Information highway potholes
The pothole (variety found on streets, not the one on Cammie’s stove) is a wonderful analogy for software updates. Generally, you can navigate around them, if your speed is within limits, but sometimes you have to drive straight through, holding tight to the steering wheel and glad that your seatbelt is in place and there are few loose objects to fly off the seat.
I’ve mentioned before that I think PHP and MySQL are wonderful. I’m discovering lots of ways to reorganize the motley details of my existence. I’m creating my personal “owner’s manual” using a wiki. Great for dredging up old memories and putting the new scanner to use.
But, after several failed attempts to get through the most recent software upgrade, I finally had to “drive straight through”. The database format evolved, and the script to massage the existing data just didn’t ease the pain. I have started over.
Version 2 is now online, after a weekend of copy/paste/retype/upload/edit. My pages have profited from the effort, but once again I have to be careful to not sing praise before opening the hymnal…
