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Summer of fun

If I maintain the same development pace as the last eight weeks, I’m due to have a “Summer of fun”.

I’m two weeks away, one development iteration from a point in which I’ll be comfortable letting the Costs to Expect API and website run throughout the summer untouched.

They won’t be untouched; both the website and API are under active development; I’ll focus my energy on building the service, not the public website.

Dependant on your experience, as a developer, you don’t typically get to spend too much time working on new projects solving problems entirely new to you. Mid-way through July, that is me, I’m planning on locking myself in my office and getting down and dirty with my IDE, whiteboard, pen and paper.

My wife and children have told me that they have a very different idea on what a “Summer of fun” is; I’m guessing it is far less coding than my plan.

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Almost one year in, the fun begins

The Costs to Expect API is approaching the point where it includes all the standard and expected features; you can add items, edit, list, delete and summarise the data, all the features you would expect at a minimum from a basic Rest API.

This summer, the fun begins, almost one year after development began I get to start work on the non-standard features and start developing the Costs to Expect service.

It took a long time to get here, well, a year. One year ago, I had an idea; now there is a Rest API, three web apps that use the API and a shiny new website showcasing five years of data that we have collected.

I know what we have planned for the next couple of months, and I know the long term goals, it is going to be interesting to look back again in 12 months to see how much progress there was and how much we still have to do.

I’ll blog more about the specific features when I start development, during the summer, I expect progress will slow slightly as I spend time with my family.

Costs to Expect API – https://api.costs-to-expect.com
Costs to Expect Website – https://www.costs-to-expect.com
Costs to Expect on GitHub – https://github.com/costs-to-expect