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inventions of wheels
Friday, September 10 2010
Ray and Nancy had us over for lunch today down at their new house in Old Hurley. It was the food Ray usually makes for us: two different Indian curries (spinach and mushroom) and jasmine rice. Ray also offered me a Mountain Brew Ice, but I had to work this afternoon and that would have ensured that I got nothing done.
I spent most of the day taking a half-built PHP/MySQL-based messageboard system I'd made for a site called Ecoperks.com (don't ask!) and completed it enough to get it working as a support messageboard for the downloadable product site I've been working on. Of course, as web developer, whenever you find yourself building something from scratch, you always end up hearing something from your employer to the effect of "why reinvent the wheel?" These same people, when confronted with the integration of someone else's pre-invented wheel, always wonder why it is that the feature they find most critical isn't present. So then they want some other pre-invented wheel integrated, causing the poor integrator (me) to have to learn someone else's arbitary and capricious templating system, among other things. It's just better to have my own pre-invented wheels, even if I have to use the development of various people's websites as excuses to work on them. (In the case of developing messageboard systems, I actually have more experience than most of the developers of the various available pre-built "solutions.")
This evening our friend Edoardo, his girlfriend Genevieve, and Edoardo's mother Julia all arrived at our house to spend the night in preparation for a bunch of work tomorrow restoring Julia's West Hurley house to liveability. This is the house that Julia sold to a marginal family that needed Julia to act as their mortgage lender. When they inevitably failed to pay their mortgage and had to be evicted, they left Julia with a wrecked house. Tomorrow they'll be taking delivery of a new stove and dishwasher, just two of the many things that didn't survive occupation by a seven member redneck army.
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