Soon after I downloaded the Seek app on my phone, I started scanning whatever I found as I walked through our woods. Some names were familiar, but this one stopped me. Striped Maple? Of course, there were the stripes on the trunks that I had never noticed before. But maple? The floppy leaves didn’t hang […]
Author Archives: Rich
Winter is Coming
The junco can be hard to spot on the driveway stones, just like the coming of winter can be hard to spot among the warm days of October. But a bit of movement out of the corner of my eye can be a clue that Fall is turning inevitably into something else. At first there […]
Grilling in October
We’ve been blessed with many perfect days this October, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t need to seize the opportunities we have to make the most of each one. I came home with some nice steaks in our grocery pickup today, so we decided to get them right out on the grill. As usual […]
The Broken Switch
We have been having trouble with our refrigerator for months, then suddenly the microwave seems to have caught the bug, too. When the door is open, the turntable now turns when it should be still. Closing the door, happily, causes it to stop. Some searching on YouTube gave the general diagnosis… one of the switches […]
Changing Directions
Last month, I continued writing about building a Resource Allocation system — an online scheduling application for web development groups — with a GraphQL server in Laravel. A lot has happened since then. For one thing, a separate project which involved putting a bunch of WordPress posts and document references behind a GraphQL server came […]
A GraphQL Server in Laravel – part III
The third part of our series on creating a GraphQL server in Laravel to support the Resource Allocation system
Full Focus Planner Covers
As a husband, dad, web-developer, home owner, etc., I have a lot of goals and projects to track and attend to daily. One tool that I have found to help me track and execute my plans is the Full Focus Planner by Michael Hyatt and Company. I could go on for many paragraphs about how […]
Extending the Resources GraphQL Server
This is Part II of “Building a Resource Manager in React and GraphQL”. Read Part I, Building a Resource Manager in React and GraphQL. Now that we have some behavior from the GraphQL server, we can start building out the rest of the data models. As described in Part I, we need to add Eloquent […]
Bingo Display
I recently came upon some code that I wrote about ten years ago. Back then, I was helping to set up a church hall for a Bingo game, and realized that they didn’t have one of those big display boards with lights and switches to let people know what numbers had already been called. There […]
Building a Resource Manager in React and GraphQL
My web development group uses a spreadsheet to track weekly time allocations for a couple of dozen web developers, designers, project managers and other specialists. This is useful in several ways, including letting project managers know how committed each professional is, and who might have some available time projecting vacation and holiday time allowing projects […]