Today's Goal : Service Workers (Get to know them session)
Today's Progress: Taking a look at SW's with and without polymer, some really cool stuff and two examples found in the day 12 folder.
Thoughts: Service Workers are cool, also read someting about a polyfill for non supported browsers! that must of been a lie.
Today's Goal : Create pug.js mixins
Today's Progress: Pug.js allows mixins, which is cool and nice to componetize and create "Custom Elements"
Thoughts: Makes templating even easier !!!
Today's Goal : Using handlebars.js inside node
Today's Progress: Experimenting using handlebars in a node applicaton
Thoughts: Yep it works.
Today's Goal : Creating API documentation using Slate.
Today's Progress: Bit of cheating, did some slate reasearch at work and have adapted to a chocolate theme, see the day 9 folder, static result can be seen in the build folder.
Thoughts: Slate is really nice, also the postman pro stuff deserves a thumbs up.
Today's Goal : Creating a polymer app using polymer elements and not creating custom.
Today's Progress: Creating a polymer app showcasing some the polymer elements
Thoughts: Polymer & web components are the future and great things will happen
Today's Goal : Start styling koa application
Today's Progress: Using pug.js add css and create the template of the web page to add some style to the proof of concept
Thoughts: Interesting pug.js will take the external css and place within style tags... not sure how i feel about that.
Today's Goal : Using marked parse markdown and create html file
Today's Progress: using the marked npm, sucessfully parsed the .md file into HTML and created the .html file
Thoughts: Marked NPM is very easy and simple to use.
Today's Goal : Due to other commitments on the weekend I have decided to use it to go through and tidy/amend this weeks work.
Today's Progress: Redesigning the Day 1 Jeykll blog, implementing a nice and material design look.
Thoughts: Some nice css changes using MDL
Today's Goal : To go completley off topic and take a look at KOA and Passport.js
Today's Progress: Yeah... so a complete twist today and some time investigating KOA and Passport.js for github authentication. Suprisingly simple but thats in KOA v1.... v2 brings the complexity of babel! Take a look at the Day 4 folder.
Thoughts: Yeah.... great but I now need to do it using koa 2... should be easy right?
Today's Goal : To continue progress learning Haskell
Today's Progress: Some more functions can be found in the learningHaskell.hs file in the Day 3 folder.
Thoughts: Continuing to get my head around functional programming, some neat stuff found in contrast to OO
Time Spent: 1 hrs
Today's Goal : Put together the Blog using Jeykll and teach the better half markdown (ready for posts!)
Today's Progress: Finished putting together the simple blog and creating the welcome post.
Thoughts: Yeah, nice and easy working with Jeykll creating a nice and easy framework to allow simple MD updates! Pleased with what I have and have ideas to develop further on the days im searching for something to do!
Link to work: Here
Time Spent: 1.5 hrs
Also started on day 3...... which is starting to learn Haskell, which is what I have been told a nice place to start to get to know functional programming, it seems interesting and i will share my thoughts in tommorows update. Some basic functions can be found in the Day 2 folder
Today's Goal : Investiage github pages & Jekyll
Today's Progress: Started to create and put together a github page/ Jekyll blog, in particular looking at the liquid templating
Thoughts: Really impressed with the idea behind Jekyll, some really clever stuff and some neat stuff can be done using it.
Time Spent: 2hrs