DataWebTect

Nearing close.

• Things are progressing well
• Navigation links are finalized
• Identified a requirement for a new page.
• Another couple of days and it should be in beta
• Already identified new features for the next release.

Another fruitful day to the creation.

• Login information propagated to the pages, if not logged in then redirected to the home page.
• Logout feature enabled.
• Work on drop down lists and payment interface.
• Personal finance weblog asks why you are not in Alaska to reap the benefits of no state sales and no state income tax and also get dividend paid by the state.

I was seriously stuck with couple of problems.

• However, the application is almost ready
• Payment interface and field validation to be completed
• Session information need to be passed on
• Used the standard php format to separate the pages to header,body and footer
• Now I can change the skin as I need to
• The error was “Headers already sent blah blah blah”
• Scratched my head and spent lot of hours debugging and finally it turns out that the parameters were not passed on to the next page as well as some echo’s need to be removed.
• Whenever you use “header” to redirect the page in php make sure you pass all the parameters that are accessed in the next page with GET
• Next thing is to make sure that there is no echo before the header which will give the error.

The weekend is really good.

• Almost all pages are complete.
• Navigation and links are being validated.
• Coming across really weird errors when moving between the pages.
• Next steps to complete the navigation links and the layout
• Plan to deploy for testing by next weekend
• Search engine optimization to be done after that
• Go live in 4/28-4/29 - Date is looking good at this time.

Think like I am superstitious as I intentionally did not post on Friday the 13th.

• Completed the landing pages for both the groups.
• It is working as I expected.
• My wife volunteered for the QA of the site - saves me $$$
• Finalize the navigation and menu bars
• Integrate the login information to all the pages
• Finally the payment integration and go live.
• Talk of the town - Google buys doubleclick for $1.3 billion 

Life is good…

• Completed the Read/view pages for both the type of functionalities
• Now the CRU of CRUD completed
• Thinking where to put the Delete options
• Next need to add the links of the pages and integrate them.
• Taylor clarifies how the Grand canyon walk is a ripoff.
• Paul thinks Microsoft is dead.

The eleventh day, I forgot about blogging and remembered at the end of the day.

• Update page for another functional segment completed.
• Thinking about the web design aspect
• I am not a good designer and wanted some cheap designers
• Not only the application is to be completed but with minimum cost.
• Web 2.0 features would be good.
• Think more….

Moving on…

• Completed coding of the Update pages for one segment
• C and U of CRUD completed so far
• Started thinking about the payment integration
• Pay Pal seems to be cheapest with the Web Site Standard
  
• Paypal charges 1.9% to 2.9% + $0.30 USD depending on the volume
• Other players are little bit costly.
• Need to think about including the same in the subscription charges.

The journey continues

• Pagination implemented in Searches
• Thinking through the next steps
• Currently reading E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company

This weekend was great.

• File upload/download functionality completed
• Login page completed with the captcha test
• One thing to learn is as you move on you find new pages that are absolutely essential.
• CRUD - Create completed
• Basic searches are complete but Read pages to be developed
• Update and Delete functionality to be added
• Need to think about creating any staging area for the storage before the functionality is finalized.