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by kfullert • 12 years ago

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kfullert2• 12 years ago

Hi,

This is related to an Ask HN I posted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8464118) - to summarise, I'm a primarily C# dev working on extending/customising existing off-the-shelf CRM systems, but I want to expand myself and learn more diverse technologies.

I built this as I sell on eBay infrequently, and the Royal Mail price-finder (http://www.royalmail.com/price-finder) assumes you know off the top of your head whether what your sending is a small parcel, medium parcel, large letter etc. so this way you just enter the dimensions/weight and it works out what the different services would cost (and automatically excludes services which aren't available for the dimensions/weight of your package)

I put this together over about a day to start to learn AngularJS (it seemed to have the lowest barrier to entry and my JavaScript skills in general are novice level) - the next step for me now I have something that _actually_ works is to learn how I should re-factor it to make it more maintainable and implement testing of it, so that when the prices update I can be sure I've not broken something.

If anyone has any feedback as to how/where/what I should be looking at doing with it to refactor it to be more maintainable/testable that would be greatly appreciated.

Lastly, all the data it needs is currently stored in the controller (such as the points for different parcel sizes and postage costs) as I was hoping to make it available offline and potentially package it in something like PhoneGap and have it able to run even if there was no network available.

uberneo• 12 years ago

From where you have got this data?

kfullert2• 12 years ago

At the moment, just manually typing it out from the official price-list

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