Posted on Fri 22 May 2020 in Devlog
At work I've been looking at ways to further organize our codebase. The team had adopted an MVVM approach prior to my joining it but did not take advantage of data binding. Data binding allows one to reference and access their view models from the layout files. I'm still trying …
Posted on Fri 15 May 2020 in Devlog
The final video of Start Page 2.0 project was uploaded on Monday. It didn't take very long at all to get it installed on my Unraid server. I was actually hoping to host the docker image locally, but it was much easier to upload it to Dockerhub …
Posted on Fri 08 May 2020 in Devlog
Episode 8 of the Start Page 2.0 project was uploaded earlier this week. The entire project is now "built" and ready to be thrown into a Docker image. The last episode is coming up soon.
I continue to receive both positive and negative feedback on my videos …
Posted on Fri 01 May 2020 in Devlog
I finished episode 7 of the Start Page 2.0 project. It was the start of wrapping things up. Instead of hard coding values like the API host and database connection info, these are now dynamic. The server pulls properties from the environment and falls back to a …
Posted on Fri 24 April 2020 in Devlog
I haven't made any progress here due to focusing on locking down my home network and my server that hosts this site. I'm currently writing a "log ingester" that will pull various system log files into a MySQL database then graph the results in Grafana. Grafana is hard …
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 …