End of the long day. I’m about to head out of the office and walk home. I’m afoot because the battery on my truck is dead, but it’s a welcome change and I can use the exercise. I spent part of the day in Farmington, a small town near Fayetteville, recruiting for ETS. The rest of the time was spent working on reports. The only coding I did was to clone the guestbook script from the academy page and create a second guestbook which I temporarily called “Discussion Number 1.” On the Academy site, we’re going to create an entire series of guestbooks on various topics for the students to access, read, and reply to. I’m trying this guestbook-as-forum instead of a traditional discussion board, in hopes that it will be simpler to use and administer. Eventually, I may try a full-fledged, database-backended solution (like phorum or one of the many other PHP-powered ones). But for this first stab I stuck with Perl/CGI in the interests of simplicity.
Time to go. I’m not looking forward to teaching tonight, which is odd for me…