perdian / flightlog

Flight log web application that keeps track of your personal flight history

Christian Seifert

I'm Christian Seifert, a seasoned software architect with a rich history spanning over two decades. I'm currently working as Senior Software Architect and Principal Consultant at esentri.

Originating from a deep fascination with technology, I dedicate my time to both hands-on coding and sculpting a cohesive architectural vision for teams and business collaborators alike.

I regularly speak at software development conferences, and publish articles mainly focussing on the human side of being a software engineer.

You can find more about me on my personal homepage at https://www.perdian.de.

The projects that I host on GitHub are my personal side projects. Applications, tools, utilities and sometimes just configurations that first and foremost scratch my own itches - things that make my life a little easier.

If you find them useful then I'm happy to provide a few resources or ideas.

Projects

Development helpers

• macosappbundler-maven-plugin: A Maven plugin that packages a Java application into a macOS application that can be installed into the applications folder and run via an application icon.

Personal configurations and lists

• dotfiles: My personal dotfiles which go a little beyond the classical dotfile idea and also include other configurations I use for my macOS machines.
• awesome-macos-applications: My personal list of macOS applications that I find useful.
• awesome-software-engineering: My personal collection of software engineering resources.

Applications

• flightlog: A web application that allows me to keep a record of all the flights that I have been on so far.
• divelog: One of my hobbies is diving, so similar to flightlog this application helps me to keep track of my dives online.
• podcastcentral: A podcatcher. A JavaFX application that allows me to easily fetch new podcast episodes from my favorite podcasts. Originally I used iTunes for managing my podcasts but I never really liked the experience, plus after the discontinuation of iTunes I didn't find the Apple Podcasts application that usable for my personal taste.
• mp3tagtiger: A JavaFX application that allows me to easily edit the ID3 tags of my MP3 files.
• fimasu (Finanzmanager Support): A quick (but not that dirty) solution to easily create a QIF file to be used for importing data into the Lexware Finanzmanager (formerly called Quicken).

Libraries

• flightsearch-api: A library of Java classes targeted to make working with flight search a bit easier.

Older projects

These are projects that I no longer actively maintain or even really look at. I guess it's just for nostalgical reasons I don't delete them completely.

• commons-fx: JavaFX helpers and utilities I used to use in my JavaFX applications.
• filerenamer: A small JavaFX application that allows me to rename a set of files via a regular expression.
• minesweeper: An implementation of the infamous minesweeper game I did just for the fun of seeing how long it would take me to implement this in Java.
• applewallet: A Java library to generate Apple wallet passes.
• ant-webstart: An ant task to generate a Java webstart configuration.
• devlauncher: A quick way to launch a Java application consisting of multiple JARs without having to fiddle with the command line and add each of the JARs manually to argument list. Basically what Spring Boot does a lot better these days.
• beandumper: A JSP extension that allows to easily dipsplay the object graph of all the objects available within the evaulation context of a JSP template.

flightlog's Issues

Optimize JSON Output for /airport

JSON for Airports returns too many information for timezoneId, as Java object inspeaction is used instead of simple toString output. Add special formatter to reduce output data.

Adjust ${contextPath} usage

Currently links to other pages are created using ${contextPath}/foo. As the slash is already part of the contextPath itself, it should be removed from the link creation logik to avoid a double slash in the path name.

Allow adding additional airlines

Not all airlines from the Openflights data represent the latest state or have the complete information for every case. For example the IATA code for Hamburg Airways is "HK" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_Airways) which is not listed in the Openflights data (https://github.com/jpatokal/openflights/blob/master/data/airlines.dat).

Instead the "HK" IATA code is used for two other airlines: Four Star Aviation and Yangon Airways.

It should be possible to have both a way of adding a new airline into the list of airlines used by the Flighttracker application as well as specifying which Airline should be used when looking up an IATA airline code.

An implementation idea would be to have an additional database table that can be populated with airline information and which is used from within the AirlinesRepositoryImpl to populate the internal Map from String to AirlineEntity after the initial data has been loaded from the Openflights resource file.

Add country flags

Add country flags to

• Overview Top10 list of airports
• Airport name in list page
• Airport name / airport information in edit page

https://semantic-ui.com/elements/flag.html

Re-enable import from flugstatistik.de

The import from flugatatistik.de was disabled due to XSoup no longer being compatible with the latest JSoup version.

TODO

Access the data from the XML flugstatistik.de source document using the plain JSoup API.