Ignorance is Bliss

I'm still avoiding the Big Biggie - many-to-many relationships. At least I fear it's a Big Biggie. It could be a straightforward wrapping of a few ForeignKeyFields. But I'm still avoiding it, because it probably is a big horror show waiting to happen.

Case in point, just now, I started fixing on the very first rows of code in LightFrame. And it's good that I did, because the logic was totally wrong, so that's fixed now. Then I started mucking about in the SQL object, which also was a good thing, as now (I think) I have a working mysql_last_id() counterpart for PostgreSQL (why, oh why, doesn't pgsql have it natively implemented?!).

Anyhow. I thought that this meta-development, or development for development's sake, can take a rest for a while. I've decided to try to do something real with LF. Something simple, but practical - like a blog of sorts. Whatever I find lacking in the current LF implementation, I will code it as I go. This maybe means that I start working on some magic, built-in, CRUD, which should be very useful.

Once I've got the simple blog written down, I have a project that has actual use in the future. The project has actually been on hold (for months), waiting on LF, so that I could rewrite it simpler. It's not going to be public, but the complexity of it is somewhere in the blog-area, so it's not something awesome. Merely useful, needed and something actually in use. I'll see if I can get the testblog hosted somewhere for everyone to tweak on. Perhaps I'll get it stress tested also, which would be very interesting to see. I'm expecting mind-numbing slowness, but at least I can see where the clogs are, although I have my good suspicions already where they are going to be.

Anyhow. Little progress, some fixing, big plans. The usual. The progression will (or at least should) slow down even more due to a few thousand photos waiting to be edited, some job interviews and two dreaded exams. I actually should be reading to them right now, instead of writing here. But, obviously, I'm not.