The hideous webapplication is done. For now. There are a lot of imperfections and little problems that make the application somewhat short of what I wanted to see. However, I made a decision to run with the release anyway. I need to see if anyone in the world is interested before go on working my nights away. It's a tough decision, because I don't like to share unfinished projects.

I feel like the nameless hero from Star Wars. "Almost there...Almost there...Almost there". Hopefully I'm not attacked by a tai fighter any time soon.

I can't believe I am still spending my nights working on this web app. Although I have lots of excuses as to why the thing isn't finished yet...Lots and lots of excuses. I have to admit that I am pretty tired of working on it - I really just want to get a functional product out the door and onto the web. There are a lot of other things that I could be doing instead - like getting a full nights sleep, or doing the dishes, laundry, updating my website more than once a week etc, etc, etc.

At this point, though, I have finished the essential CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functionality for the application. While this is a shadow of my originally intended functionality, it brings the application to the point where I can use it to help me finish writing the application! Yeah! Hopefully the rest of the programming will go pretty smoothly - there isn't much more to do except for some fancy sql work and near endless revisioning of the ui. I suppose I could find myself adding some ajax library before I make anything public....In the end adding that will probably make the remaining development time about the same...I should do it sooner rather than later.

Whew. It's been a busy week. Workmen have been crawling all over my place for the last week. Generally they were screwing around and spending waay more of my money that I had originally intended. But they finished, and I should be warm this winter -- it will be the first time I've had a bona fide heating system in more than 6 years.
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Where's my coffee?
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I've also decided to undertake the creation of a new web application platform. I spent years and years working with php - but this time I'm going to work it up with java. The reason? Well I started this job and we do some jsp development stuff. The platform runs almost entirely on jsp and it's driving me crazy. All the php projects I made and/or worked on used some form of mvc - now I find myself in a shop that doesn't use it and the pain in my ass is unbearable. I figured it would be a valuable learning experience to create a platform that does things using some of the programming concepts developed over the last 20 years...unlike we do at work.