Very Busy, No Progress
Sorry to anyone hoping for more progress. My time has been extremely tied up with my job, and the recent holiday. Tonight, however, I did have a chance to fire up Eclipse and rewrite some of the code I had been looking into. I'm going to have to find somebody that knows a bit more about Java and good Design practices to throw some of my ideas to.

I am really starting to wish I had just dove into Struts right off. I realize then I wouldn't have learned as much, but this is becoming a bit of a pain. The good news though, like I said before, it shouldn't take me a whole lot more work to get this stuff up and going.

Once v1.0 is up, v2.0 will not be up for awhile. The projects page will feature my log of of this project. Finally, at that point, and make this page be what it was originally designed for, my personal blog.

BTW, if you haven't been paying attention, MSU is in Sweet Sixteen. They will be playing on Friday against Memphis. Don't expect me to get too much done if we win that game.

Thanks for checking back. I'll try to get some more stuff up for you soon. Later!

Long time, No Posts
I have redone a lot of my work on the blog system. I decided it would be best if I put all posts in the same database table, and then link updates to it that way. I found the flaw when reviewing my schema. There was no way for me to link my site updates with blog posts. That's what happens when you don't draw out the schema before you decide to write it. Since this is my own project, I'll do it however the hell I want.

I'm going to start rewriting some of my actual DB Access classes. I tried to have them implement a common interface, but it's too much of a pain in the ass. It will help me vastly reduce the number of classes I have to write for the DB Access.

What it comes down to, I'm finding several flaws in the application design as I attempt to progress. I've kept my application layers separate, but I've tried to generalize too much. I have a tendency to do this. It's the not the first time, and it probably won't be the last. I keep telling myself not to worry about it too much, just fix it to the best extent I can. After all, I'm just trying to get v.1.0 of the site running. I have a nice Struts 2 Tutorial book sitting here next to me to help me with v.2.0. I imagine that will make things quite a bit easier to handle. v.1.0 is me trying to hack my way through JSP.

It does feel great to be back into Java though. Good stuff. Expect something tomorrow. I think (keyword there) that I have things in decent enough shape to possibly make some decent progress now. Deadline is coming, and I have no intentions of missing it. Thanks for reading, check back soon and often!