Posted on Fri 17 April 2020 in Devlog
Two more videos were uploaded. I was hoping to upload one per day, but the hack event I blogged about yesterday put a stop to that. I am still in the process of getting a development environment back up and running. Prior to the hack, I kept my …
Posted on Fri 10 April 2020 in Devlog
I uploaded another video to the "Start Page 2.0" series. Overall, I think this is the best video of the series so far. It is still a bit boring, but I was able to actually move forward this time.
Dwayne and I streamed again …
Posted on Fri 03 April 2020 in Devlog
I uploaded another video this past week for the Start Page 2.0 project. I made more mistakes and at the very end I couldn't solve a problem I was having. After a day of rest I was able to figure out the issue pretty quickly and, just …
Posted on Fri 27 March 2020 in Devlog
This week I uploaded the second video to the "Start Page 2.0" project. I feel a little better about it, but I honestly think I'm incredibly boring to watch. I'm hoping over time I loosen up a bit and show the person my family sees every day …
Posted on Fri 20 March 2020 in Devlog
Two weeks ago I wrote about an idea I had for recording 30-ish minute videos and posting them without much editing. The project I decided on was to enhance my start page application to store data in a database. I explained the reasons for this in the video …
Posted on Fri 13 March 2020 in Devlog
At work we hook into 3rd party applications for various things. One of these things is to handle our user authentication and login. Unfortunately, when this piece of the application doesn't work, development grinds to a halt until the other team can get that application back up and running …
Posted on Fri 06 March 2020 in Devlog
Nothing new here other than some thoughts I had. I create two kinds of videos:
Usually the videos are about 10 to 20 minutes long where I set out to accomplish a small task …
Posted on Fri 28 February 2020 in Devlog
Posted on Fri 21 February 2020 in Devlog
I spent some time this week trying to fix the speed issues and layout issues that I have been seeing. The major speed bottleneck in the initial page load was the call to fetch all of the documents. It took a few seconds to fetch a few thousand results …
Posted on Fri 14 February 2020 in Devlog
Brary - Earlier this week I worked on the magazine ingestion part of the process. This exposed several issues that I need to address: