{"id":705,"date":"2004-08-06T21:54:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/oops\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T21:54:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T21:54:06","slug":"oops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/oops\/","title":{"rendered":"Oops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, a work colleague (JPh) who knows a lot about education technology, physics, and grant proposals, wrote a grant proposal for us to develop some software. After a lot of messing about we came up with an idea for a software project that would involve me writing code for three days a week for the next eight months (ie cutting down my current job to 2 days a week). The aim was to produce some GPL code for use within the education sector. Lots of people were applying for the same grant and so it was very unlikely we&#8217;d win it.<br \/>\nOnly we did! This is due to JPh&#8217;s ability to, in the words of our director, &#8220;write a dandy grant proposal&#8221;.<br \/>\nThis is great news, but a tad scary: I never imagined we would! I&#8217;m very excited because it&#8217;s going to be something I can concentrate on without being interrupted with stupid stuff about passwords, user quotas, forgetful support staff, moronic requests and badly specified (if specified at all) web projects. It&#8217;s scary because&#8230;well it just is&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Another work colleague, &#8220;Sue&#8221;, who is extremely intelligent and generally lovely, came to chat to me about jobs etc this week. She is wasted in her current position but doesn&#8217;t believe it. We talked about all kinds of stuff but by the end she had decided to teach herself about PHP\/SQL. I&#8217;ve never met anyone who is more capable of learning complex stuff in such a short period of time than Sue. After our chat she:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installed PHP and MySQL on her TiBook<\/li>\n<li>Configured both of them<\/li>\n<li>Learned how to write PHP<\/li>\n<li>Learned about MySQL <i>and<\/i> SQL<\/li>\n<li>Exported her movie database from FileMaker Pro (yuck)<\/li>\n<li>Imported it into MySQL<\/li>\n<li>Worked out how to design an HTML search form and implemented the search in PHP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;in less than 48 hours&#8230;She should be running the department, not just working in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, a work colleague (JPh) who knows a lot about education technology, physics, and grant proposals, wrote a grant proposal for us to develop some software. After a lot of messing about we came up with an idea for a software project that would involve me writing code for three days a week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}