Tech Journal – Orest

10 Jan 2024

Trendwatch 2024

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

I’m coming to terms with the idea that Trendwatch is going to be more of a hobby project rather than something into which I fully commit my time and energy. And so, a few months after my previous post, I’m coming around for another swing at it.

I had gone to what I initially called “multiple rounds of refactoring” and could probably be better described as “multiple rounds of rearchitecting”. Although I had much of the code working, I just wasn’t satisfied with the quality and readability of the code design.

7 Aug 2023

Trendwatch Taxable Gains

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

Introduction When I realized that I didn’t understand how the taxable capital gains were being calculated on my T5008 statements, I decided to build an app to help me automate my data entry, accounting, and reporting workflows. Laravel may or … Continued

19 Feb 2020

git bisect skip

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

I was doing a git bisect in my current development branch of Hello Bruce Trail to help nail down a particular problem. At a certain point I reached a commit that I could not test properly to determine whether it … Continued

17 Feb 2020

Refactoring EXIF GPS calculations

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

The Problem I’ve been revising and refactoring the way I handle the EXIF/GPS calculations in hellobrucetrail.com so often that I’m starting to think I may be “overfactoring”. Is “overfactoring” a word? A quick google search shows several hits that use … Continued

5 Jan 2020

What’s up, Docker?

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

Docker. It’s a technology I’d heard of several years ago and hadn’t looked into. I finally started reading about it. It looked interesting and I’ve been wondering about using it in my Laravel development workflows. One of my goals in … Continued

2 Jun 2018

Adding Jasmine unit testing to Hello Bruce Trail

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Tech Journal | 0

Introduction Development of the integrated Hello Bruce Trail is shifting to more of a focus on the front end. After reading several articles about test tools for JavaScript, I decided to look into adding tools like Jasmine and Karma to … Continued

9 Mar 2018

Hello Bruce Trail 0.3.1

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Blog, Tech Journal | 0

I deployed the 0.3.1 version of the integrated Hello Bruce Trail site to the demo site this week. It incorporates various under-the-hood changes that support CRUD operations (create, retrieve, update, delete) on Geomaps and the ability to upload photos. As … Continued

11 Oct 2016

Automating WordPress Theme Options – Part 1

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Blog, Tech Journal | 0

The purpose of this article is to explore and create a way to automate the copying of theme settings from one WordPress site installation to another. A common workflow when adding a new feature or design component to a WordPress … Continued

26 Jul 2016

Checking out the SiteOrigin Headline widget

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Blog, Tech Journal | 0

What does the SiteOrigin Headline widget offer? Do we need it, can we get by with the basic HTML <h1>, <h2>, etc, tags? Can we get by with the basic HTML tags? Maybe. After trying out the Headline widget, will … Continued

24 Oct 2013

Mac OS upgrade: using Migration Assistant to transfer settings, user, and applications

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Blog, Tech Journal | 0

I found a USB hard drive that’s been collecting dust in a closet for about three years. I noticed that it has a capacity of 500GB and therefore would make a great sandbox in which to find out whether Mac … Continued

20 Oct 2013

Mac OS: Facing the upgrade spiral

by Orest Nahacziwec | posted in: Blog, Tech Journal | 0

Now that I’ve upgraded my iPhone to iOS 7 it won’t sync anymore with my MacBook. The message I get from iTunes is “The iPhone … cannot be used because it requires iTunes version 11.1 or later.” The iTunes I … Continued