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… But I don’t know what it’s going to be like when I get there.
My adventure towards editing in Version 2 of Behold is a bit like the New Horizon’s mission to Pluto. They set off 9 years ago and knew where they were going. They knew how they’d get there. They even knew what they were going to do when they got there. But they didn’t know what they’d find when they got there.
So Behold is well on its way to getting its own database so that it will have a place to save the edits you add to it. I know that this editing is going to be something special. I just don’t know exactly what it will look like yet. My picture of it is about the same as the image of Pluto above, which was the best picture we had of it until last week.
As I get closer to the goal, ideas will expand and the picture will get clearer.
Even my last blog post, just 62 hours ago, talked about setting up a main database table that would generalize all the tables. Well, two days of working on the tables led to realizations that a generalized table will not work out, and the standard method of normalizing tables for INDI, FAM, SOUR, OBJ, etc., will do after all.
Also the realization that I must change just one thing at a time, ensure it can work, and then get it working before going on to the next is essential. Behold must always be a working system. At this point, wholesale changes will not work. The mission is set. Pluto is in our sites. Let’s get there.
Pluto nearly fills the frame in this image from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface. (Photo: NASA/APL/SwRI)
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