overt.org

I’ve recently started running more often, and I wanted to keep track of my mileage, etc. So, I went looking for a good software package that could keep track of everything and make pretty graphs, but all I could find were many websites that offered the service for free by becoming a member.

I’m nervous about trusting my data to a third party system, so I started thinking I would just build a little database to keep track of this stuff. I want to stay platform neutral, so I decided that I might as well make the thing a web-accessible database.

Writing this thing in ColdFusion would be easy, but I’m trying to learn Java to prepare for a summer internship as a Java developer, so I’m going to try to implement it as a Java servlet or something. I’ll likely open a project at sourceforge.net. More news to follow.

Ship of Fools has recently passed two milestones: 10 years of CPU time and our second member with over a year of CPU time logged.

I’ve updated the personal section of overt with my spring 2001 schedule.

Well, we did the Puzzlehunt thing. What a ride. You can see all of the pictures and puzzles at the Puzzlehunt site.

Contrary to the way things must seem, overt.org is alive and kicking! We got back from MS, started another busy semester at UT, and now I’m focusing web-development efforts on the upcoming UT Puzzlehunt.