Success!
Posted by Sean on September 10, 2008
I’m quite happy-I did something today I never thought I’d accomplish.
I wrote my first working (read: functional) PHP script today. It is a simple PHP script to insert a name, the current time/date and a value into a MySQL table. I know some of you may be thinking “Who cares-that’s trivial!” but to me, that’s a big deal. I never really wanted to learn PHP but I need it for doing my work at work, so I’m a little happy at that. Perhaps I can put that same determination to work for me at home and finally learn REXX beyond the rudimentary level. Maximus has REXX “hooks” so I could use REXX to do some utilitarian work for me.
On another note, my oral surgery went well yesterday. I had my third-to-last molar left in my mouth pulled. It went south and wasn’t worth saving. At the same time, I was discussion my options with my dentist on being able to eat again with a full mouth of teeth. We decided that I will get a full upper denture and a partial lower denture since I have very good lower teeth up front. He’ll have to do 11 extractions (all seven remaining teeth in my upper jaw are decayed and the rest are removing root tips from teeth that have simply broken off in my mouth under the gum), then a temporary denture while I wait to get my new one put in. It won’t be cheap but what price can you put on being able to eat?
Other than that, it’s quiet – I’ve been working on some more of my BBS doors in my spare time and fixing up the BBS. I’ve assembled four people for my Cheepware beta team and I’m quite happy with them. All good friends and able to help me out.
