Bricks on the Brain: Rail
I’ve been sitting on this one for awhile… Speaking with Jake McKee, I offered to bring “Bricks on the Brain” back from the dead. The original web-site was written in ColdFusion… a language I’m not familiar with, but I have enough experience with PHP and other programming language, it wasn’t hard to figure out how it works. I’ve decided to tackle a smaller sub web-site called Bricks on the Brain: Rail, that features some of Jake’s 9V train creations with instructions. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Over the next few weeks/months, I’ll try to bring back Bricks on the Brain (BotB). I need to convert the database, rebuild the page templates, then at some point, add a way to submit new content… seems like an easy task, but I’m cleaning the HTML up in the process, simplifying the data stored, and trying to maintain the integrity of the web-site, whilst looking down the road on how to better integrate it with BrickBuildr.
I have a few problems to consider… There are links (URLs) in the database to locations that are now defunct; which is not surprising considering the nature of the web and the age of BotB. Second, BotB maintained a user list and BrickBuildr has a separate/different user list. I could start over from scratch, but there are some good information already contained in the old BotB database that I don’t want to loose… Once I merge the two user lists, I’ll need to write some web-pages to add/modify/delete creations from BotB.
Cool, I always liked BotB