Doing the Google Kotlin training courses on Udacity – here – they’re free, why wouldn’t you. If you use View Binding, you can link the view to the code at compile time – potentially improving the performance.
Author: Snowy
Age Calculator – AutoComplete Field
I don’t want to use a calendar selector. You’re always hunting backwards and forwards for the correct month. I decided it would be better to use an AutoComplete text field. The most you ever have to do is click 3 letters, but that is only if you are born in June or July.
Elderflower Champagne – Year 2
For the first batch, I got in nice and early. The flowers are lovely and young. Actually picked at 6am, but it was a dry day, and they were lovely.
Bath Salts – First Attempt
Pick a nice warm day for pottering in the garden. It will be even better if you can find a friend to sit and chat with.
Weather App – More Weather
Trying to get more information about the look and feel of the weather. Yes I know there are windows, but that is not the point.
Connected Little Sandwich Box – Button
Added a button so that I can make the box do something. On the WEMOS the button sits between D5 and D0 – they are adjacent pins.
Connected Little Sandwich Box – Communication
We have two connected little boxes which we want to talk to each other. Connect them in turn to the computer. Use the Arduino ide. Launch the serial monitor, and make sure it is 115200 baud Type dump mqtt. Copy each line that needs changing, and add the value to the end. Enter the completed The full story here…
Weather App – Washing Line Algorithm
I would like to know when it is good to hang the washing on the line – should be simple – right? Well no, that is very wrong.
Weather App – Backlog
User Stories I know that you can use something Jira and countless other systems to manage your backlog. But this is not a normal project, this is a home project that I pick up in my spare time. There are no sprints or anything like that. All I need is a do list.
Weather App – Wind Direction
The obvious way to convert the wind direction into NSWE is with a nice long switch statement. But that seemed very long winded and boring – and this is my project, I am allowed to find a more interesting way. Thanks to mathsisfun.com for their excellent content on this subject.