random ramblings of a crazed nerd

Well it’s early AM still for most, and the day is already 3 hours old for me, so far so good, I made my way to Denny’s this morning for some grub (I seriously need to go grocery shopping) - as I munched I got some work done on a database map for a project - it’s going quite well, the layout going out is my only real big fear, if I do get Lunch with Dan today, I’m definitely going to chat it up about that for sure, though in the end, I think it’ll come down to the customer’s desire, but I just need Dan’s view for a rough as he’s done most of the design work on the HTML end.

While the project was done as an “affordable deal” I am not doing a TON of magic, however based upon the conversations we had, and the roadmap for potential growth over the long term I have put in some place-holders to the database to be sure that when the time comes, it’s really only some adjustments to templates and database calls, vs. re-writing databases, code structures, etc.

I am also trying to do this in a rapid dev format, not so much for the “buzz word” value of it, but for the structure overall, that is one of the main things I like about Cake, Codeignighter etc. - a very clean, organized - easy to manage structure, while I could do that with my own code, why re-create the wheel so to speak - but it does mean learning a few tricks, but if it starts to prove more time consuming to get my bearings (Me = Old Dog & RapidDEV = New Tricks) - but I have started to lay a few projects out in the system already, one of which is my upcoming app to allow clients to manage their spam filters - as I would REALLY like to move folks to this filter and more or less kill local server filtering. (Re: Load)

Lastly on my mind, Leopard. My plan is as such, Friday, go try to buy it from CompUSA ($30 rebate baby!) if that fails, then no rush, basically pick it up when it’s back in stock locally vs. buying from Apple, but I do need to buy the Apple Care for my MBP, as it was purchased last year in Nov. so the warranty is coming up, and as I know there is something probably wrong with the drive, or as usual, some recall will happen, I figure I’ll get it while the gettin’s good.

Anywhoo - off to code a bit, then off to import a bit, then to the bank a bit, and then… a bit. lol

Tags: database, early, food, full, morning, project, random