Travis' Territory

I found a few good programming quotes on GarfieldTech to share:

"Programming is like sex; make one mistake and support it for the rest of your life."

--Anonymous

Life would be so much easier if we just had the source code.

--Anonymous

Arguing with an engineer is like mud wrestling with a pig; after a few hours, you realize he likes it.

— Jamie Lawrence

Meanwhile, I've lately started to update the code that was my project a number of semesters ago into Drupal 6 (it was a Drupal 5 project).

The task was to help a particular client. In this case it was the Council on Addiction Prevention Education. It was to make a way of students being able to track themselves while running, and to see an aggregate total to give them inspiration. Our code was writen as if this was the only real use case, with some available options, though not many. By the end of the project, we had trips able to be appended to any node type, a map interface based off of Google Maps, and it working within Organic Groups so you can keep each group independant of everyone else.

At the start of this semester, my professor (who was also the professor who had overseen that project while it was being done) let me know that he has one instance of Drupal running one of my cassmate's work now, although that is on Drupal 6 since that was done after the class ended - and he would like to be able to demo ours as well. Although currently it would require a separate install of Drupal in version 5 - I am working to make that doable in a single install via multi-sites.

As I was updating the code through the Coder interface I was pretty fluid with the ideas we had at the time of coding it, yet now I am more fluid with the general case as well, so I started again coding varius different options with the old code to go back to when I have issues.

Also, I'll only be taking one class next semester (again). Which class I am still considering, although I would like it to be Computing for E-Business, though approval seems to be an issue.