Pega Associate at Infosys Ltd, blogs about my road to become a software engineer and beyond
Great work has be done by Brian Moran in the past to create a working python script to automatically update the gridsquare in WSJT-X in Windows (https://github.com/bmo/py-wsjtx). As far as I understand after plugging in a USB GPS dongle on a windows based system it resembles a serial port. In his script he added a todo for Linux, but for some reason it never happened. Looking at the date of his work, it was mainly done a little over 4 years ago in 2018.
In my GCE webpages app I have a field for when a tour will take place, at the moment of writing this field is just a simple text input field. It would be nice to make that a calendar drop down.
Well I guess I made it with hurdles. Sometimes live is happening and stands in the way of progress. Will not say too much about it, but it sure could have been a lot easier to complete this Software Engineering Bootcamp. Only needed some support of a person very close to me. Let’s leave it with that.
Rails contains alot of magic, it provides all kinds of generators that can make live easier. As part of our project we were told to stay away from the scaffold generator. The command ‘rails new ordersystem’ already creates a big part of our project by creating the entire filestructure. What I learned is to be aware what version it will use during creating a new app. Two days in my project I discovered my project was using Rails 6.0.1. Our cohort lead has advised to switch to postgresql in stead of sqlite. During a live lecture he lead us through the setup and it was working without trouble on my side. Needless to say when re-initiating my project with Rails 5.2.3 I forgot to complete the ‘rails new’ command with the database option to use postgress. when I noticed that and with the breakweek available I decided to start again with the correct Rails version and a Postgres database.
Have to admit I’m not the youngest one on the block with my 56 years, but feel young at heart and mind.