On Saturday, we had a bit of a SHAH ( Super Happy Amy House ) in Clayton so that Mike and I could get together in the same room and taunt each other about the status of our projects. I was able to make some progress on a few of the items that I had on my list for the week but not as much as I had anticipated. The plus side is that I was able to bundle up the debian virtual machine that I am using for development of my project and give it to mike so he didn’t have to do any setup to get a development environment running.
After a couple of hours of working on things we ended up running a D&D adventure with me as the dungeon master. That was a lot of fun and I hope that we can start a regular campaign and maybe get some more people involved as time goes on.
Tasks completed last week :
- hierarchical clients/jobs/projects/services is now all fully functional
- more buildout in the framework to support ideas like super admin
- application administration base screens built out and displayed only to _super admins_
- cleanup of some of the javascript code
- time entry now supports/uses the hierarchical information
Tasks for this week :
- finish account configuration screens admin/user version
- new account setup wizard
- spec out the reports that will be needed for initial release of the site
- AJAX support routines need a little love
Mike challenged me to a contest, hopefully this one goes better than the last one.
The challenge : write a web-based application and release it to the world on or before November 5, whoever generates the most revenue between November 5 and January 5 wins. The only other requirement is a weekly development blog posting detailing status and the work on the agenda for the coming week.
The stakes : I think it’s either hot wings at Hooters or Wing Stop and maybe a case of Mountain Dew or Jolt…can you even buy Jolt anymore?
My project : ClikClock a time tracking program. I really want to do a good, solid, well thought out time tracking program because the few I’ve used drive me nuts. Everyone I talk to hates the applications that they are forced to use at work. So I’m going to give it a shot. See if I can make something that’s powerful and easy to use.
Update : I have had several false starts on ClikCLock in the past but I want to get this idea out of my system, because I’ve had thoughts about doing it for so long. I have written a couple of partial implementations and was reasonably happy with how things were turning out. However some business reasons ultimately forced a rewrite on a different technology platform. On May 1 I opened up an editor and started the current implementation of ClikClock. Since then I’ve written my own MVC framework and have integrated Doctrine and Smarty to create a pretty nice framework to do development in. I had to build a lot of stuff in the beginning to get things working that I wouldn’t have had to build if I had used one of the existing frameworks but I had a desire to build the framework and quite frankly it only took between 4-6 hours to build out the MVC framework and It’s WICKED fast.
I have also decided to use git for this project so I’ve been learning that as I go along. So far I like it but I haven’t had to do anything too crazy with it yet.
Tasks for the week :
- New Account Setup wizard
- Account Administration screens
- Build out the Account Configuration system
Got out for some snowshoeing up at Yuba Gap this weekend. Mike and Weilei brought one of Mike’s coworkers from India along and I took Mom out for her first time snowshoeing. She loved it and is already planning her next trip. It snowed on us most of the trip but the roads were in good shape, the only problem with the driving was the traffic going home. I couldn’t quite understand why there were so many cars on the road until I was informed that this last week was a snow week for a lot of schools so that probably explains all of the traffic.
The next time we go we’re gonna leave early in the morning and see if we can get out for a longer trip, but it’s enough work that I hesitate to take people out for 6 miles on their first day of shoeing. Some photos are included below to bore those of you who like photos
No update for last week, so the update for this week will include two weeks of numbers.
Recap
starting weight: 214.5
ending weight: 212.5
total mileage : 242.8
total calories burned on bicycle : 16609
The last two weeks have been extremely busy with work related matters. I’ve shuffled some things around and should be able to increase my weekly mileage as I work towards the double century without too many more hassles. Points of interest while cycling the last few weeks was a day where we rode to the top of Mt. Diablo via the North Gate entrance, rode down to the bottom of Mt. Diablo via the South Gate road and rode back to the top again.
Interesting site seen while cycling in the last two weeks, along with huge “herds” of turkeys, I saw two squirrels aggressively making an effort to bring new squirrels into the world.
Busy week at work and I didn’t get to ride much this week. However I was able to get out for a good long ride on Sunday.
Weekly Recap:
starting weight: 219
ending weight: 214.5
total mileage for the week: 107.6
total calories burned this week on the bicycle: 7365
