It Lives ...

Much progress on the surviving garments database web interface. (No, it's not ready for play-testing. I'll tell you 'when'.) Last night, after much step-by-step debugging, I finished up one entire sequence of pages/programs from the selection interface to the report phase. Having a sucessful model to work from, the rest should go swimmingly. I'm really going for the stripped down training-wheels version of the interface to begin with, but I have a whole list of bells and whistles planned.

My usual approach to learning new skills is being well represented in this project. Do lots of background reading ("MySQL and PHP for Dummies" and similar works). Do lots of schematic planning. Discover there's some conceptual step that I just can't get my brain around and squeal for expert help. Then plunge in and start flailing around and tweak things until they work. I try to learn in a logical and systematic fashion, but when it comes down to it, things don't stick in my brain until I'm working hands-on. So I had a number of little function-bits written out in advance, but mostly I just wrote a basic-basic "do this, do that" program, nudged it until it worked, then started elaborating step by step.

I still haven't figure out how to run it locally off my laptop, but that can wait while I use the on-line version to work it up. After all, I still have a week and a half before I leave for Kalamazoo!

No garden notes: Nose to keyboard. (But I did get the lawn mowed back on Thursday.)