Personal Log for Sidharth Gupta  back

02/01/02: Initial meeting, discussion of project ideas

02/02/02: Decide on final project requirements and member responsibilities

02/03/02: Brush up on database basics

02/04/02: Group leader chosen, review of project requirements

02/09/02:  Assignment of member responsibilities

02/14/02 & 02/15/02:  Consulted my DBMS book for database design issues.

02/18/02:  Work on rough database design. Created Entity Relationship diagram  for project database 

02/22/02:  Discussed further database design requirements online on AOL instant messenger.

03/02/02: Initial database designed using Microsoft Access.

3/05/02: Try to find a host for hosting our pages and database

3/08/02: Review database structure and read about creating DSN for connecting the database to the code.

3/10/02: Install Internet Information Server 5.0 on my laptop running Windows 2000 Professional.

3/11/02: Read about IIS configurations and configure my server to host pages locally.

3/12/02: Create a DSN for the database and tried to connect using sample cgi scripts.

3/15/02: Work on server configurations and install Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions.

3/16/02: Read about ASP support in IIS 5.0.

3/18/02: Learn  ASP coding using VBScripts from tutorials at websites like http://www.learnasp.com and Microsoft's http://asp.net

3/20/02: Read a book about ASP programming that I got from Barnes & Noble.

3/21/02: Read ASP book

3/22/02: Read ASP book and trying making some test scripts.

3/23/02: Search for a host to host our ASP pages.

3/26/02, 11am - 1am(next day): Work with group member Gaurav to use ASP in our pages 

3/30/02: Worked on implementing submit ad and new user with Gaurav

3/31/02 (2pm - 3:30am next day): Worked on the edit and delete functionalities for users and ads with Gaurav

4/1/02 ( 1:10 - 2:30pm ): Group meeting - prepared for presentation for the next day and discuss changes in website functionalities.

4/1/02 (evening) : Make website presentable for the presentation and did last minute changes as discussed in the meeting.

4/12/02: database optimization with Gaurav.

4/19/02: worked on security and encryption with Gaurav.

4/24/02: finished security and encryption with Gaurav.

5/04/02: Database Optimization of Use Case Search.

5/05/02: website design and testing with Gaurav.

5/06/02: Deliverable and writeup with Gaurav.