Traveller System Update 34 - Orbital info part 5

Orbital dynamics are hard! Maybe it is rocket science. Anyway, finished with at least the display for the edit. Just need to repeat for the create view, and then actually save off the data. Then add at least the primary to the index view.

In theory I enabled the multi-select, but now realize how would you tell which star type goes with which size? So - I need to make it single select, and possibly duplicate for multiple stars? Actually, I need to pull the star type stuff into a partial view and have a view per star. The create will need to have a "add new star" option as well. And this is one of the reasons you want to think things through before starting. As Abe Lincoln said, "If I have six hours to cut down a tree, I spend the first four sharpening the blade." And as more than one of my bosses has told me over the years, "Slow is fast."

Anyway, as this is a personal and honestly slightly meandering project, that's okay. But I'll have to add the partials to allow for multiple stars in the system. As well as making that work in the details view. And I do plan on cleaning up the landing page with drop-down menus versus the single line across the top. Just need to figure out what goes where. Which is one of the harder issues in software honestly: just where do you put stuff? I could bore you to death talking about repositories vs ORMs and various service layers. Though I will note that this application follows the basic standards so that other developers could easily find things for the most part. 

The job search is honestly depressing. 52 applications so far, 4 rejections. Main issue is I am an older software developer, and most companies do not want to hire older people. Which is silly - they are just about guaranteed that I'll stick out for a few years vs younger devs, who often have more options, will jump ship as soon as possible. And I do have a lot of experience. I figure I'll keep looking another couple of months then perhaps look at Lowes around the corner. Sadly, if not for insurance, I'd consider an early retirement. I have been working a long time. At least I've met a lot of really nice and interesting people along the way. Along with some not-so-nice people, but that is life.