TMD Update

I spent a bit more time working on the Movieland Directory version 2.0 last night. A few minutes only. I thought it was interesting that after making my last post about my work on the site, Tony told me that the unique visits went up. Just for your information, the work I'm doing now for the new version is not on our web host. I'm initially doing all the work on a ColdFusion Developer web server running on my PC at home. So, the link above will take you to the live production version of the Movieland Directory, not to the new version 2.0 version.

There will be a beta at some point. But it is way too early right now to be thinking of that. Sadly, I can't work on it "full time." And even if I could, I would probably be too restless to do so.

Inching forward on the Movieland Directory 2.0

I spent maybe 15 minutes working on version 2.0 of TMD last night. I got quite abit done for 15 minutes of work. If I would just put in some real time on this project, I might be done by now and people might be awe-struck at how cool it is!

Movieland Directory Coding

Spent some more time working on new version of the Movieland Directory last night. I'm still trying to figure out some navigation issues with the new design. I have a desire for the BACK and FORWARD browser buttons to work properly, coupled with the code not getting too complicated!

A day or two ago my code had seperate headers and footers on each page that is designed to be search engine friendly. Not too efficient! Last night I created ColdFusion functions to generate these. I've added them to two of the pages. I have a few more to do. The footer includes a link that can be clicked to validate the HTML on the page. I plan on posting these pages in an obscure directory on our web host for testing. This testing isn't really even the main functionality of the new site. The main point here is that:

• The HTML is properly formed.
• The HTML and content is search engine friendly.

After this part is done, the next things I want to do are:

• Have the initial navigation start code will be added.
• Add javascript code that loads initial user interface.
• Change style sheets to hide Raw HTML (which I mention above). This HTML and it's content is going to be for the benefit of search engines only. The content will describe in a textual way what the actual content is in the Real interface!

Movieland Directory Update

Our web host found some more problems that had slipped my notice for the production environment of the Movieland Directory. I got those problems fixed yesterday.

Also spent time working on the new improved version of the Movieland Directory. Not alot of time, but some time.

I tried getting Visual Interdev 6 to work with IE7 on my PC at home but to no avail. I wish that I had not been so quick to install IE7.

Weekend Update from Work

Here I am sitting at my desk at work on Saturday. The reason for this? I have a deadline coming up on Wednesday for my project. This sucker really has snuck up on me! It's sure quiet here on a Saturday afternoon!

In other news, I discovered last night that I forgot to fix the save article routine to handle mySQL on the Movieland Directory. I fixed that last night, and added the picture of E.J. Fleming sitting in Jean Harlow's car to the page about E.J. I think it looks great! What do you think?

E.J. In Jean Harlow's Car

E.J. Fleming sitting in Jean Harlow's car

Picture from Tony.

Movieland Directory Performance

Well, since converting to mySQL for the Movieland Directory, the site has been much better behaved and generally providing zippier performance than before. That is a good thing!

Movieland Directory now using mySQL

Just wanted to mention that Friday night I got the Movieland Directory website weaned off of Microsoft Access and it is now using mySQL! Hopefully this will eliminate some of the errors we were getting. I did a bit of learning some of the particulars of mySQL's syntax.

TMD: Problems with the Old, Potential with the New

The technical problems with the Movieland Directory site continue. Tony called me at home last night with some issues. Fortunately, these were easy to fix and I fixed them while I was on the phone. Tony told me that the site was acting up this morning and wondered if I had changed anything since last night. The answer was "No."

It seems ever since Tony saved the database in the later version of Access we have had these problems. Part of me wants to write a program that converts the database back to the old version of Access and see if that clears things up.

There is still the idea of converting the Access database to MySQL. There are issues with this right now. Tony has a few thoughts on this that might tide us over for now.

Ultimately, I'm working on a revised Movieland Directory site. Adminstrators would have full editing capabilities, so mySQL will be used for sure (no need to edit stuff off-line in Access and reload the database). The new site will be very Web 2.0. I've got to finish this thing! It rocks! As far as how the new site works for the user, I don't think there's anything on the Internet yet like it.

I'm working on the design on my PC at home using ColdFusion MX's Developer Edition. Initially the database will be in Access to make design easier. Once I have everything working great, I will convert the database into MySQL. Then upload everything to a sub directory for Tony to check out. When Tony sees it he will be blown away and urgently desire for me to put it into production for all to see!

I have a certain nerdy pride about the whole thing, but for now I need to keep my nerdy revelations under wraps (no details)!

Movieland Directory Issues

More record locking issues on the Movieland Directory web site.

Sigh!

Looks like I seriously need to convert the Access database that is behind the site into a mySQL database.

I have been given a document on the steps that I need to follow in order to do this. I have all the tools needed on my PC at home (including MS Access). Tonight I need to work on this!!

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

Chomer.com. This site is "in shambles." At least in my estimation! Who is the bum who is responsible for this thing? Er, ah, well... That would be me wouldn't it... hmmm....

I have to say that many months went by without me doing one blessed thing on the site. All my evening hours would go to working on my co-worker's site the Movieland Directory, if that at all. I just wanted to say though that in the last 2 or 3 weeks I have made some changes to my site!
Amazing!
The site?
No!
That I made changes! :P

I think my main problem with Chomer.com is that my goals are too lofty. I want to cover too many things. I'm interested in too may things! That isn't a good enough excuse. Robert Scoble has his blog, and about a bazillion other things going at the same time. And he does it well. Of course that's his full time job! My full time job is writing SFA intranet web sites or any other internal Sales Force Automation things they want me to build. When I get home many times I'm sick of building web pages, scripts, software, etc. Do you get the feeling that I am just coming up with excuses?

I fall down, get back up, dust myself off, and begin working on my site again. I look at what it might become someday. It's is my techy playground for now, nobody's counting on it, it is definitely not a cash cow for me, but it's my little spot on the web. Please stop by occasionally and check it out. And please be patient with me and my site and don't write me off.