Texas3006.com - Find the bug!

[koolaid]

Just from a usability standpoint I think you should split the "View Entry" link on the top of the page into "View All" and "Search" and then instead of having to jump through another page of selections for sort order and what not, just have sorting be controlled by clicking on the column headers.

It isn't entirely clear how to get a list of all the postings until you start clicking everything. Maybe even just making it "View Entries" so it is plural.

Great site, btw, thanks for putting it together.

[budroux2w]

Just from a usability standpoint I think you should split the "View Entry" link on the top of the page into "View All" and "Search" and then instead of having to jump through another page of selections for sort order and what not, just have sorting be controlled by clicking on the column headers.

It isn't entirely clear how to get a list of all the postings until you start clicking everything. Maybe even just making it "View Entries" so it is plural.

Great site, btw, thanks for putting it together.

x2

Easier to reach the search feature for sure.

[koolaid]

Very good idea!

Unfortunately though those changes would be fairly difficult to implement right now, and would require extensive modifications to view.php. That file is ridiculously complicated (almost 1000 lines of code), so those changes are probably going to come in a later version. I do like those ideas though, and will definitely implement them!

Understand. I write software for a living. Honestly, as much as it pains me to say it being a unix nerd and perl hacker at heart, using asp.net would make the entire process 100 times easier to develop and maintain just based on the grid controls alone because so much of the functionality for sites like that is already built in.

[koolaid]

I 100% agree whole-heartedly. I develop in both PHP and ASP.Net / C# for side work. ASP.Net is a very, very nice language. Double click on a button, put what's supposed to be done in the function for that button, and you're done. No need to code in if statements to capture every button that could possibly be clicked. Also, for the most part, there's no worrying about what order the code is executed in. It's super-nice, just too bad it requires a Windows server!

That is so true. So very very true.

[The Annoyed Man]

...just too bad it requires a Windows server!

There's the rub, isn't it? I'm a LAMP guy for that reason. I have a friend at church who is highly regarded in the .NET world, and he keeps telling me I ought to make the switch, but I just can't bring myself to kneel at the Windows altar.

[koolaid]

...just too bad it requires a Windows server!

There's the rub, isn't it? I'm a LAMP guy for that reason. I have a friend at church who is highly regarded in the .NET world, and he keeps telling me I ought to make the switch, but I just can't bring myself to kneel at the Windows altar.

It's worth getting a good working knowledge of. C# is actually a pretty nice language.

It isn't the be all end all, but I've been won over. It is nice for general development, but it really begins to shine on large multideveloper projects. It lets you focus a lot more on the architecture and design rather than repetitive and tedious tasks for things like working with services, web/windows forms, etc.