Flashes of Panic

I am spending today, and probably large sections of the next week, whipping together a site to support a book which is going to the printers “any week now.” It’s a final exam, of sorts; a chance to take the content management system I’ve shepherded through two previous sites and write a sharper, cleaner version using what I learned from those earlier ones.

Content management is a very basic level of database work, with just a few relationships and a lot of CRUD: the database acronym for Create, Read, Update, Delete.

If only things were so simple outside the database. There’s a lot of Update and Delete going on in non-work, but none of the operations are simple, and there seem to be a lot of them going on at once.

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