Wasted Potential...
I was looking at the Texas A&M RUF page today. It saddens me that they took away the site I'd built and put up an mSites piece of garbage.
I downloaded their former student "directory", which was a Microsoft Word document that someone uploaded without the *.doc extension, so I had to manually rename it in order to open it. The second line of the document reads: Updated November 18, 2005.
Why does this make me so sad? Only because my first venture into PHP was to write a directory application for this group that everyone--and I mean everyone in RUF at the time--used and loved, that stored all sorts of contact information (home and mobile phones, addresses, emails, IM screen names, etc.), allowed all the students to update their own data (meaning it kept current), and (among other things on that site) helped make the RUF website a near-daily hotspot for everyone in RUF at the time. Hell, three separate campus ministers from other universities mentioned that they envied it.
I bet nobody looks at that site anymore.
I wish I still had that codebase; I'm pretty sure it's gone now.
Posted by Luke at 11:39 p.m.
Oh wow, yours was a lot better. Ahh, I miss RUF Summer Conference though. It starts next week. I'm not sure what I enjoyed more, the week there or the road trip with friends. Both were pretty good.
Posted by Chris on 2008.05.06 at 7:38 a.m.
I don't what yours looked like, but this one looks pretty boring.
Haha, I liked Summer Conference better than the car ride because Nathan pretty head butted (sp?) me the whole way.
Posted by Wanda Harbison on 2008.05.06 at 10:32 p.m.
Wow, ok so I kinda left out two words in my last post. Guess I forgot how to type. :)
Oh, you don't have an edit option on this blog.
Posted by Wanda Harbison on 2008.05.07 at 10:22 a.m.
Coming soon.
Posted by Luke on 2008.05.07 at 11:31 a.m.
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