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I understand that many do not read my blog but for those that do, I wanted to explain where I have been for the past couple weeks (specifically this pertains to phpwcms and all the fine folks at the forums there who I have had little time to speak to because of the following). Well, it all started at the beginning of the semester in a class I am taking on databases. This is an intro course so the content was really meant as a refresher and more formal learning of the subject. This course is also an IST course which means that group work is a crucial component. The end result of this class is to be an expert DBA and create a large scale database driven website, similar to sites such as ebay, amazon, and wine.com. This project has been quite a task. I have spoke of the issues with the server I have had during the course of this project. And my group members were not always the most helpful. This truly was not their fault and probably more of my own because I set high standards for writing code and they had no experience with php making the web site and largest part pretty much all my own doing.

With that in mind, my group members really did the best they could to learn and to contribute to this area. They would write code based on templates I gave them and for the most part they were helpful the parts they did. The reason I say this is because if they read my blog I would hate to give them the impression that I did not appreciate their hard work and dedication to the project as well as dealing with me not always being the most talkative and helpful group member. A special thanks go to them who really did help even though they may not have written much code. Thanks!

Anyway, so we can see this was a big project... We chose to create an ebay site because it contained enough meat to really show off some serious db skillz. Really everything went very well with the project and there is not much to say. The server didn't work all the time. I did most of the php side of things and that is that. In any sense it is done and I can get back to thinking about other classes such as my calculus class which has been desparately needing my attention. This summer is the summer for phpwcms so look out.

If you want to check out my monstronsity of a project you can check it out here. Enjoy!