Knit Project Completed

I finished the Knit Project application in time for xmas. My girlfriend loved it and said it was everything she needed. I need to find some cheap hosting so that I can share the program with the world. Cheap hosting would probably come with a database and I'll probably end up modifying the program to use it.

That's okay though. The point is to keep things simple for as long as possible. If I have to revert on a decision I made previously, it doesn't mean I made the wrong decision. Things are always in a flux and the right decision now isn't necessarily the right decision in the future. If I would have tried to use a database the first time around, I probably wouldn't have been able to complete the program on time. So not using the database was the right decision even if I add one in the future.


Thinking about the flash card program. I came across an idea. I'll need a way to store the flash cards on the internet, but I won't necessarily have a database. So I wonder if I could pull the information from my blog. The blog supports ATOM feeds. In theory I could just tag posts with the flashcard data, and the program could just get pull form the ATOM feed. I'm not so sure blogger would approve of it. But if it's only a few posts with just me and my friends, I don't see the problem.