I wrote last week about the six-month app challenge I am working on; which is to release an iPad app in the next six months. Over the past couple of years I have mostly been working with progressive web apps or in recent times a Maui app written in C#. I haven’t done much at… Continue reading Learning SwiftUI – Again
The App Challenge: Zero to Product in Six Months
I have been thinking about building a particular product for a couple of years now but just haven’t made, or perhaps kept, the commitment to keep working on it. Rather than keeping to myself, I thought it would be wise to share with the world what I’ll be working on with the aim of being… Continue reading The App Challenge: Zero to Product in Six Months
Welcome
Welcome to newill.dev. This is my blog about dev in general, from the books I read to the code I write and the side-projects I am building. My life is pretty full of adventure and responsibilities, such as being married, having five children, ages 14 and under, and responsibilities in my church life. This blog… Continue reading Welcome
Using GraphQL in Laravel with Lighthouse PHP
Although I wrote about how to create a model and controller with one command line, it will be unlikely that I will need to do this for the API I build because I am actually going to be using GraphQL. I first used GraphQL last year when I maintained an API for a company and… Continue reading Using GraphQL in Laravel with Lighthouse PHP
Creating a Controller and Model in Laravel
I recently started building a new SaaS product for note-taking. It’s very early on in development. This series of posts serves partly to remind me how to do something, and also as a way to help anyone who is searching. This series is not intended to be a comprehensive series of posts to cover everything… Continue reading Creating a Controller and Model in Laravel
Moving Chessboard Pieces with Pygame
I am working in a small team of friends learning Python. To learn the basics of it we decided to build a chess game. This is the third post about it. You can see part 1 and part 2 here. In this post, I will cover how I move the chess pieces. I do not… Continue reading Moving Chessboard Pieces with Pygame
Creating a Chessboard with Pygame Part 2
Recently I wrote about learning Python by creating a chess game. I am new to Python, although not new to programming. Python has intrigued me for the last few months, especially how popular it seems to be (second place on GitHub fourth quarter 2020). When an opportunity came up to work with some friends and… Continue reading Creating a Chessboard with Pygame Part 2
How to Ignore Files with Git that Have Already been Committed
After setting up the beginnings of the chess game in my IDE I found that there were a lot of files that I accidentally committed but did not need committing as they were related to the IDE. The others in the group are using different IDE’s and have no need to see those files related… Continue reading How to Ignore Files with Git that Have Already been Committed
Creating a Chessboard with Pygame Part 1
I mentioned recently that I was learning Python. I’m working with a few friends on learning the basics. My background is mostly Objective-C and in recent years, Swift. I also programmed in PHP last year for several months working with Laravel, Lumen, Lighthouse, and GraphQL. To learn Python we decided to begin looking at making… Continue reading Creating a Chessboard with Pygame Part 1
Learning SwiftUI
In 2020 I swapped from primarily doing iOS development to doing some backend PHP work for several months where I used a custom microservices framework and then switched to Lumen, and then to Laravel, and then integrated GraphQL with Lighthouse to make backend APIs for a couple of different projects. It was all good fun… Continue reading Learning SwiftUI