A Little Update on the new Java Project
i spent a good amount of time on the project today. which for me is about 7 hours. that brings my total up to around 110 hours. i haven’t taken a check yet though. i’ve been thinking that this whole thing is TOTALLY FUCKED but i’ve got some confidence now that i can straighten things out. i just need to fully step through this one flow on the site….and then i can show it off a bit. the site is an astrology-related site, and the flow i’m trying to nail down is the one which allows a user to enter in a precise birth place which will allow for calculating the ascendant and the moon-sign.
this whole site was built by some old-school type nerds using vi and CVS. it’s my first real big exposure to struts and velocity. i’m not at all impressed with either, and wonder what it will take to at least upgrade to struts 2. i think there are some real issues with the way struts 1 handles forms. the site was initially built around 2002 and there must be some big improvements in some of these libraries since 2002. the site is old enough that when it was built Java’s XML support was a complete fucking mess. that was changed at least as early as JDK 1.4, and has probably been further improved along the way to Java 6. we’re also upgrading from MySQL 3 to 5.1. So far that part has been pretty much painless.
the project is pretty hardcore. for him to find someone else that can handle it…he’s definitely going to be paying that coder around $80/hour or more, perhaps as high a rate as $200/hr. there’s some C involved, some JNI…it’s not for the feint of heart. at least i’ve taken some steps forward with the work. but until it is something presentable i’m going to be a worried guy. it’s been on my plate since October and now we’re halfway to February. even i think that’s slow moving. maybe if i work a lot of hours in these next couple of days i can show him a graph of the time spent and how it is unmistakably increasing.
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