The wife gets on these kicks and periodically I either step in or am 'volunteered' to help. The wife wants a way to catalogue our books, movies, and music, so she turned to me. I wrote rantfest (our blogging software, that will probably never be finished but still works well) and RCM (the nearly forgotten comic maker) from scratch, so why not make a program to do the cateloging. I have been intermittently (mostly off because of the influx of WoW) working on it for the last month.
I am calling the project Hol, as you probably guessed from the logo. I nearly finished the first part earlier today, the data input script (or 'Item' input), and I am fairly pleased with it. Now I just need to sit down with the wife and go through the placement of controls with her, and then that will be done. Next up with be the Item edit, followed by the search pages, and finally the Author edits. The Item edits should be very quick to create, test, and be done with. The search pages will take the longest to make even though the should be the easiest to code...there is just a lot of work there. And I keep convincing myself that the Author pages are going to be hard, but that is probably just because breaking the Author table will take some manual effort to fix. If my guestimation is right, I would say I am about 15-20% done.
It is fun working on it, and I am gleaning some stuff that will help with changes I have been making to rantfest. Oh, and yes, this is an update about a project you may never see. Have fun.
