I'm a moderate user
of extensions. As in, I have some favorites, but I'm not trolling the gallery
everyday.
I've never made one
before. No idea has either been both big enough and small enough to warrant me
building an extension.
In April 2016, at
Build, I saw Mads
Kristensen create & publish (with integrated CI, and pretty images) a
brand new extension during a 1 hour session. It was a great talk, and I had
promised myself that I would watch it again on Channel9. I also signed up to be
a VS Partner while at build.
I received an email
about a week ago saying my VS Partner status would be canceled, unless I
published a product in the next week.
Two days later, I
came across a fitting challenge for an extension. So I set out to build it.
I followed Mads'
video, and it was surprisingly easy. The docs are still very confusing for the
VS interfaces, but it was still doable.In the end, what took Mads less than an
hour on stage, took me about 5 hours of total work at my desk.
All in all, it was
still surprisingly easy, and I regret not doing it sooner.