In my former life, when I was a software engineer, I had grand plans for my site. And for various reasons, most of which I don’t even remember anymore, I had decided to convert the whole craft section of my site to be database (MySQL) and PHP based. Mainly I think I was planning to make it easier to keep updated. I started the process two years ago, lost interest, had a baby, stopped working, lost touch with any and all web and programming knowledge I might have ever had, and, well, now it’s two years later. I have no idea what made me decide to start working on this again two nights ago, but now it’s become an obsession. (As in a “stay-up-late, who-needs-sleep, just-one-more-line-of-code” kind of obsession.)<\/p>\n
So far I have a few test pages working, including a page to update the vital information about each project. The lines of code are slowly appearing out of the teeny-tiny little corner of my brain that survived the sleep deprivation and the invasion of nursery rhymes and lullabies. Actually, that’s somewhat impressive considering I’d never actually worked with PHP except for the few days I started trying to do this two years ago. I thought then – and apparently I still think this way – that if I just wanted it badly enough I could write PHP code. It seems to be working so far.<\/p>\n
If I don’t get sidetracked by something else (no guarantees on that obviously) I might even have this running by the end of the weekend. Of course, the goal is for it to look exactly the same as it did before – just the way the information is stored and updated would be different – so nobody will ever notice if I don’t finish it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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