I've added a new feature to Weather Now: user profiles. It's only the most basic implementation and, at the moment, doesn't actually do anything. But it will lead to a whole range of features that the application hasn't had since it was an old Active Server Pages app in 1999.
Unfortunately, the deployment required setting up additional features on the weather API, so that user IDs travel from the UI to the API securely. The deployment took two hours, and threw up several pipeline failures for a reason having nothing to do with the API changes.
Anyway, now that the base user profile feature works, I can now add:
- User preferences for measurement systems (metric or Imperial);
- User-selected home locations;
- User-selected home page weather lists;
- Multiple custom weather lists; and
- Lots of other personalization features.
At some point I'll also finish importing the whole (9-million-plus record) gazetteer, so users can search for more places.
Now, however, I'm going to make some lunch now and take Cassie on a very long walk in the amazing autumn weather we have today.