Jani-Hur wrote
> I'm new to web programming. Thanks to economical turmoil I've plenty of
> free time
*** I've been meaning to write an intro post myself. Like in the AA
meetings:
"My name is Jerry Kaidor, and I'm a programmer..."
Well, I used to be a programmer. Did it for a living for 20 years.
Mostly embedded systems, networking equipment, lots of C and assembler.
In 2001 I saw the handwriting on the wall, and started buying apartment
buildings. Now I do business as a landlord. But it's hard to get out of
the programming habit. I was sitting down one day laboriously doing my
tenant ledgers ( on paper! ) and said to myself - "gee, a computer could
do this really easily".
I implemented my ledgers as a set of mysql tables. Started learning
Perl, and implemented the user interface as a set of CGI scripts.
Added code and database tables to track maintenance. Also prospective
tenants - added code to create rental agreements and various notices.
And ( as they say in the ads ) much, much more :).
And I have much, much more that I still want to add. But the whole
thing is getting a little complicated. It's time to go back in and
reorganize things a bit for easier development. The old "Code Tidy".
Luckily, it has been reasonably well organized from the beginning. The
HTML-creation code has always been separated from the database access
code. It has been pretty easy to go back and put things in proper Perl
packages.
I would like to ultimately wind up with an MVC organization. But it
seems to be too much work to rebuild the whole thing from scratch as a
new project. For now, I am using CGI::Application to strip out the
giant if-elsif statements for the CGI state machines. It's a major
change. So today's sub project is to get the whole mess under source
code control. For a one-man project I don't need anything fancy, so
will just use CVS.
- Jerry Kaidor ( je...@tr2.com )
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