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It’s all good…

I was thinking I would create the entire AustinMash! site as a monolithic .Net web project with a SQL server back-end, since this is the technology I mostly use at work. But wait, I better check to see if my web hosting company offers Microsoft based servers. Oops, they do not - they have PHP and MySQL. Hmmm, I’ve been curious about MySQL, and I know that PHP is used quite a bit on public web sites, so what the heck, let’s try it! A new language is just new functions and new syntax, all of which I’m sure is documented on the web, so that’s no biggie. Plus, it never hurts to make the ol’ resume more buzzword-compliant. Did I mention this project would be an interesting challenge?

In this fashion is day two of weekend two spent: Download, install, attempt, research, fix, attempt, research, fix, EUREKA!

With the weekend coming to a close, the skeleton is in place, mostly assembled. Next comes the fun of putting some meat on those bones, as I envision the fine clothes it will eventually wear for its debut. Hmmm, should I top it with a fancy or a funny hat?