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[bubosquared]

Today's plans: try and write own code for story-management system. Also, porn. *cracks knuckles*

... You'll note that it's now noon and I've yet to do either, by the way. Stupid customers. Gah.

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[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

did you have a look at the Automated Archive? /stupid question
(link just in case, though)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit weary about PERL (especially since AA is five years old at this point, bless it, heh), to be honest, and would prefer to work with mySQL/PHP, but I'm gonna give this a go and see. If nothing else, it'd be good to have a backup if/when I end up giving up on this coding-my-own thing in frustration. So, thanks! :)

[wibbble]

If your hosting has the facilities to support it, I highly recommend coding with Rails. It's a framework for Ruby, which itself is an incredibly simple language to use.

Rails completely abstracts the database connection and is generally awesome. For this sort of thing you'd maybe be looking at a weekend's work. It does so much of it for you by creating 'scaffolds' of basic code that all you need to focus on is the 'business logic'.

I have the rails intro book, if you want a loan of it.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Oooh, actually, my webhost has (Ruby on) Rails in its control panel, so I think I might be able to do this. *goes nosing about* Thanks!

[wibbble]

Ruby on Rails is the full name of 'Rails'. I can give E the book to pass onto you next time you watch Robin Hoodie and Lady M&S.

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I've managed to get something up and running now -- just fiddling with file uploads and such. But if you wanna send the book with E next time, I'll have a look -- if nothing else, it may be a much easier way of doing things. :)

[wibbble]

The thing to keep in mind is that it's a very different way of doing things than PHP or perl. Rails tends to run with its own web server (although you can use it as a CGI with Apache if you have to).

This makes it really easy to develop on your local machine, and really weird to try to deploy to a shared hosting platform. You might need to ask your host for help with it.

But it is so much easier to work with than anything else. It does everything the right way out of the box.

[ktnb]

Is your mailing address the same as it was last year? (She asks as she works on Christmas cards...)

[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

It is indeed. :D

[ktnb]

Yay!