GasFillUp

There are many website and apps for managing and handling gas receipts, I wanted to try out something of my own. I have been working on a responsive web application called GasFillUp to track gas receipts and provide a simple report to display the gas usage. Its in beta phase http://gasfillup.azurewebsites.net, all through my way I was cherry picking neat and interesting stuff what others created. Its been a great end to end learning experience. Things to do, implement error handling, email support, more charts, other performance improvements.

This project revolves around one simple use case, one user can have more than one car. The app has three distinct features vehicle info, data entry and dashboard with infographic style report to display the historical gas receipts information. Upon registering, users have to create a profile for the vehicle.

Data entry begins by selecting the car.

Initially the dashboard is empty, when user enter the information into the system the dashboard populates with nice infographics.

The app is built using ASP.NET webforms, plain old ADO.NET, MySQL, Bootstrap for responsive interaction. Currently, the site is hosted with Microsoft Azure and the database is with ClearDB. This hosting platform is free hence you get lot of limitations, its quick way to port a website. Microsoft Azure looks really promising. The source code is hosted with GitHub, clone/fork it here GitHub

Apple WWDC 2014 feast for developers!

Phew..look at the list of technologies announced, enhanced messages, Handoff, SpriteKit, CloudKit, HomeKit, MetalKit,Swift (cross between Javascript, Python) and many more. This is the perfect time to jump and be a part of Apple family.

If you observe the trend in computing machines, hand held devices (x64 bit processor in palm) and servers (throw in 32 GB of RAM) are beefing up like crazy. The in betweeners MBP/Air are slowly decaying. How are the big players coping with this paradigm shift in hardware. Microsoft's answer ditch your PC, adopt Surface Pro. Apple's answer continuity. Its apps which are being shared across devices and the technology HandOff  if it really works that seamlessly it would be a game changer. 

 

Last year apple released the 64 bit processor for the iPad and iPhone this year iOS 8 is loaded with stuff which can truly bring value to the new Eco system. What really surprised was the new programming language Swift, Objective-C was defacto to Apple for three decades. I believe Swift has the potential to be what Java & .NET was for the enterprise. Overall, we barley touched the surface of mobile platform/computing, definitely headed in the ring direction.