (lunch.ben.best)
I've got some things working, I've also decided the way I need to move forward so:
New features:
You can now by clicking on it modify the serving date / time of the meal.
I've started on, though it's not entirely there the work to add a new meal, there's lots more to be added there, but I have a plan.
It's still really interesting to return to things that I worked with a long time ago and some of the bits are really clever, getting the checking working so that it validates dates, some of the other bits that "just work". However I think I'm going to have to split out a lot of the Meteor functions so that they are separate to some of the helper methods for the steps or meals functionality. Returning to the "time" object that I'd worked on was a nice feeling of finding something I'd done nicely in the past.
I think when I next get some time it will be time to add to the wireframes.
I'm currently waiting at the hospital for a scan (nothing serious), and it's the run in to Christmas, so I'm guessing updates will be quite sporadic.
I've got some things working, I've also decided the way I need to move forward so:
New features:
You can now by clicking on it modify the serving date / time of the meal.
I've started on, though it's not entirely there the work to add a new meal, there's lots more to be added there, but I have a plan.
It's still really interesting to return to things that I worked with a long time ago and some of the bits are really clever, getting the checking working so that it validates dates, some of the other bits that "just work". However I think I'm going to have to split out a lot of the Meteor functions so that they are separate to some of the helper methods for the steps or meals functionality. Returning to the "time" object that I'd worked on was a nice feeling of finding something I'd done nicely in the past.
I think when I next get some time it will be time to add to the wireframes.
I'm currently waiting at the hospital for a scan (nothing serious), and it's the run in to Christmas, so I'm guessing updates will be quite sporadic.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
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.
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.
Saturday, 28 November 2015
back again (again)
Well I'm back again, the little app I was working on had stopped being fun and as I was doing it in my spare time I decided to stop...
However I recently had to choose if I was going to renew this domain and I was doing a couple more fun techy things so I thought I'd re-start the blog and use the impetus of having shelled out for a .best domain for another year as a way to return me to the blog and to doing tech stuff in my spare time.
Not entirely sure exactly where I'm going to go with this. I will probably try and get the app up and working again, although it is successfully (ish) running in its hosted environment (lunch.ben.best) the version locally isn't working and upgrading my ageing mac appears to have killed off Git. So my plan for this evening is to get things up and running again. I've got an idea for a different app and I want to have a play with some other languages (I've been meaning to look at clojure and scala serverside and coffeescript for ages).
So I'm going to spend this evening getting things up and running again, I've just installed a new ssd into my ageing laptop and that is feeling a bit like a new machine. I'll let you know how it goes and if what I decide to do.
In the meantime here's a short, silent video of me replacing the hard drive:
However I recently had to choose if I was going to renew this domain and I was doing a couple more fun techy things so I thought I'd re-start the blog and use the impetus of having shelled out for a .best domain for another year as a way to return me to the blog and to doing tech stuff in my spare time.
Not entirely sure exactly where I'm going to go with this. I will probably try and get the app up and working again, although it is successfully (ish) running in its hosted environment (lunch.ben.best) the version locally isn't working and upgrading my ageing mac appears to have killed off Git. So my plan for this evening is to get things up and running again. I've got an idea for a different app and I want to have a play with some other languages (I've been meaning to look at clojure and scala serverside and coffeescript for ages).
So I'm going to spend this evening getting things up and running again, I've just installed a new ssd into my ageing laptop and that is feeling a bit like a new machine. I'll let you know how it goes and if what I decide to do.
In the meantime here's a short, silent video of me replacing the hard drive:
Wednesday, 8 April 2015
broke it again...
Continuing with the let's see how bad I can mess it up plan that I've been working with so far, this evening I've fixed one thing and really broken lots of others.
I now have an app that although it correctly describes things so has got rid of the depends on rubbish and replaced it with done before which is what I needed it to be. Unfortunately it won't now let you save a new step (and I don't like that description either).
In positive news I can continue playing tomorrow so I'll hopefully at least get something saving.
I did this evening manage to get some things right. I managed to get rid of a load of the errors that I was having to ignore in the code. These weren't actual errors, they were jslint (a tool for telling you where you've written your code badly) not being told to correctly ignore some errors. I'd previously tried to fix this and failed, actually getting this fixed meant I could see the proverbial wood for the trees and pointed out some actual problems that I'd been missing because I'd ignored all the errors.
The other thing that this has pointed out is that I really (really really) need to add in some unit testing. This is starting to get embarrassing, I don't actually know exactly when I broke saving things, I think it was this evening, I can role back code changes and find out but that's a faff. Proper unit tests would have highlighted this to me as soon as I broke it. Fortunately I pointed this out about 3 months ago, less fortunately I paid no attention.
As a sort of PS you might have noticed that I turned ads off. The reason for this was that I no longer needed them. I'd played with them, figured out how to get them working and better than that realised how to set them up and how to turn them off.
I've checked in the current (broken code base) here:
https://github.com/benjimouse/lunch
I now have an app that although it correctly describes things so has got rid of the depends on rubbish and replaced it with done before which is what I needed it to be. Unfortunately it won't now let you save a new step (and I don't like that description either).
In positive news I can continue playing tomorrow so I'll hopefully at least get something saving.
I did this evening manage to get some things right. I managed to get rid of a load of the errors that I was having to ignore in the code. These weren't actual errors, they were jslint (a tool for telling you where you've written your code badly) not being told to correctly ignore some errors. I'd previously tried to fix this and failed, actually getting this fixed meant I could see the proverbial wood for the trees and pointed out some actual problems that I'd been missing because I'd ignored all the errors.
The other thing that this has pointed out is that I really (really really) need to add in some unit testing. This is starting to get embarrassing, I don't actually know exactly when I broke saving things, I think it was this evening, I can role back code changes and find out but that's a faff. Proper unit tests would have highlighted this to me as soon as I broke it. Fortunately I pointed this out about 3 months ago, less fortunately I paid no attention.
As a sort of PS you might have noticed that I turned ads off. The reason for this was that I no longer needed them. I'd played with them, figured out how to get them working and better than that realised how to set them up and how to turn them off.
I've checked in the current (broken code base) here:
https://github.com/benjimouse/lunch
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
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!
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!
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