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2653542, RE: what's the coding language?
Posted by Nodima, Wed Jan-25-12 08:54 PM
I don't know anything about coding. I want the third list in my sig (and the 1,500+ reviews that fuel it, and the 15-20+ lists that spawn from it) to be able to auto-update themselves whenever I publish a review, so all I have to do is write everything down and then all the math is done for me. Right now my process, unless I'm doing a review outside of rap:

1. Write review/score tracks/score album
2. Add base scores and leaner scores on calc, get % scores for each then find average /5
3. Open Run That Shit, find where songs + album = on list, edit entry and submit
4. Open Geek Down, find artist, add new album to entry, calc new average, adjust rank if necessary
5. Open relevant yearly list, find where songs + album = on list, edit entry and submit

It takes about five minutes to do, which isn't too bad, but the process of having to go back and edit all those lists if I should ever change my mind about something is pretty unattractive. You can see on Run That Shit that I update new entries FAR more often than changes. If I could open up an edit page on an album, change a few songs scores if I've changed my mind on them, and have everything sourced from that review page edit and rearrange itself without my input that'd make me so happy.

I asked around a few different places IRL and online but nobody could give me any leads, so a very distant friend of mine that likes to challenge himself took it on, but I hear from him maybe every two months and I've only seen a preview of the layout so far. He's never said if he's figured out how to code that, and since he's freelancing and just graduated I'm really not trying to pressure him to do a favor for me considering the first time we met was he found out I was hooking up with his best friend in school who he was obsessed with, lol.

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