Today in music: Mulehead rock. They’re a great alt-country band from Little Rock, Arkansas, and they’ve been in my CD player at home for over a week now. Just today, I finally scored a copy of the latest Queens of the Stone Age album. And, as I type this, the CD changer has just moved on from Mulehead to the Nancy disc (which I’m still quite proud of). I swear I will get off my dead ass and launch our new site this weak (are you reading this, Sean?
The web economy might still be drying up, but I don’t care. My PHP and SQL skills are comming up. If it ever does turn around, I’ll be in a better place. And maybe by then I’ll have finished up my portofolio (what a project that has become). I rolled a nice little polling application on Friday in about 45 minutes. A good eight hours more and it could be a nicely polished piece of work. And the Online Progress Reporting Tool (OPRT) that I rolled for UB is, for all practical purposes, a finished product (there are a few admin screens I’d like to add. Currently, there’s one for adding new students but you have to drop to the command line to edit or remove them. That’s maybe two or three more hours of work). I think it took eighty-eight hours total, which is really good considering all that it can do.
I started learning Flash 5 last night. I’d taken a few stabs at it before, once using the built-in tutorials and one using some Peachpit book (which, for once, wasn’t a good idea). But last night I just cranked it up and kept playing with it until I figured a few things out. I actually worked up a nice little intro (I know you’re probably sick of those by now) for wheatdesign but I haven’t uploaded it yet. I’ll probably add it on Monday. I’m going to teach Flash this summer at TechCamp, so I need to learn enough to keep ahead of the kids. :)