- school choices displayed as a table
- an interface to edit school data
- producing a print-ready Word, LibreOffice or PDF doc
I learned a huge amount of Javascript and jQuery pretty much from scratch for this project. I also refined my PHP skills rather a lot. But if I had to point to one major take-away lesson, it's not a technical one per se. Rather, it's that I continually and drastically underestimate the time required to actually produce a working code solution to a given design challenge.
This inability to realistically assess time requirements plagued me with the initial website overhaul in 2009 too. I tend to underestimate time required for simpler projects, but turning "I know people have solved problems of type X, with tool Y" into "problem solved" is my real blind spot.
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I spent most of yesterday evening cooking up a whole 2# bag and a bit more of frozen chicken tenderloins. Another thing I've been eating a lot of, which is sort of cheap and satisfying and tasty but probably not very good nutritionally, is Mrs. T's spinach-feta pierogis. Half a $2.79 box arrays in a neat circle in my little nonstick frying pan with a tablespoon or so of olive oil. I drizzle a little wine over them, heat on medium til the bottom is lightly toasty, flip until the other side browns, and chow down.
Sometime during the week I made a bag of Celentano frozen tortellin, and served half with a little jarred Classico spicy red pepper sauce, but I still have the other half-bag cooked, naked and refrigerated.
I caught a couple hours sleep from ~midnight to 2, and then a couple more from ~7-9:30, but basically I pulled an all-nighter doing the gruntwork of recoding that long processing procedure (formula 1 of 6) from JavaScript to PHP. The landlord woke me knocking to collect rent at 9:30. The toll of sleep-dep manifested with a foot cramp, something that used to be a frequent problem for me, but which faded away for quite a while. I don't remember it being an much of an issue since Waterways, actually.
Instant coffee propped me up OK at the office, Kung Pao shrimp for lunch and the second half of my subway sammich from yesterday for dinner, had to wait up for the landlord to come collecting again but after he showed ~6:30/7pm, I conked out and caught up on much-needed sleep for about 3 hours. Now I'm hungry again.
Fortune: "Teamwork makes the dream work." ... in bed.
I had exactly one generous glass of wine left from the magnum of Sutter Home I bought on sale Sunday. That softened me up enough that I might actually sleep til morning after the evening of off-schedule hard napping. A couple chx tenderloins cold on ww bread quelled my hungries.