adding more recent writing

Author: Bradley

backend/src/main/java/merhoo/backend/App.java

@@ -1,13 +1,66 @@
-package merhoo.backend;
+package edu.lehigh.cse216.mfs409.admin;
+
+import java.sql.Connection;
+import java.sql.DriverManager;
+import java.sql.SQLException;
+import java.util.Map;
 
 /**
- * Hello world!
- *
+ * App is our basic admin app.  For now, all it does is connect to the database
+ * and then disconnect
  */
-public class App 
-{
-    public static void main( String[] args )
-    {
-        System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
+public class App {
+    /**
+     * The main routine reads arguments from the environment and then uses those
+     * arguments to connect to the database.
+     */
+    public static void main(String[] argv) {
+        // get the Postgres configuration from the environment
+        Map<String, String> env = System.getenv();
+        String ip = env.get("POSTGRES_IP");
+        String port = env.get("POSTGRES_PORT");
+        String user = env.get("POSTGRES_USER");
+        String pass = env.get("POSTGRES_PASS");
+
+        // Some students find that they need the following lines
+        // *before DriverManager.getConnection* in order to get the postgres
+        // driver to load
+
+        // try {
+        //     Class.forName("org.postgresql.Driver");
+        // } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
+        //     System.out.println("Unable to find postgresql driver");
+        //     return;
+        // }
+
+        // conn is a connection to the database.  In this simple example, it is
+        // a local variable, though in a realistic program it might not be
+        Connection conn = null;
+
+        // Connect to the database or fail
+        System.out.print("Connecting to " + ip + ":" + port);
+        try {
+            // Open a connection, fail if we cannot get one
+            conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:postgresql://" + ip + ":" + port + "/", user, pass);
+            if (conn == null) {
+                System.out.println("\n\tError: DriverManager.getConnection() returned a null object");
+                return;
+            }
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            System.out.println("\n\tError: DriverManager.getConnection() threw a SQLException");
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return;
+        }
+        System.out.println(" ... successfully connected");
+
+        System.out.print("Disconnecting from database");
+        try {
+            conn.close();
+        } catch (SQLException e) {
+            System.out.println("\n\tError: close() threw a SQLException");
+            e.printStackTrace();
+            return;
+        }
+        System.out.println(" ...  connection successfully closed");
     }
 }

index.html

@@ -76,6 +76,23 @@ <h1>meredith hoo</h1>
   <section class="writing">
       <h1>Essays and writing</h1>
       <dl class="list">
+        <dt> bumps </dt>
+        <dd class="list__item">
+          <p> bumps left. bumps right. big hands </p>
+          <p> no consent. bumps. brush. coast. wrap. lope. rope. </p>
+          <p> no words. no exchange. just bumps and bumps </p>
+          <p> gropes and grabs </p>
+          <p> unwrapping my presents, tearing paper </p>
+        </dd>
+        <dt>Tangents on Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonzes' Being John Malkovich</dt>
+        <dd class="list__item">
+          <p>
+             This essay is written in a laissez faire style. Partially because 
+             I’m allowing myself to be stupid. What’s being smart if you never
+             had a chance to be stupid. Also because I am (with a french accent)
+             lazy.
+          </p>
+        </dd>
         <dt> Untitled Poem #4 </dt>
         <dd class="list__item ">
           <p>