EngineeredTheology

A little over a year ago I made a database to contain some of my bible notes and began transferring a lot of what was in my bible into that database. This had three problems. The first was that a lot of the notes I had in my bible were pretty old, and my viewpoint has changed quite a bit since then. Secondly, I have a lot of notes, and transferring them all over was taking forever. Thirdly, the page I wrote made it difficult because it separated the adding of a note from the verses and there was no real way to edit them.

I decided to add all the notes I had because there still might be something in those old notes that is interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t even get through the Pentateuch because of problem #2, which is making the determination that the database will just have new notes. For the last problem, I spent some time improving things. Wanted something a little more dynamic, so I taught myself AJAX (which really just meant improving my JavaScript). Now, the interface to the database is much better and significantly easier to use – so adding a note to a verse just involves clicking on the verse and selecting the right menu, editing the note is done with a double click.