With Docker (and docker-compose) preparing a fully functional production quality Foswiki and Solr environment is simple and easy.

Simplifying a Foswiki installation is a large ask. Multiple operating systems, extensions, Perl dependancies, libraries, web servers etc. How can we make it repeatable and easy to do. First step find a Linux distribution that provides ALL the required perl modules.

To make the Bridge plugin and associated application available to others, the files need to be packaged and submitted to the repository. The process is well supported by the BuildContrib build script. I struggled whether to package the plugin and the app separate or together. For the time being I will package them together, since the app completely depends on the plugin. If it turns out to be the wrong choice, it is easy enough to split them.

This post completes the application. It presents the development of the page that displays the hands, ready to practice and establishes a front page that supports the selection of hands with particular characteristics.

In the previous post I discussed the start of an application that can store bridge hands. We defined the data to be collected and a mechanism to create the topics that store the data. In this post I will describe the implementation of some rudimentary displays of the same data. There are two parts to the playing of a bridge hand: the auction and the play. We will get to the play in the next post. This post deals with the display of the hands as dealt and the display of the auction.