Wafy's Tools

Well, with the fall here I am hoping to get back into doing some programming. I have been a bit burnt on programming for a bit. I have a couple things in the fire, and it is making it hard to get motivated. Still have a couple updates coming for WhereAreGames, it is just taking a bit longer than I expected, and a bit more difficult. Again motivation has been a big factor. There hasn't been a whole lot of hits on the site so that doesn't exactly help. 

Not much progress. Took a break on the bigger upgrade and decided to work on another list builder's output. Working thee output of the Rosterizer List builder. It is a JSON output with a lot more information than the ROSZ files. Missing some reference ID's but looking to try and get it imported. Did a small update to WhereAreGames to fix some of the weapon views, to merge a few of them.

Making some progress on the campaign section of the WhereAreGames site. Got most of the interface ready, just need to deal with data and to be able to enter battle data. Got some good new though, some alternate BattleScribe programs have popped up. The new program they are using to enter the data is a website called NewRecuit.eu. It is a pretty good program and I added the ability for WhereAreGames to recognize the output files for the app. There are a few other programs that are taking up the mantle of BattleScribe.

It has been an interesting month. New edition of Warhammer 40k has come out and of course breaks everything. Well kind of, the BSData group is fed up with the BattleScribe app developer. They have decided to boycott him, as they aren't able to easily add the new edition's data. There are some alternatives out there which I am still evaluating, but can't do much until the data is there. GW came out with their own builder and it is useful, but not for my app. It doesn't even have any kind of useful exports.

More disheartening news, Battlescribe changed things to make things more difficult to use. They asked for permissions to the current directory that stores the files and then doesn't use it to save or update to it. Now is stored in a place that is no longer accessed by other applications. So I am on the hunt for another army builder that I can read in and use. Most seem kind of lame, since they don't seem to save in very nice formats to be used by other applications. I guess I might as well write my own app to read BSData.

I think I am slipping. Not much progress on much this past month.

Stats updates, wherearegames.com has 20 unique users from both stats programs. Still no one logging into the DynaBallot, though did get a lot of hits though. The SEO is looking about the same. 

No big updates on either site. Did add a QR code to WhereAreGames to help get new users to find the site. It turns out Google changes the search when you search for wherearegames or wherearegames.com and my site isn't even in the list. You have to click the "Search instead for" link below what they switched to. So lame, autocorrecting my domain. My site doesn't try to find a game, it shows where a game is.

Project update, things are moving slowly. I have it loading the files, I just need to merge them and create an couple interfaces. I am not going give a time frame, just didn't realize how complicated this can be. Though I have made a few updates this past month to the production site to make the dashboard a bit more usable on smaller screens. Also did a couple changes to the army list to also fix some small screen issues. 

Another month and some progress. I kind switch gear yet again. Sooner or later I will learn to stick to an idea and move to the next. Do have most of the roster idea done, but reused some of the ideas to work on a campaign tracker. Though I am making progress, not going to promise anything by the end of the month, but hoping to have something useful. I did put out an update this last month, to fix a couple issues with the Army List widget. 

New year and some progress with my apps. Not huge progress, but progress none the less.  There have been some upgrades and some usable changes to some interfaces. I was also able to convince some of the gamers to try the WhereAreGames app out. There are a couple that use it semi-regularly. SEO side of things are a little better. There are still some work that needs to happen, but there is some progress.