Mike Divine's Learning Journal

     Well, this is the toughest journal entry I've had to write so far as I am excited to be moving forward but sad to finish this journey I have been on for so many years. I am 39 years old and have wanted to be a Software Developer since I was a kid. I had big plans while attending Jr College but life had a different plan in mind where I started a family at the age of 19 and I decided to put my goals of software development on hold. 17 years later, I was married to my wife raising 3 children, and working at the High School I graduated from while also coaching Football and Wrestling. I loved what I was doing but I felt like I missed out on my goals.      Covid hit and everything shut down. No more coaching and most of my job duties were diminished. It was at that time that I decided I would go back and finish my degree and make my career in Software Development a priority. Now here I am 4 years later and I'm finally finishing what I started out to do. I fi...

    This week, I finished all requested changes for the User Pull Request (PR) and it has been officially merged into the OED development branch. This development branch will eventually become the release of OED v2.0. The final changes included altering the install script to create a user with username test as well as the old username with test@example.com. I also updated the command line API to accept usernames through either the existing email parameter or the new username parameter. This allowed for backward compatibility for at least one version to allow people to use the latest method or to continue to use the old method.      For the CSV PR, I am still working on more requested changes which also include backward compatibility changes to allow users to use the existing method of using the meterName to update meters or readings and also allow them to use the new method of using the meterIdentifier to update meters or readings. I also have updated the API to...