Melted Carpet

Wednesday December 22, 2004 - 12:10AM EDT

I just noticed today that where I knocked down the flaming lamp the carpet has melted in a small place. No big deal. Again I have avoided going outside as the weather is terrible. I guess I should feel lucky it is a brisk 34 degress instead of 11. 54 on Thursday though. I should start working on a weather machine.

I am almost done complete functionality of the client tracking software for the administration side of the software. I still need to do the user interface styling and the client view side of the software. I really like the way I setup the software. The MVC model makes for very rapid development once you have a base architecture setup. It will also be very easy to upgrade and add new things. There are still a few areas in which I can consolidate and modularize. Also there is a couple area where better error reporting would help the end user. At least I have input validation covered. I became almost fanatical about that after reading an article one day about data validation. Every single pice of information input into the software is checked for validity. Hopefully this means it is fairly hardened to cross site scripting and sql injection. The only thing I have to improve is referential authenticaion and implement concurrency checking in the front-end to prevent data overwritting. I've done it before in a web-based app when I worked at MBNA (too bad they never got around to using it). It is very easy to implement and I will add it later. It is something you only really need for multi-user web-based front-ends, which it will be but is not at the moment so it can wait a bit until version 2. I figure I have a solid first version of the application. I could try to sell it but I don't know if it will sell. Maybe I will make version 1 open source and post it on sourceforge, then sell version 2 after getting feedback (if people use it). I think it could be a really useful application for freelancers like myself. Yes I will offer it for free to get initial feedback, improve upon it then try to sell it for a small fee. Hopefully it will work out. The software actually isn't that bad for about 5 days worth of programming.

Looks like movie studios are starting to crackdown on movie downloads. It was never something I did, as the quality of the files is terrible and I personally like going to a movie theater. I can't imagine that they lose that much money from downloading, I suspect they lose more from the bootleggers on the street corner. They couldn't shut them down after all these years now they are going to try and shutdown downloading, ha, good luck. I just like going to the theater too much to download and watch a low quality file on my computer screen.