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So, for the last two days, I’ve been building my first real database. It’s been an on-again, off-again process resulting in one hundred and three lines of four columns of information. There’s nothing like doing so much typing that after a while you just hope that everything has been spelled correctly (there’s no spellcheck in this version of Navicat). Man, are my eyes feelin’ all wonky.

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So this week has been an “out-of-sorts” seven days. I ended up getting sick around Tuesday/Wednesday and ended up not making it to class on Wednesday or the internship on Thursday. Hence, I’m doing another double post:

Jan. 26, 2010: Today Stevie and I finally started talking about the website. We won’t actually start mapping out the Drupal framework until the end of next week/beginning of next week, but we did discuss the “glossary of terms” page. The plan is to build a database with the current information, with a Read more »

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Jan. 5, 2010: The first day of the internship. I met my fellow “employees”. Most of them I had met before, since Erika (my wife) has worked there for some time now. I talked with Steve Klaniecki (my boss) about the job parameters and expectations. After that, I continued with studying PHP and doing the exercises from the book, PHP (Visual Quickstart) by Larry Ullman. Stevie Benge (webmaster) was not present do to being out of town, hence why I worked on exercises and studying but not any project yet.

Jan. 7, 2010: This day I Read more »