On how I learn, how I code, and not sharing well with others.
Notes on how the project integrating FantasyHockeySim.com with Invision Power Board went and how it was done.
Thoughts on my recently-completed refactor of Fantasy Hockey Sim, which started out with a small feature request and spiraled out of control.
I’ve been toying around with Slackbots a bit lately. Back in January I wrote about publishing a Git log to Slack via one. They’re dirt simple to implement and can be really useful. They can also be fun. I’ve added a couple bots in our office Slack just for posting randomness, running as cron jobs. […]
At my day job our codebase is kept in a handful of self-hosted Git repositories. We have a tool that runs nightly, emailing out a digest of all of the previous day’s commits. It’s kinda cool but I have the tendency to ignore it as a wall of text. I prefer more granular messaging and […]
I have a tendency to like to reinvent the wheel in my development, just to prove that I can. I’ve gotten better about it over the years. I replaced my custom-built blog engine with WordPress on DetroitHockey.Net, for example. I still roll my own classes for interacting with the Trello and Twitter APIs, though. Lately […]
I wrote last month about launching FantasyHockeySim.com and replacing the old DetroitHockey.Net Community Forums with a Slack team. At the time I promised a future post about the work I did with the Slack API. The Slack API uses OAuth for authentication, which isn’t really a surprise. It does open up problems if you want to […]
After launching a new site that wasn’t all that new, my next project was a redevelopment of DetroitHockey.Net that removed features rather than adding them. With the fantasy side of the site gone and no longer reliant on the rarely-used DH.N Community Forums, I reworked DetroitHockey.Net to remove the forums. I also pulled out my […]
A few days ago I launched a new website. Kind of. FantasyHockeySim.com went live last Thursday. The site plays host to a couple simulated fantasy hockey leagues using the FHLSim software. Through FHS, league members can manage their teams in real-time, as opposed to all kinds of manual data entry that is required by FHLSim out […]
Martin Biron was the last player in the National Hockey League to wear #00. It’s one of my favorite stories because it mixes hockey with the pitfalls of software development. Biron, then a rookie goalie for the Buffalo Sabres, appeared in three games in the 1995-96 season wearing #00, which he had worn during his […]