The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I just finished fixing a few bugs. I have the friends viewer working, just trying to figure out how to let users access it and add friends.

For an example,
http://www.justjournal.com/users/laffer1/friends

I just found the best Mysql admin program ever... its even better than php my admin.

Its called mysql 4x manager and its a Mac OS X exclusive app. I love it. I think I will buy a copy when I can.. its only 50 bucks. They have another product that works with ms sql, oracle, sybase and db2 as well.

It took me a minute to set it up where i could use it. See I don't allow connections to my database from the outside (only loopback) for security reasons. I got clever and setup a SSH tunnel to my server bound to the loopback on that end and this end. Worked like a charm.. plus everything I do is encrypted that way. If i could get the tunnel to stay up without timing out, i would do that for email also. I'd love it for ftp too. Come to think of it.. i should be able to do it for ftp . I think I tried once and had trouble with the data returning.. i'll think about it some more.

Oh and in case anyone is wondering I am working on JustJournal.com this weekend. I plan on having the friends system and basic preferences up by next weekend at the latest. Then I will work on comments and private entries.