Recently I cleaned up some shopping stuff so that if I got a single slider (that’s what I call the number picker guys) that was kind of empty, I would kill it. I knew that it wasn’t really in general, and figured that I would someday have to clean it up. Well, tonight was the night. Stuff that looked like this
now doesn’t have that last chunk. Not real sure where it comes from, but at least now I can clean it up 🙂
Also cleaned up something a little more subtle. My goal is to have a pretty generic shopping engine, which doesn’t know the difference between a hard drive form factor and the clarity of a diamond. That’s fine, except that also means it doesn’t know that IsLabCreated may not be the most meaningful, or weird contract warranty terms, or whatever. Tonight I added the ability to ignore a category of stuff. I even made it smart so that I walk the lineage of a category and look for ignore lists. The cool part there is that I didn’t need to ignore IsLabCreated for each type of diamond ring. So now, this
has the weird stuff stripped out. Granted I need to do a database insert each time I find something else to ignore, but that’s ok. I don’t have that many top level categories to manage (for now).
Next up, I would like to specify the order for distinctables to appear. Like color and clarity before number of stones, or the like.
Tonight it hit me that once I get a little further along, I can go put up some “looking for a friend in the diamond comparing business?” flyers at byu, since I think a few folks down there are looking for rings 🙂
Anyone have any thoughts on mycomparer.com? I registered it today. Gotta be better than shopthar, right? Still liking my diamondcomparer.com.
Enjoy!
Earl