18 November 2016

*~*~New Project~*~*



Apologies for the overexcitement. I'm just very happy since it's been a long time since I started anything new.

This is project left-yet. As in "Have they left yet?" I thought it might be something vaguely fun and it might give me a good mix of new and old things to work on.

The aim for this project is to create a responsive database of everyone who said they'd leave the country when x happens. I realised soon after creating the table that this leaves no room for Gary Linker and his ilk so I'll have to have a think about that.

Anyway, the point is to use responsive table design, Firebase and AngularJS. Screengrab of a few hours work below. Angular works, I found a good tutorial on responsive tables that I've ripped off and I have Firebase kinda set-up. I've stopped today because I've broken it but I think I did something very specific that makes that my own fault.

Hopefully I come back to this sooner rather than later.


3 November 2016

Post-TPA Projects

JUST IMAGINE YOU'RE OUT THERE!
Image from PersonaCentral.com

Somehow I'm currently deputy-editor/digital manager at BrexitCentral!

Apart from creating a very early-days website (which I forgot to screenshot and has since been lost I had a backup in an obscure corner of my computer. Will add a screenshot at the bottom) there hasn't been much coding going on. That early-days website wasn't more than a placeholder with an email signup and some info about BrexitCentral but I built it in a day using Bulma.io to get it started. This is actually the second time I've used that framework - because of the way it's put together it's really easy to make something pretty but simple. It's much more lightweight than Bootstrap as well.

In other news:
YourTPA is finally available on the app store! Although I'm not as proud of it now as I was in the past.... I've moved on considerably since this was completed...

I've been learning more about Photoshop under the tutelage of new colleague Darren Grimes. As in all cases where you learn something new I shudder to think about the ways I was going about things in the past. I'm particularly enamoured with the pen tool and colour replace feature.

Japanese is back on the agenda again. Mostly due to many, many hours being spent playing Persona 5. Although it's been pointed out that the vocab lists I'm making during my playtime aren't particularly coherent.

This week's vocab list for example:

汝 (Thou)
容態 (Condition / State)
もやもや (Foggy / Gloomy)
ウソ泣き (Crocodile tears)
黙秘  (Silence regarding a subject)

Told you it wasn't exciting