Status: I've been working and will continue to be working on the Eponym back-end.
My biggest project right now is the back-end to the Eponym of the Day & Blog of the Day portions of the Eponym main page. It may look simple enough, but the GUI that our writers use to add the daily eponyms & blogs is fairly daunting. Tying that in with our database server and other servers is easy compared to the error testing that I've been going through. It is so challenging to get user interfaces to gracefully handle users making mistakes and any of the other random errors that inevitably occur.
In the end though, it will be extremely easy for any non-technical user to be able to add content to these two components. The sad part is, no one outside of the company will ever see my masterpiece, just the data it creates.
Oh well, I'm still proud of it.
My fellow programmer, Jim, has been showing me Ruby on Rails this week and that seems to have some amazing promise. So, now I just need to learn Ruby, Perl, and understand AJAX better.. then I'll be happy, lol.
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