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It’s that time of year again. That’s right, next Friday and Saturday is the IHSA Girls State Gymnastics Meet at PHS. For the past two weeks I’ve been racking my brain over the website for the meet. You see, PHS has had a reputation for the last few years of publishing the scores to the web as the judges give them to the gymnasts. In fact, we are so up to date with the scores that the IHSA website links to us during the meet. It is usually not until an hour or two after the nights end that the IHSA receives the official scores from the event’s scorers. In an attempt to outdo my performance from last year, I have been coding the site for this year so that I just have to enter data, and not have to worry about manually sort or format the rows of scores on the pages. My goal is to have a database-driven site by Wednesday of next week, just two days before the preliminaries. If I can’t achieve that, I’ll have to settle for my JavaScript arrays. It’s been such a long time since I’ve really coded anything in JavaScript, since I’ve been doing a lot of VBScript in ASP for several pages on the site. Once I got back into the groove of coding with a not-so-awful language, I just keep going and going. Hell, it’s 12:36 as I type this, and I have to be up for work in about 5 hours! I just finished some coding on a few of the pages, and I think it’s to a point that satisfies me until I can start setting up a database. Blah! My brain feels like mush. Time to go to sleep, but first, I must check out the forum!