100 Days of Code Day 88
Todays exercise was rail fence cipher. A very old message obfuscator that puts characters on a zig zag then smooshes the rows into one long string. The decoding made me think of how to do it for quite a while. I thought the community examples would show me how to do it better but I couldn’t make much sense of them. It is usually better to take stupid and obvious over clever and cryptic (add some comments people).
For the food diary, I finished the tutorial. I am not liking the hard coded SQL in the code. I was thinking maybe I should use something like GORM instead. Still, it is nice to have all of the tests passing and it should be somewhat reasonable to mutate it into a database structure I want. I did skip the Semaphore stuff at the end, I would rather run something like Jenkins locally instead.
I was watching a video where someone did something similar but with a different library. They had it all in a docker container. I may want to try that before I call this done. I should also watch the video where they put a web page in there.