Wafy's Tools

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.

Making some progress on the WhereAreGames site. It is kind of slow going do to some of my ideas. I have been able to water some some of the ideas and making some progress. My current hurdle is learning how to apply the File System Access API. I am hoping to use it to save and load files from the system, to make templates easier to transfer from one browser to another. From what I can see it is a pretty straight forward API, the difficult part will be building and reading the file. Which is where I am at currently.

Finally made some progress on my next feature for the WhereAreGames site. I have been working on reorganizing some existing code so I can reuse it better. As I think have said before, there are reasons people use frameworks. Essentially I am putting together my own framework. Anyone that says they are using vanilla JavaScript or any language are basically building their own framework. A long time ago I started using a framework for PHP, only because I wanted a standard for other people to refer to when looking at the code.

Lots of ideas and no ambition or will to do much of any of it. Not say I won't do it, it will eventually get built, it is a matter of when. I am leaning more toward the tournament side. I know there are a few apps out there for that, but would like to take a shot at it. The tough part is getting started. I still have some breaking up of my main library into smaller and more general pieces. Which is more difficult than it sounds. I can see why people use existing frameworks, I guess I like to torture myself.