Monthly Archives: October 2014

Grunt Timekeeping

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Recently I added a Grunt plugin to the front end workflow we have at work that handily displays a summary of the time taken by a project’s Grunt build tasks. Before this the team had only been aware of the overall time taken. Especially with LiveReload running, waiting for the page to reload with our changes.

We suspected the Compass compilation was taking “a long time”. But we didn’t know for certain how long and if that was the only problem area. With time-grunt we could now see a nice breakdown of each task’s time taken allowing us to know what to focus our performance improvements on.
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Autumn 2014 Update

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So for the past couple of weeks I have been busy doing some rather major refactoring work on KopiJunkie.net’s code.

I’m bringing my front end workflow up to date with modern front end development. I have to admit I don’t work with PHP much. In fact, the back end language I work with the most in general is Java. With some SQL (specifically, I work daily with MySQL databases). Actually, I’m not sure why I mentioned that as I will still be keeping some of the PHP functionality in the end.

Anyway, what is really happening is I am getting the site to not be dependent on PHP for the site’s content generation, i.e. the front end. In its place I’m going to be using a static site generator (namely Assemble) to generate the static HTML pages. There’s a fair bit more work that’s also happening with JavaScript.

But for now, while the work’s still in progress and I’m developing in the open with the code on GitHub, feel free to have a peek at what’s happening at the repo.