Day 2, 2008

Hello there.

Today I woke up from a restless night where I ate and ate and saw T.V. and dogs barked and all. I went up fresh to work to do a intensive day of websurfing with my colleague so we could find things to include in the 2008 version of our kindergarten software. The latest version is from 2002, still in VB6. Yuck.
We had lots of laughs for bugs in other softwares, took some ideas forward and are beginning sketching the new application. In VS2008 oh yeah.

I am now reformulating my own project. I will begin by basing it in the latest client website I created in December, and then:
- Rebuild the database from scratch, for multilingual purposes
- Move all existing code from .aspx back to classes structures
- Create visual parts that call the class structures, so I can better place them on page
- Integrate those database-driven visual elements in a css/html template I already got
- Rebuild the backoffice part to get in sync with the new stuff
And from then on:
- Make the code-behind migrate to webservices, to be available to many sites at once
- Etc.

Tonight I can't code because I'm going out with a couple friends, I haven't seen them since last year lol.

Bye!

A little more thinking

Hello.

Today I went helping my girl with a PowerPoint presentation for her school. It wasn't hard to do, but managed to finish in the nick of time before her laptop went battery dead.
Tomorrow I'll return to my home away from home. I will get the paid room another month and do a course on teaching classes. I mean, teaching how to teach. Good for resumé.

Meanwhile I'm evaluating some tools, such as Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2005 or Microsoft Expression Web. Frankly, apart some background programming, the two are quite similar at first sight.

My project is shaping, yesterday I thought of doing something in the ways of a portal with access to various areas, each with it's own peculiarities but everyone sharing the same code, only differing data and presentation. In the first step it's also easier to use the same domain name that to distribute for various.

Also while seeing some tools, my mind wanders to "what if I don't do programming but instead pick a ready made system with hundreds of addons like DotNetNuke or OSCommerce?".
I'm drowning in thoughts...