Today the Laurabelle learned how to do SQL joins. I probably shouldn't be quite so happy about this, but it's so darn cool that I'm really excited. I could have eliminated so much icky PHP if I had known how to do them last summer when I did my CD database. I was talking about redoing it, and Kevin suggested I do a combined CD/book/etc. database (well actually he said "you know that in the end you'll wish you did it that way in the first place"). I'm not sure what such a database would look like, because CDs are already complicated enough, but I dunno, we'll see. I do have a kind of inevitable feeling about this.
I might even add the wishlist function into it, so that I can enter stuff that I want, and then stuff that gets bought for me will automagically join the "fold." I know, there are kinks to be worked out, but my brain is already percolating.
And by the way, LIS 540 is gosh golly fun.