Re-learning to code
I would have thought coding would be like riding a bike. After almost a year of not doing any web development I just jumped right back in. Problem is/was - I forgot a lot more than I remembered.
I have been going back over a lot of my old web apps and wonder what the heck I did. Trying to build my tracking application is a bit trickier than I wanted it to be.
The truth is I could just hack something together but it would look just like that. A tossed together application. I am willing to put the extra time in to making it better than a hakish piece of garbage.
Right now I am just trying to lay a decent foundation on a few simple concepts. From there I can add more functions and some nice eye candy. This being the rough plan I am just getting simple form set up to insert basic job info into a data base. The tricky part is trying to figure out how a simple form can get messed up by the user. Enter regular expressions. Reg Ex’s were one of the reasons I stopped coding a year ago. The mere though gives me a head ache. The sad truth is though. If you want a decent applications with clean data you have to check that data - with regular expressions.
Oh well - Until next time I am of to bang my head hoping to second guess my end users.
-Ed