Robert’s Rants & Rationalizations

Earlier this month of December, I broke the code which updates a user’s profile on one of my sites, Reunion Hall.  Of course, I didn’t know I broke the PHP code when I modified it because a few rows in the db wasn’t used any longer.  Ahh, the script wasn’t modified to reflect the missing rows…well, they weren’t missing.  I modified another piece of the code in the ‘add user’ script.   It has taken me, part time, several weeks to find the ‘errors of my ways’, a phrase my teacher would say. So what’s so big about this?  I’m not a programmer.  I can’t write code from scratch!  And, I can now mess with this stuff (php, mysql, etc.) because of open-source!  This saves me yearly fees of proprietary software such as cgis, databases, hardware, etc. Anyways, I found the problem, and I did it before the end of this year!  I have learned and hope I remember, next time.