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December drinks, More books, Library databases, War Crimes
As the end-of-year approaches, sociability cranks up a notch. Housewarming party for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
severina_242 and _zombiemonkey was plenty of fun. Last Monday was the end of year dinner from the ALP indigenous affairs policy committe with a couple of Yorta Yorta elders in attendance. Last night two engagements; frou_frou's Circa Vintage, where everyone was dressed to the nine's of course followed by Caroline's 21st birthday gathering.
I have overspent recently on books, but that's hardly a bad thing. A good dozen books on games and network programming are on the way from the U.S. courtesy of Amazon and hot on their heels is another twenty or so gaming books. Recently I have also managed to pick up a copy of GURPS Bunnies and Burrows, which is amusing me no end.
Current interesting work project is moving a 3,000 item database (well, a flat database) to a web-based interface with PHP and MySQL. Should be easy enough and if it works I'll start doing the same for a number of other community organisations who have libraries. I'm sure however, that someone out there in the world has done this before and there must be a pre-existing template.
There's been a lot going on in the political world in recent weeks, but I'm particularly interested in the call by Harold Pinter, who has just won the Nobel Prize, that Tony Blair be tried for war crimes. We will get these bastards one day... Howard, Bush, Blair. BTW, who else has been watching The Power of Nightmares, which makes excellent ties between the stupid politics of Islamic fundamentalism and American neo-conservatism.
severina_242 and _zombiemonkey was plenty of fun. Last Monday was the end of year dinner from the ALP indigenous affairs policy committe with a couple of Yorta Yorta elders in attendance. Last night two engagements; frou_frou's Circa Vintage, where everyone was dressed to the nine's of course followed by Caroline's 21st birthday gathering.I have overspent recently on books, but that's hardly a bad thing. A good dozen books on games and network programming are on the way from the U.S. courtesy of Amazon and hot on their heels is another twenty or so gaming books. Recently I have also managed to pick up a copy of GURPS Bunnies and Burrows, which is amusing me no end.
Current interesting work project is moving a 3,000 item database (well, a flat database) to a web-based interface with PHP and MySQL. Should be easy enough and if it works I'll start doing the same for a number of other community organisations who have libraries. I'm sure however, that someone out there in the world has done this before and there must be a pre-existing template.
There's been a lot going on in the political world in recent weeks, but I'm particularly interested in the call by Harold Pinter, who has just won the Nobel Prize, that Tony Blair be tried for war crimes. We will get these bastards one day... Howard, Bush, Blair. BTW, who else has been watching The Power of Nightmares, which makes excellent ties between the stupid politics of Islamic fundamentalism and American neo-conservatism.
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But unless you are using an already developed product that does just what you want, they can be a big time sink. Zope and plone are great choices for biggish projects, especially when you have either an existing guru and/or a big organisation wide commitment, but can be problematic for small organisations and small projects. Training people in how to administer zope/plone is no easier than MySQL and PHP.
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*nods*
Wise Dave speaks again.
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The advantage of DIY tables in MySQL is that most web hosts these days provide PHPmyadmin or similar, and ODBC to MySQL is trivial. Providing multiple ways to get at and modify the data is the best way to avoid "dead media" problems.
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Yeah, PHPmyadmin is quite nice. *nods*