I've been getting more excited recently about getting our media assets listed in a database to make searching and organization far more efficient. I recently made copies of the current hand written logs (backups work in the paper world too, you know) and noticed there are more than 400 entries, and that's just a partial accounting of all that has been recorded over the years. I think many good things will come from my putting forth an effort to get organized.
I also want to briefly revisit my decision to use MySQL and DaDaBIK to get my solution up and running. I had posted before about my difficulty in learning how to use MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc. Well, I still don't deal with the latter, preferring to use the DaDaBIK interface to revise records (or hand coding some of the changes, if necessary) as well as some of the GUI tools made availabe from the MySQL website. However, I found all the basics I need for SQL in the book "SQL In Easy Steps," published by Barnes and Noble (they have a series of books covering various tech topics). Now this is my kind of learning -- Really slow, getting the basics, building a little knowledge on top of what was just learned. Many tutorials just seem to move way to fast for me (and maybe I'm just slow). But it worked this way, so I'm running with it. It's amazing how fast I can pick up new things now that I have a good foundation.
Now, if only there were a "Get Rid of Feedback In Easy Steps" I'd be set.
I also want to briefly revisit my decision to use MySQL and DaDaBIK to get my solution up and running. I had posted before about my difficulty in learning how to use MySQL, phpMyAdmin, etc. Well, I still don't deal with the latter, preferring to use the DaDaBIK interface to revise records (or hand coding some of the changes, if necessary) as well as some of the GUI tools made availabe from the MySQL website. However, I found all the basics I need for SQL in the book "SQL In Easy Steps," published by Barnes and Noble (they have a series of books covering various tech topics). Now this is my kind of learning -- Really slow, getting the basics, building a little knowledge on top of what was just learned. Many tutorials just seem to move way to fast for me (and maybe I'm just slow). But it worked this way, so I'm running with it. It's amazing how fast I can pick up new things now that I have a good foundation.
Now, if only there were a "Get Rid of Feedback In Easy Steps" I'd be set.
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