Useful Databases I

I was in search of a poem about rimming …. oh wait. Now that is an awkward way to begin a blog entry  I guess. Let me explain… Or better, just forget about the explanation, here is what I wanted to share:

I discovered that one of my favourite websites spawned as a sideproject a limerick database, which I have to say is quite an awesome invention. My current favourite is:

if(computer.fail==true){
background.setColor(blue);
user.frown();
sys.shutdown();
user.scream(“OH, FUCK YOU”);}

More and probably better ones at limerickdb.com

P.S.: If I find one, I will share that with you, too. Promised.

Database Worries

After basically half a year I’m back to zero with my database project. I had found a PHP programmer that was willing to help me smoothen my programming of all the forms and tables that the Database needs to interface with the website, and he said his work had progressed quite a bit. Then in the last weeks he ditched some dates, and it looks like I won’t get anything out of the cooperation. His reasons sound convincing, but in the end the result is the meter to be judged by, and… I am back to Zero. Means I can devote more of my free time to the project and start to do it all by myself again, or I can start looking again for someone to help me, either in exchange for stuff I can do better like CSS and Webdesign, or I might need to pay someone. In either way a very frustrating experience – particularily so since so far I’ve made only good experiences collaborating with friends.

Next step in any case will be registering a new website and putting the stuff online again, for debugging, testing, and as a showcase. But thats only getting me to where I left the whole darn thing in 2007.

So, if there is some nice PHP-programmer out there who is interested contributing to a very uncool, data-heavy, sober historical database project that will bring us nothing but fame and glory, let me know, and I’ll be happy to provide details.