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Writing Lots of Code

So much going on this week!

In brief, I’m:

  • Fighting with MySQL. Up until now I’ve been able to

    use MySQL without having

    to deal with anything more inconvenient

    than the occational lack of a nested SELECT. But this week

    I got bit hard when the query builder that I built for a client

    wouldn’t work. It seems that MySQL doesn’t support nested

    JOINs either. So now I’m rewriting the relationships part of it

    to fake INNER JOINS through WHERE statements.

  • Learning Java. Many thanks to

    Bruce Eckel for

    making his book

    Thinking

    in Java available as a free download.

    Java is fun. Nice and object

    oriented. I’ll probably write a program in it soon just

    for practice.

  • Thinking about my web logging app.

    I’ve been delaying in putting my web logger application up for

    download. The biggest reason is that the

    Blogger API

    seems to be

    becoming somewhat of a standard,

    and so I think I should use it instead of my own

    off-the-top-of-my-head API. But that means changing some

    things…

    OK, I’ve decided: I’ll try to redo the API this week, and if I don’t

    get around to it I’ll just release what I’ve got.

On the TODO list: I really want to write a PalmOS app. But so far I

haven’t thought of any ideas for a useful Palm program that I don’t

have already. Any ideas?

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