Thanksmas.WithAPlan

Simple website for managing family holidays.

Overview

My family alternates celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas. This is necessary since I have 4 sisters, so a total of 5 sets of in-laws, all across the country, have to be satisfied.

Additionally, my sisters are relentless in trying to pry Secret Santa pairings out of people, so I solved it with code -- if only the computer knows what the pairings are then there is no one you can badger the truth out of.

Current Status

Offline

Core Problems

• Holidays have a lot of moving parts
• Sisters are jerks

Lessons Learned

• Secret Santa algorithms are surprisingly complex, even when you are just using brute force
• Hosting windows and MS SQL gets very expensive very fast

Current Objectives

• Move the code out of BitBucket before Mercurial support expires
• Convert it to an Angular or React site, with a cheaper data backend

Tools

• ASP.Net MVC
• Javascript / jQuery
• C#
• Entity Framework
• Visual Studio
• MS SQL
• Mercurial / BitBucket