Finished up the research on how to authenticate with Google for limited input devices. For reference that information is found here. I have been designing out a flow for the application to detect if it needs an authentication token and alert the user through the standard error with directions on what to do to and then begins checking for the user’s approval.
I haven’t make to much progress, but I am happy with what I have accomplished so far =)
It’s probably only been the last couple years that I have really fallen in love with TDD. It helps keep your focus on quality by letting you write code that you wish you had. The implementation doesn’t matter, in fact it is the least of your concern. That is the beauty of TDD.
Here at the Fluencr office we have had a trusty peace lilly plant since the first week we moved in. My wife recommended it to us as they are known to help pull odors out of the air and so far it has been an amazing plant. Then a couple weeks ago by business partner decided to grow his own plant in the office, a pea plant.
I have been doing quite a bit of research for Google Analytics and I have identified some major hurtles that I need to overcome. One of the biggest is with how an application is able to get data. You need to use OAuth and Google appears to have some serious gates up for “none-browser” applications. From the documentation the flow goes as follows…
I am working on learning the in’s and out’s to Google Analytics. I use it with my blog and it is quite addictive to watch traffic come in with all kinds of yummy metrics. The only thing I really don’t care for is having to use Google’s web interface to see how my site is doing. Since I am in the middle of leveling up my CLI skills I decided to build a command line tool that can fetch my Google Analytics.
This week I picked up the book Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby 2, which you can find here. I have always been a huge fan of the command line and since I really enjoy writing Ruby applications this book seemed like a double winner.
Over the Thanksgiving week the in-laws were visiting and they both brought their computers for me to take a look at. Both where running Windows XP and had contracted all kinds of maleware. I hate this kind of stuff with a passion. Every time I get one of these machines to work on I just want to format it and throw Linux on it. The average user who really only uses the internet and does trival other small office tasks would benifit greatly from the stability of an operating system like Ubuntu or Fedora.
If you could travel back to the year 2000 and ask me what HTTP server I rolled with you would get a very loud and proud response of Apache. Everyone and their brother who was writing web applications in the opensource space back then loved using the word LAMP ( Linux Apache MySQL PHP ). That star-eyed developer now doesn’t use LAMP for opensource web, and it was hard going for some time relearning a new toolset.
The start of my weekend was spent helping prepare our house for the coming of my in-laws. The wife and I super cleaned everything and put the finishing touches on the guest bedroom. They showed up Sunday in the afternoon with their two dogs and so far no problems to report. Our goal now is to pack each day with activities to keep us all occupied.
It’s a rather long complicated story, but the gist of it is I got married to the girl of my dreams on 7/9/11 and we never got our wedding pictures from our photographer. By the powers that be fast-forwarding to now my wife was able to get a hold of him via phone and he agreed to put our pictures up on PhotoBucket as well as send us a DVD of our pectures. Well it doesn’t look like the DVD is coming anytime soon… so we thought it best to get our images off of PhotoBucket before they vanished.