developmentStory

Were we come from

So how we got here. Well..., it started in the autumn of 2020 when one school project needed to be done. Members were put together more or less randomly, so the ideas, backgrounds and approaches were different.

First idea in the table was some sort of the maintenance program like https://www.marasoft.nl/ or https://www.alldevicesoft.com/et/. This thought, however was discarded by something more down to the earth.

And so the idea for plant app was born, a program which could program which could all the necessary data to all the people desiring and willing to get their hands dirty.

The road here was bumpy and dodgy. We had an imagination what that program should do but no idea how to do it.

For some members, the previous programming experience consisted on writing only snippets of code for some specific purpose only, not putting together full working app from scratch.

Only way ahead was to start experimenting: what was done was soon re-done to be followed by another re-doing.

In this way a basic application was created, that allowed to browse, search and save plants to garden for later viewing ( weeks I-IV and V-VI the log)

Next the application was put up under the name plantly. ( weeks VII-XII the log).

Lastly we thought to have different roles for the users, so that users could save their garden and not only be dependent on the browser and would be able to share the knowledge and the experience with different plants ( weeks XIII-... the log).

It's not perfect, but it consists a start to move ahead packing within a very long journey so far.