new toys
So I finally got my PowerBook back. I bought a 1GHz Titanium back in august and due to a comedy of errors it took two months for it to come back from the repair center. It’s cool and all but my Airport card doesn’t work. And I was like a day away fromg etting a new machine. Oh well. Getting it going was pretty painless, though. TinkerTool + Growl + Quicksilver rock your boxors.
A project at work is going to lead me into my first forays into AJAX development. Needless to say the fact that I need to interface my project with Campus Standard Database(tm) means that without using AJAX certain choosy elements would be horrific to use. (It’s an inventory thing, you need to choose the building/room and the list of such in the Campus Standard Diddlybobber is like 1300 entries long.) So now I’m looking into which frameworks I want to use for the thing. There are a few frontrunners at the moment. AJAX still doesn’t make a whole lot of sense on the implementation level, though; that’s got more to do with my general lack of understanding of what JavaScript and the DOM can do for me.