Epidiascope

So, surprise surprise, I haven’t written anything in a while…

That tended to happen with the last blog I had too, but I intend to prevent it from happening. Hit me if you see me and I haven’t written anything in a month, alright? In other news, I finally got around to getting facebook to fix my account. I’ll spare you the rant on their stupid “security” measure requiring you to email them from the primary email address on the account before they reset the password.

So it is confirmed. Facebook = Evil.

Most of you are already aware: I’ve been involved with the creation of a business as of late. It’s a c-corporation, and we filed the articles of incorporation last Friday. Those are an interesting construct… a set of papers which create a new legal entity. Something like having a baby, and a relief to be done with the creation stage. Certainly how Gabriel and I feel about it, now that it’s gone off to the state to have their lawyers look over it. Multiple classes of stock mean that they can’t process it same-day, so we wait.

In the mean time, we’re going to be finalizing plans for business insurance, worker’s comp, and all the various and sundry business permits. As for our actual line of business? We’ll do a bit of everything — anything strikes our fancy or might be profitable.

Which brings me back to my other favorite thing to do in the whole world… re-invent the wheel! Except this time, we have at least hit upon a wheel which will roll in the appropriate direction. We’ve sketched out the rough draft of our newest project, an Inventory Management and Point of Sale system targeted at medium to small businesses (designed to be useful for our own, of course). Access is through the web, so most platforms (including mobile) will be supported. Backend is the LAMP stack. The key design goals are extensibility and modularity. Users can add new modules with a template file and a simple php framework for data handling. We’ve got most of the database design in place, and are now moving towards sketching in the code.