This is just a short post to point out a couple of recent updates to the Soccer Simulation app, inspired by recent suggestions by users. Add custom club names It is now possible to replace club names used in the simulation with your own, custom club names. This feature was requested by a couple of […]
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Heroku and the Irreplicable Problem of the Sleeping Dyno
I was befuddled to say the least, the first time I stumbled across the Sleeping Dyno. For rather than manifesting itself in reptilian form, as a terrible lizard in its dormancy, presumably mustering its energies for some cataclysmic rampage – a sight that would, of course, have provoked minimal befuddlement – the Sleeping Dyno is […]
The Grand Unveiling of “Soccer Simulation”
Good morning ladies and gentlemen! This is my first post from my new home of Singapore, where I am currently holed up for a period of two weeks in a “quarantine hotel”, with * only * my wife Kate for company. We’ve been fully locked down for four days now, and overall it’s been surprisingly […]
A History of One Man’s Inexplicable Obsession with Football Simulation
Preamble In preparation for the release of my latest project, a football league simulation built in Python and served as a web app via Flask and Heroku, I thought it would make for a purgative experience to step through the history of my interest in football simulation. For it truly is a long and jumbled […]
International Football Results Analysis
Over the past month and a half I’ve spent my personal project time almost exclusively on what I’ve dubbed the “Soccer Simulation” project, which in a sentence could be summarised as “building out a Flask front end for a football league simulation I built using Python last year”. A true labour of love, this piece […]
Bargain Basement
Good day, and welcome to my first ever blog post on Will May’s Journey to Educate Himself in Software Development. Today I want to discuss my most recent personal project – an e-commerce website built on top of a custom-built PHP MVC framework, complete with both a customer-facing shopping experience and a staff-facing content management […]