Colder

Saturday December 18, 2004 - 2:12AM EDT

Getting colder and I don't like it. Have a solid Navigation base for the client tracking software as well as the DB backend. The script architecture is also set. It is really a very simple program. It will probably take me longer to design the fancy UI than it will to code all the scripts. I'll start coding the scripts tonight. I figure I will implement all the functionality before polishing the interface, which makes sense of course. But sometimes I'll have a tendency to work on the interface too much before functionality. Sometimes you need to though to get a good balance of form and functionality. There is a single controller module that loads sub modules. It probably cannot be said to take full advantage of the MVC model as coding is still mixed with HTML. It is more my own take based losely on MVC principles. The controller module simply takes arguements (usually querystring, somtimes post) and determines what modules to load based on the arguements. Its very simple nothing real complex, but it works well.

I'll meet with two people about websites this weekend. I want to finish this client tracking program this weekend so I can focus on other projects. I am thinking about finnally getting that development server from Server Beach. I want InnoDB engine for my databases. Also I'll be able to use it to host some of the software I am creating. I estimate the server will cost around $200 a month. I'll definately need to save up some cash. I should really get the test server I have sitting in my house up and running first before I go and buy something. It has Fedora on it, I just need to hook it up to my router, setup SSH, Apache, MySQL and PHP. I figure I'll setup SSH first and just setup everything else from the shell to get practice setting things up from the secure shell. Ok time for more work.