8 June ‘14

• I implemented location detection in my app today using pygeoip.
• I detected user network bandwidth by downloading an image at a URL using JS and timing it. This method gives network speed fairly close to as measured by other online speedtests.
• I toyed with html2canvas and implemented a dummy.
• I was wondering about the possible options we have for storing the generated client-end screenshots. I talked to skay and we came up with the following:
  • Use a web service like s3 (AWS)
  • Use Imgur API. It offers a limit of 1250 uploads per day, according to docs. We can also apply for getting our app white-listed because it’s free for all.
  • Save them locally on our server.

Thought for the day #

“Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good”: Don’t delay something in order to make it perfect when it already is good enough.