Tired and dreaming in code
Apr. 15th, 2006 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjWhy is it that the more relaxed a weekend I have, the less likely I am to get caught up on my sleep properly? Three-day weekend. Mostly unscheduled. Went to bed at a perfectly reasonable hour. No need to get up at any particular time. Lay awake until well past midnight, tossed and turned all night, and bolt-awake at 6 am with no hope of getting back to sleep. Well, ok, so maybe residual dental pain, having cramps, and eating an overly rich dinner may have contributed. And maybe the fact that I woke up at 6 am dreaming in PHP code suggests one teensy tiny contributing mental pre-occupation. But I'm still grumpy.
I'm actually having a lot of fun with MySQL and PHP -- it's been a few years since I learned a new computer language. And I've been mentally planning the database interface for long enough that it's just a matter of figuring out what bits of code I need to make it jump through which hoops. My current problem is that the coding examples in the tutorial are all very simple, so it's hard to know which bits need to get repeated for each additional complexity and which parts only need to get done once per program. I'm drafting it up in individual building blocks and figure that I'll start debugging with a couple of blocks and then start adding more until the tower is either built or it falls down.
It helps that the only interactive aspect of the database is the search function -- no on-line updating or editing of the database, so I can skip that part of the complexity (as well as skipping most of the security functions, since the worst case scenario is that I re-upload everything).
Garden: No garden update. Rain showers all day. But the weather people promise this is the last storm for a while.
This week I completed the fourth iteration of the 8-week housecleaning cycle (if I've calculated correctly) and as with previous iterations I'm doing a review and adjustment. A few new tasks added and some rearranged. The major modification, I think, is to change from the original 5-day-a-week schedule to a more compact 3-day-a-week one. I'd started testing it and found that certain clumpings of rooms worked very naturally. This means that I have a bit more freedom to schedule time-consuming evening plans without disturbing the Overall Plan. It's also time to attach some more of the stubborn Clumps that I've been working around (as is allowed by The Plan).
Time to swing by IKEA and shop for a bedside lamp. I'm tired of the really rather broken thing I'm currently putting up with.
I'm actually having a lot of fun with MySQL and PHP -- it's been a few years since I learned a new computer language. And I've been mentally planning the database interface for long enough that it's just a matter of figuring out what bits of code I need to make it jump through which hoops. My current problem is that the coding examples in the tutorial are all very simple, so it's hard to know which bits need to get repeated for each additional complexity and which parts only need to get done once per program. I'm drafting it up in individual building blocks and figure that I'll start debugging with a couple of blocks and then start adding more until the tower is either built or it falls down.
It helps that the only interactive aspect of the database is the search function -- no on-line updating or editing of the database, so I can skip that part of the complexity (as well as skipping most of the security functions, since the worst case scenario is that I re-upload everything).
Garden: No garden update. Rain showers all day. But the weather people promise this is the last storm for a while.
This week I completed the fourth iteration of the 8-week housecleaning cycle (if I've calculated correctly) and as with previous iterations I'm doing a review and adjustment. A few new tasks added and some rearranged. The major modification, I think, is to change from the original 5-day-a-week schedule to a more compact 3-day-a-week one. I'd started testing it and found that certain clumpings of rooms worked very naturally. This means that I have a bit more freedom to schedule time-consuming evening plans without disturbing the Overall Plan. It's also time to attach some more of the stubborn Clumps that I've been working around (as is allowed by The Plan).
Time to swing by IKEA and shop for a bedside lamp. I'm tired of the really rather broken thing I'm currently putting up with.
