I’m moving along with new found motivation. The months of March and April were quite tough though. I fell in a bit of a hole in March. I guess for two reasons: working for months a full work week plus weekends and evenings to complete… Read More »March and April ’22: Downs and Ups
This week I reached the A2PB Beta 1 mile stone! After a final stretch of 7 weeks working nights and weekends. I finally have a first working version of the program. Here are some impressions. Above: The dashboard The dashboard shows an overview of your… Read More »Weeks 3-9 ’22 – Completing A2PB Beta-1!
M. and I started the new year with a one week holiday on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria. We were in a hotel in the south (a place called Meloneras) where we enjoyed the sunshine, had drinks at the pool and took a rental… Read More »Weeks 1 & 2 of 2022 – Portfolio and Securities Weighting
These were the final weeks of 2021, starting December 13 and ending January 2nd. With the beginning of January 2022, week numbers in post titles will reset to one and from then on be in sync with actual calendar weeks. Major achievements during this period:… Read More »Weeks 29-31 – Coding under the Christmas Tree
The past 5 weeks (November 8 – December 12) can be summarized as a “coding deep-dive”. The particular topics I worked on are: Initial implementation of monitor views allowing to display real-time and historic data charts for select contracts (migrating the old TeeRex monitor view… Read More »Weeks 24-28 – Down the rabbit hole
The period between October 4 and November 7 can be summarized as follows: Steady development on A2PB. Completing my ClubDesk involvement (reducing work-load from 40% down to 0 by the end of September), hand-over of last tasks (3CX setup). Starting into November with a week… Read More »Weeks 19-23 – Development, ClubDesk, Diving
As planned, week 18 was dedicated to finishing ClubDesk related work (3CX phone system setup) and some clean-up and testing of A2PB code. On Friday and the weekend I started thinking about a general scheme to persist and manage loosely structured sets of information (like… Read More »Week 18 – ClubDesk and DataItem Maps
Week 17 was dedicated to sunshine, pool, good food and quality time with M. We flew from Basel to Ibiza where we checked in to a modern beach resort hotel located about twenty minutes walking distance west of Ibiza Town (Eivissa). Along with me was… Read More »Week 17 – A week in the sun
Reached the September 17 dead-line which includes the following: General application layout Instruction processor Generic table viewers and filters Switching between a dashboard view and portfolio views Descriptive dialog layout scheme Initial dialog implementations and validations Goal for week 17 (starting yesterday, September 18): a… Read More »Week 16 – Generic table viewer
Over the past two weeks I was steadily working towards the September 17 goal (instruction viewer and table viewer implementations complete). Tasks completed so fare are: Instruction viewer Dialog layout String and code group data types Basic validation (required fields) Synchronous instruction execution Generic table… Read More »Week 14 & 15 – Application views and dialogs