Updating the Database

Today I will be updating the database with your Atom/RSS/XML urls… Some of you never inserted the url which is cool, but a good majority of you inserted the wrong address into the field… Soooo why am I doing this? well… I’m also re-designing the site. I’ve been playing with my files and trying to come up with different look. I have no idea of what I’m doing… The whole thing is that it’s hard to create a new look after getting used to the one we already have and have come to “love”. A new design would be nice but I don’t think it’ll be that much more different. However the new “features” or “goodies” as some may say might intrigue more visitors.

An AJAX platform for adding your own feed and customizing the sidebar. Different CSS Styles is another and the use of an agregator to display the most recently updated blogs in the database. Thats why I’m updating the database… My only problem is that your 1637 different urls… all of which need to be checked and updated accordingly. Thats going to take up all of my day… oh well… better me then you right… - that’s not funny…

Pero nah… I’ll do this for you, me, or anyone as long as I have the time… What else could I possible be doing on a bright and sunny day other then updating our database? Oh which reminds me… Everytime I find out something new about what I’m doing to the site (tearing it apart and creating useless scripts) I want to blog about it but its rough because I get caught up into it. For example… something real easy but perhaps something that most of the dominican bloggers wouldn’t care about… the curl_init() function…

If I can accomplish updating the database within the next few hours without getting bored or any other distractions such as food, I’ll move onto creating the code to grab the url’s from the database, caching the feeds, sorting them by date and perhaps coming back to blog about it… If you have any questions or comments feel free to do so…

By the way… this wasn’t my idea to do this. I hate giving myself work to do… Especially if I’m in it alone and without any references to go by… This is fun but not that much fun. This is the equivilence of picking your brain with tweasers, followed by being teased by a model, driving 140mph in a BMW and winning the 800 meters at the State Track Finals after being told you would never make it to the finals.