Last time, I was hoping to complete and load the Family Portal on the Web site in February, and, furthermore, show you the Friends Blogs Portal in operation on this 5th commemoration. That hope has evaporated and I am currently standing at the same point as I stood at the end of February, which was far from loading the Family Portal. What happened?
Well, at the end of February, our Web Hosting Service stopped running SQL 2000 and transferred all your data to SQL 2008R. As a result, I had to urgently install SQL 2008R Express on my computer and transfer all the Portal data from SQL 2005 to the new Database. This took almost a month, including the learning curb for the new version. Then, I had to spend two months to create the same portal application (now named “timeo”) as the one running on SQL 2005 (named TKY Portal). This was both a curse and a blessing. On one hand, my time schedule has been set back for three months. On the other hand, I learned a lot about this Portal’s error prone ASP application coding and got your blog data base on the same SQL version as the Portal database.
Having found out how error-prone the Portal’s ASP coding is and expecting the learning curve that yet to go through the possible error-prone (compiler continues to show debugging error) JavaScript Portal coding, my future plan is to aim at loading the family portal on your birthday in November. In order to achieve this goal, my plan is as follows:
June-July = Setup my portal page layout (ASP set-up coding study, Widget JavaScript Study, Study potential sites such as Face Book, Flicker, Twitter etc)
August–September = Setup timeo sub-site including Coty blog (timeo database arrangement, converting ASP 2000 to ASP 2008 and Visual Basic to C#)
October = Setup family portal page layouts for November loading on the Web hosting service
I hope I can meat this plan this time.
My Love Coty! Continuing from the last post, this time, I am attaching your pictures taken in the winter of 2002. You really liked winter and snow. When the ground was covered with white snow, you would jump out, ran and relax in the snow. Here are two pictures relaxing on the snow and four pictures running around in the Liberty Park, although the World Trade Center was gone. The other one was on the occasion when Mrs. Nakano visited us. We have not heard from her for sometime and wonder how she is doing in Japan.