Background image

Spent a while looking for and trying out different images until I landed on one designed by Kjpargeter / Freepik

Shortcuts for Chrome Devtools

ALT+CMD+I opens Dev Tools. Other DevTools Shortcuts

CSS Media Queries

I was reminded that CSS media queries are used to enforce certain css rules if only certain conditions about the medium, on which the page is viewed, is true.

Day 17 Plan

Find a solution for the other black background image I have in the lower section of the intro page. Evaluate the use of the Montserrat font for the repository overview tables.

Future days - Analyzer.atmire.com work

• Analyzer: Change String based implementation of error message handling with types and objects, according to Antoine Snyers recent Atmire DevTalk.
• Analyzer: change string based implementation of the different browse styles to an object, according to Antoine Snyers recent Atmire DevTalk
• Analyzer: Add recently verified items to the homepage.
• Analyzer: Optimize my hideous methods for getItemcount and getRepoCount.
• Analyzer: re-test the check if we return the right repository to a user who tries to add a new one
• Analyzer: updating a repository: touch/change the base URL or not?
• Analyzer: batch ingest: switch to newer add repository methods.

Future Days - Atmire.com work

Investigate and work on search engine optimization (SEO) for the main atmire.com website.

Future Days - other ideas

1. Switch to a different project: start working on DSpace 7 Angular
2. Setup IDEA so I can start editing these blogposts from there, instead of in a text editor
3. Developer productivity: Get my IntelliJ IDEA Shortcuts in order (CMD+1, CMD+/, …)

Sustainability - Raising the stakes - Looking for sponsors

I have raised the stakes by

• giving €100 to Charity:Water for every day I miss.
• asking people to sponsor me and to give an amount to a charity for each day I successfully complete

This way, every day would be a win. These are the rules that I’ll apply:

1. I can anticipate or fix a lost day by doing an hour extra the day before, or an hour extra the day after. In theory this means I can maximally compensate a streak of 2 missed days.
2. Goal is to have a steady frequency, so I can’t just do 8h on a sunday to get myself off the hook for the next 7 days.
3. Sponsor commitments are fully voluntarily: any sponsor can back out at any time.
4. My commitment is fully voluntarily: if I want to change the rules or back out, I can at any time.

In September, these are already days that will be very tough:

• Sep 8,9 - FoM Lanparty w friends
• Sep 14,15,16,17 - Abroad for a wedding
• Sep 27,28 - Supernova conference Antwerp

So that’s already a lot of exposure to potentially missed days.

I will raise the stakes this way and gather money for Charity:Water. Let me know if you want to sponsor me and for how much per completed day in September. September 1st is the first successfully completed day.

September tracking

Will only log the failed days here. No failed days so far.

Thanks to the following sponsors!

1. Jan & Hilde: €2 per successful day (Yes, these are my parents)