Jim’s Development Blog

I’m interested in doing some other projects using the same multi-phase scenario as the museum software project. Topics I hope to tackle include:

• Food preparation, recipes, and dietary statistics;
• Human resource software including a pre-processor for the typical payroll service bureau; and
• other business related applications.

The web portion of all of these projects will be implemented (for testing purposes) on my web server, which is a Linux-based machine with MySQL as the database. This will be a real learning experience for me, as I have never written anything that uses SQL for the back-end. I’ve played around with SQL in the past, but I never got into creating views and multi-level select statements (if that is the correct term for the complex queries I’ve seen other developers put together). Therefore I am studying and playing and developing all at once. It’s interesting, but progress is slow.