Following on the “back to basics” theme, I spent a few hours this morning retooling my website, simplifying it and cleaning it up. It is still a work-in-progress, and while it is not as bare-bones as my reading list, I have tried to keep it simple. I was excited to be able to add the…
I spent about 6-7 hours today working on interfaces for my book collection/reading list databases. It’s possible that by tomorrow I will have enough in place to make some of this more public so that people who are curious can take a look. I’m quitting for the night on this, and I’m just going to…
I got home from work at about 6 PM and I have been working on updates to the book/reading database ever since (virtually without stopping). My goal for the weekend was to (finally) get the web-based interfaces for updating the database put together and I made pretty good progress tonight. I got the interfaces for…
At home, I maintain my book collection, reading list, and story submissions databases within MySQL on my iMac. I have scripts that take this data and either build static pages, or create flat files that can be used by perl or PHP scripts to present the data on my website. Currently, my reading list is…
Yesterday, I worked at getting my story submission log online. Today, I began the process of getting my book collection database online. I’ve stated with a few simple, common queries and over the next few weeks, I will add in some additional features, including the ability to search the database. For now, you can see…
I’ve been meaning to do this for years, and I finally got around to it this afternoon. For the last 14 years, my haphazard system for keeping track of my story submissions has been a set of index cards. Yes, that’s right! I make my living as a software developer and I still use index…