{"id":222,"date":"2012-06-01T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/bricks-on-the-brain-rail\/"},"modified":"2018-04-08T20:05:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T01:05:25","slug":"bricks-on-the-brain-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/01\/bricks-on-the-brain-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"Bricks on the Brain: Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/botbrail\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-CAA_kRPJT1o\/T8jIsEPAMBI\/AAAAAAAAAus\/9Cj7X_Oydu0\/s320\/botbrail.tiff\" width=\"320\" height=\"73\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on this one for awhile&#8230; Speaking with Jake McKee, I offered to bring &#8220;Bricks on the Brain&#8221; back from the dead. \u00a0The\u00a0original\u00a0web-site was written in ColdFusion&#8230; a language I&#8217;m not familiar with, but I have enough experience with PHP and other programming language, it wasn&#8217;t hard to figure out how it works. \u00a0I&#8217;ve decided to tackle a smaller sub web-site called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/botbrail\/\">Bricks on the Brain: Rail<\/a>, that features some of Jake&#8217;s 9V train creations with instructions. \u00a0Check it out and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few weeks\/months, I&#8217;ll try to bring back Bricks on the Brain (BotB). \u00a0I need to convert the database, rebuild the page templates, then at some point, add a way to submit new content&#8230; seems like an easy task, but I&#8217;m cleaning the HTML up in the process, simplifying the data stored, and trying to maintain the\u00a0integrity\u00a0of the web-site, whilst looking down the road on how to better integrate it with BrickBuildr.<\/p>\n<p>I have a few problems to consider&#8230; There are links (URLs) in the database to locations that are now defunct; which is not surprising considering the nature of the web and the age of BotB. \u00a0Second, BotB maintained a user list and BrickBuildr has a separate\/different user list. \u00a0I could start over from scratch, but there are some good information already contained in the old BotB database that I don&#8217;t want to loose&#8230; Once I merge the two user lists, I&#8217;ll need to write some web-pages to add\/modify\/delete creations from BotB.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sitting on this one for awhile&#8230; Speaking with Jake McKee, I offered to bring &#8220;Bricks on the Brain&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[113,110,5,112,10,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-9v","category-bricks-on-the-brain","category-community","category-jake-mckee","category-lego","category-train"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/home-botbrail.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-3A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1465,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/1465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}