I've been talking about demoing the application to my head of department for a while now, but hadn't found the time until now. Work is busy, and I'm a procrastinator. The demo went pretty well, with the overall feedback being the application will be useful and is heading in the right direction already, with plenty... Continue Reading →
There's two bits of progress to talk about this time around. Getting a template engine in place, and packaging the app up for distribution. Template Engine This was one of those occasions where I wasn't 100% sure what I was meant to be searching for when looking for libraries to accomplish my goal. I started... Continue Reading →
Configuration viewer development continues full steam, powered by my weekly caffeine hit. Data Persistence The config viewer now persists data through both refreshes and application shutdowns. This ended up being fairly easy to implement thanks to an electron specific library: electron-store. After npm installing and requiring the library, it was as simple as setting key/values... Continue Reading →
Progress on the configuration viewer test tool I described in my last post is going well so far. Electron is proving to be a great platform for quickly prototyping and developing this kind of tool. Because Electron is essentially a web browser, there's very little wasted time when making alterations to the code. So far... Continue Reading →
I've previously written about how important I believe testing tools to be, especially ones written in-house to solve issues that only your organisation faces. It's time to plan and develop a new one! This series of posts will be a development diary for this new tool. Hopefully it will provide insight into the kind of... Continue Reading →
SelectorsHub by @SanjayKumaarr got its first release at the end of July 2020, and looks to be an incredible tool for helping people build good Xpath and CSS selectors straight from their browser of choice. I grabbed the Chrome extension and started working with it. It's easy to see how great the tool is, and... Continue Reading →
