I’m putting together a little website, for car lovers: www.mypersonalplates.com. It’s simple, really- just lets you share your personalized licence plate with the world, get ideas of other plates etc. Part of that involves having people choose the make and model of their car. I originally let folks type in your make/model but anyone who programs knows that’s a downright terrible idea. why? because of course you worry about spellings, and short versions and.. and.. if you ever want to use the data in a usable way you just can’t.
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Well, after 4 hours give or take, my first MVC based Kahona framework site is up and mostly sort of running: http://www.mypersonalplates.com. You can view all the plates in the site, and add your own. It was a design and coding exercise to force me to learn Kahona for my buddy Peter’s sake. He’s already got some practice with Kahona and I’m trying to catch up for a future project collaboration.

To Do:

• Filters for plates
• Details of each plate available
• Add complete make / model db and have the model list update based on make selected
• Check for duplicate State/Plate on submission

Not bad really for a nights work.