News and Perturbations

After only seven years, the "frontend" to the database storage for my content is complete!

No more editing content in phpMyAdmin and the like. Hopefully this creates an incentive to put more content on the web.

Many attempts had been made over the years to build this system. One in 2005. One in 2007/2008. One in 2009. All of them probably failed because of excessive concentration on the GUI of the system and static HTML forms which were unpleasant to write and maintain. The final system makes heavy use of a form class (on-the-fly form generation from basic parameters) and an array of data processing functions which were already integrated into the site for other purposes.