Monday, June 16, 2008

A Labor of Love

There's a stack of reference books on the floor next to my desk, all of them have either Dreamweaver, PHP, MySQL or something similar in the title. I wanted to put my QSO log on my website http://www.kr4ro.com/ . I'm sure that there are easy ways to do this, but I don't know them, and I don't know anyone who could tell me. Hence the stack of reference books.


Actually, I had done it once before, but it was so long ago, I simply couldn't remember how I did it. I guess I could have checked the documentation I made after that labor of love, but, of course, I didn't document anything at all.


Well, it's done now, and I'm glad it's over. Now all I have to do is remember to update it on a regular basis. It's a nifty little program; you can see the entire log or you can see all the entries for a particular callsign. For instance, if you want to see if I've worked St. Brandon, you could enter 3B7C and the QSO would pop up. Yes I did work them and I got the card! It sits on my bulletin board in a place of honor along with the card from K8DAR a Boys and Girls Club station that I hear from time to time on twenty meters.
Well, go check it out. For my next "labor of love" maybe I'll build a database of all my QSL cards... yeah, that's the ticket...

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