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[14 Jul 2005|04:49am] |
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Galt MacDermot - Coffee Cold |
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so, i came home after dinner, fairly early in the evening (before sunset), planning to settle in and watch a movie or two, then go to bed. instead, i somehow got sucked into fleshing out my idea for an alumni database web site and after 4 hours or so of hard work, the database itself is in place as is the [relatively] secure login system. this, i think, was what i'd thought would be the hardest part. i'm tempted to say that all that's left is to design the interfaces for searching and editing and signing up and to design the admin interface, but describing that as "all that's left" seems like a gross misstatement. but i'm fairly confident that while all that will certainly take me longer than all the work i did on the login stuff (and setting up the database, but that was easy), all the stuff yet to be done will be much easier to do than the login stuff.
it's still fun to spend all night hacking code and learning stuff and actually completing something, especially having done it more or less just for the hell of it and not for any particular direct [monetary] gain.
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