Tags: | blog improvement | web programming |

2007-06-25 15:44

New Feature, More Confidence

I realized today that it's been quite a while since I worked on adding features to my blog software - I have gotten lazy because there is enough functionality for my blog posts to be displayed how I want them, but I still need to work on all the little extras that will make it even more functional. So, in an attempt to not be as lazy, especially when it comes to software that I actually care about and want to improve, I added a new feature today. You can now find "Next Post" and "Previous Post" links at the bottoms of my posts, for easier navigation through my posting time line. This was an easy thing to code, just more database querying in PHP to get URLs, and a test to see whether you are at either the beginning or the end of my posting time line. Hopefully I can get my brain kick started and I will be more willing to work on other features I am hoping to add, like a more robust "archive" section. I know it's not a big improvement, but it's definitely something that my blog needed. I feel like this whole project has given me confidence to write web software, and if the "client" needs the product in a few month, I plan to eventually build a shopping cart type system for an online jewelry store, more ambitious than blog software, but I feel like I definitely can do it now. Oh, and this is my 50th blog post! When I was writing the first post 50 seemed so far away, but now I feel as though I've just gotten started.

- Kevin
Kevin (at) Upcsite (dot) Net

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