Vegetable Gardening programing rest
By roystahl | June 23, 2008
Finally I am reaching the end of a long programming marathon. Since September I have been working on a large volume of changes to the vegetable gardening website for Plangarden. It has taken much longer than I expected to get everything put together. Up until now the changes have been hidden, on test sites or available to select gardeners. Over the next several weeks there will be a ton up updates and changes made to the site. It is very exciting to start to plant these changes on the site. Of course that mean lot of extra backups are being made, but that is a good thing. When all this is done I will take some time just to Veg out. Growing Vegetable has been great this season and already lots of things have been harvested, but then I digress.
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AS3 Datechooser gets action
By roystahl | June 5, 2008
It was a while back when I posted my intention to give away for free a datechooser that I wrote for actionscript 3. As a matter of fact, I had thought that it wasn’t wanted or needed by anyone so I forgot about it. In reality, I think it just took time to get ranked and now that people know I have it I am started to get requests for it.
For now I have decided not to bundle it as a component and sell it. I am just giving it to people that can agree so some simple terms: No use in a vegetable garden application, not to redistribute and sell and not to want support for a free item. That said it is a fairly loose agreement and not a deal breaker for anyone so far.
The code is delivered ‘as is’ but has been tested pretty extensively as I use it in my gardening application myself. I have bundled it and can deliver it with a sample project that shows it working. It relies on being in as files and not in the timeline.
Over time I hope to gather up others usage of it and post them here.
Here is a sample
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Plangarden 2.09 gets planted
By roystahl | May 28, 2008
Just released version 2.09 of Plangarden. We now have most of the old features of the vegetable plot layout software included in this release, plus all the new cool improvements that have been made along the way. Growing software from seed again has been harder then I would have liked it to be, but in the end I have a stronger plant to hang new fruit/features on.
There is just one last thing saving and loading of multiple plots to complete and it will be ready to move to beta testing.
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Vegetables for Mother’s Day
By roystahl | May 12, 2008
What is a flower?
A broccoli that hasn’t yet bloomed. So why not do some pre-planning in your garden, if you can, and get a broccoli ready to harvest by Mother’s Day. Imagine the delight of your mom as you reveal a bouquet of Umpia and a pot of boiling water. What say’s, “I love you mom” more than “eat healthy”? And if you miss time your broccoli it may be blooming instead.
In order to pull off this unique and strange mother’s day gift, first use Plangarden to see when your last Frost date is. Your Broccoli will need a good month of no frost in order to pull this off. If you garden by zones you better be an 8-10 hardiness zone, or located in a southern growing region or close to an ocean. Then track the progress of your Mother’s Day Broccoli by using the daily log. I would suggest that you make a few planting a few before and week after the intended date just to make sure.
As a back-up to this bold and daring plan, you might want to have dozen roses. Not all moms will understand being showered with a bouquet of broccoli.
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Web 2.0 Vegetables
By roystahl | May 7, 2008
There were some ideas worth harvesting at the 2.0 expo. Some of the demos of Flex using actionscript 3.0 where very good. One that I really liked included a network topography and zoom window on the size that was very classy. I had thought of this before for Plangarden, but now that I have seen it work effectively, I am very excited about how it can help gardeners navigate their gardens.
Also in the ripe vegetable catagory was some applications that integrated flash/databases and video. Here you could see where Web 2.0 was going and some future success stories.
I was able to dig up some dirt on a few companies that are potential partners for vegetable gardening plans and designs. Real solutions that will help gardeners get the most out of an online applicaiton. But for now we will need to look at one plant at a time and make sure we pick the right ones to partners with.
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