Developing Dane

Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . I spend time most weekends programming, typically in the evenings over a craft beer at my favorite pub . During these sessions I occasionally perform pressing tasks for my job but most often I use the time to explore and further my craft. Sometimes I watch videos, others I read but mostly I write code. During these exploratory development sessions I like to work with or towards a fully functional application. Hello world style apps are useful for demonstrating components and features but you never truly understand such components until you integrate them into a more full-featured application. A year ago I started the latest of of my exploratory development applications, the fourth in ten years. The new project I named RecipeBox. RecipeBox was conceived as a recipe storage application for the cloud. My wife expressed a need for a simple way to store her recipes and have them readily available from anywhere. Such an