Finally got around to starting this. I had been hemming and hawing about designing the page for recording weight entries, trying to decide on how to go about it by using jQuery on a single page, with no postbacks to the server. Eventually I simply made the decision to forge ahead with a solution using ASP.NET MVC’s scaffolding. It would result in a few pages for the typical CRUD database operations, but at least I’d have something up and running.
Really glad I did it. At least I’m moving forward– I’ve already discovered a few ommisions from my database schema, even as simple as it is– it really only has one table at this point! I’ve also got a start on graphing progress of weight entries, and discovered that by default the MVC charting helper seems pretty slow. Either I need another solution that is faster, or I need to optimize the helper for my situation, if that’s even possible.
I may have created a series of pages that will wind up being thrown on the trash heap before it ever winds up on a public site, but at least I’ve got it started. Sometimes, it seems, it’s simply more important to take a step– even if it’s in the wrong direction– just to get yourself moving.
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