DaisyBLueButton.com

DaisyBLueButton.com Resurrected! Well, who would have known? I have never expected that I would get the chance to work on that site again. My dear baby that I worked my heart and soul for, for my CS3266 project. I don't think anyone really know how much the project meant for me. It was weird because initially I dreaded the module. I attended the lecture in my 2nd year and Dr.Hui was kinda demoralizing me, so I took a risk. I delayed taking the module for a whole year, even though in my 2nd year, there were so many kind people who would helped me a lot if I were to be in trouble. I just thought I wasn't ready and I was really scared. In my final semester, it couldn't be delayed anymore, so I gave in and I just prayed a lot There was never a doubt about what to sell. I wanted to sell flowers, period! I really had a great time browsing for pictures and I guess because it was something that I really like, I really enjoyed doing it. Really!!! People may argue that I was too stressed out about it, but I really like doing the project. The satisfaction was great. I can only named a few modules which really gave a good impression to me when I was in NUS, and cs3266 was one of them. Even Dr.Hui turned out to be quite a nice person, but I still would prefer to be under his radar during tutorial There were some funny moments during the tutorials. In a way, they helped to make the whole experience fun

Anyway, about DaisyBLueButton. Earlier this week, a friend needed help with setting up an online store using ASP and naturally I was bound to give help (for the obvious reason: I had DaisyBLueButton.com). This person told me about this 4 days before he supposed to hand in the site! Honestly I thought I wouldn't be able to make it. I didn't even know if my computer could pull it through. Thank God that I managed to install IIS in my computer. I'm so proud of my laptop He's one tough laptop Thank you God Then the next major problem was migrating my database, which basically was gone since it was hosted by the school Oracle. So it was quite a nerve-wrecking and tiring and dizzying experience to build my database again using Microsoft Access (mind you, I am not smart). One of the stupid thing that I did, doing the project back in NUS was that I didn't really pay much attention to the words that I used. Quite a number of my column names are reserved keywords in access, so I was having quite a headache and perhaps a heart attack (a little hyperbole here) when I was working on the access database. Thank God that I could still used the same column names, I just had to do some little modifications in my queries. Event though I didn't like the stress, it's cool that I was learning something new There were a lot other problems, such as XP having restriction to write to the database (if not through the database directly), Microsoft Access restriction, inconsistency in display, and my session problem (which Teddy amazingly managed to solve). I was so amazed with Teddy. One because he was actually willing to help me again despite being busy and two of course because of his brain and perhaps amazing eyes. He managed to spot that 1 line that caused so much problem, the session bug that made me so sad. It didn't cause problem last year and I don't know why now it's giving me such a hard time. A lot of other adjustments had to be made. New bugs were found. They had been lying dormant for a year, well basically it's because I was too proud of myself. I thought my site was bullet-proof but it's not. There were major loop holes in my flow of the whole thing *sigH* They made me so sad. In the end, within that 4 days (well less than 4 days I guess, I couldn't dedicate my 24 hours/day to do this) I managed to resurrect my dear DaisyBLueButton.com on time. Through all the stress, the dizziness. I was even having difficulty breathing on Tuesday night. By the way, my JavaScript to check the credit card number validity actually works. It was so cool! I couldn't really test it back then but I tried this time around with real credit card numbers and it worked I am proud of myself. I want to thank God for this opportunity that I seriously wanted to reject in the first place. I accepted the task because I remembered the so-many friends who didn't forsake me when I needed their help. Even in this week, God still gave me Teddy to help me. So I guess I shouldn't take all the credit. It's all God's work. Thank you God for letting me learn again

I made more changes on the site again today. This time around, I did it for me. I even added a new feature. I'm not going to say that now my site is bullet-proof because I learn enough to know that it will never be. This website doesn't worth a thing but for me it's just so personal. It's not an esthetically nice website but it really is my baby. I couldn't give you the address because there's no point in doing so since my computer are not online most of the time. I learnt a lot through this whole process. Again I must thank God. Well ... Most of you who strangely are reading this right now most probably don't get what I'm writing about but thank you for reading up to this line. Here, I'm giving you my favourite item from my imaginary store.

It's called Tulips for Lovers. Read more if you want to know the cheesy description Centuries ago tulips became the traditional way to declare love. 20 stems of pink, white and red tulips in a glass vase along with a touch of ribbon. Send an unmistakable sign of your affections that's as timeless as tulips themselves. The price is only S$55 Okay, now I'm going to tell you something so silly that I will regret putting this white into blue, but here it goes: back then I used to pretend I was sending this tulip to my crush I know I'm freakin crazy *sigH* Ikan yang itu bukan untuk saya

written Saturday night (16/10/04)

:) eKa @ 3:35:00 PM •

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