So, the blogging has slowed a bit, but that’s a good thing. Yes, Episode IV of my “Reviving your old PC” series is in progress and on its way. You gotta wait for quality, folks.<\/p>\n
But last night I started and interesting new project that took over my brain and had me up most of the night. It’s like this…
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We have a weekly Bible study meeting at the house; a regular part of this event is the singing of a few hymns and praise songs, which I generally lead. I have a good library of such songs built of from years of participating in praise bands and so forth, but I don’t have lyrics to pass out for the rest of the group.<\/p>\n
So for a while, I’ve been sticking to short, simple songs that most people seem to know the words to. I’ve been meaning to make song sheets for everyone, but it’s such a wasteful and messy approach to getting lyrics to everyone — as soon as you make a sheet, you want to sing songs that aren’t on it, then you make more, and more; before you know it, you have a 30-page booklet with songs in no particular order.<\/p>\n
Being a techy kind of guy, I naturally turned to my computer for a more elegant solution. I spent some time trying to get lyricue<\/a> to work with my laptop and TV set (which awesomely has a VGA input), but I couldn’t get it to work. I just ended up with black screens. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n As I was tinkering with it last night, it occurred to me that as part of my lyricue installation I had a whopping big database<\/a> of songs in MySQL. And here am I, a LAMP developer. So why not hack together a little CRUD<\/a> application in PHP to access this database and display its data nicely in a browser window? Besides, I’ve been learning jquery lately and this gave me the excuse to flex those new skills a little.<\/p>\n So, hours of obsessive hacking later, I have a functional little web-app full of javascript\/CSS3 niceties which I hope to try out tonight. And when I get a chance, I’ll toss it up on github for whoever wants to fiddle with the spaghetti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, the blogging has slowed a bit, but that’s a good thing. Yes, Episode IV of my “Reviving your old PC” series is in progress and on its way. You gotta wait for quality, folks. But last night I started and interesting new project that took over my brain and had me up most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,7,5],"tags":[30,29,28],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-javascript","tag-lamp","tag-programming-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}