Late Release Update 19-Feb-06

Still no word back from the obfuscator people. 5 minutes to type out an email and they could have had a $200 sale. But I found another one, more expensive, however it (seemed to) work straight off the bat.

Obtaining my own SSL certificate took longer than I thought - it wasn't a case at all of putting in the request before going to bed, and then waking up and all would be done. No, it's still being installed. But I've tested the webservice without going through https and all seems fine, therefore it shouldn't (emphasis on shouldn't) take long to get up and running once I get the certificate.

Yesterday I spent all day going through the dump of the MySQL database, and changing it to PostgreSQL syntax. That task continued through to lunch time today. It was fun, in the same way as pulling your own teeth out might be fun. I don't want to say definitely that PostgreSQL will be the winner yet, until I know for sure that Thinking Stuff works properly with it. But PostgreSQL is certainly the front-runner, as it is completely free, and probably has more features and more support behind it from the developer community than SQLite (which has other good features of its own). And, PostgreSQL downloaded and installed very easily.

I now have a PostgreSQL database fully loaded with Thinking Stuff schema and data, and this afternoon I will change the code in Thinking Stuff to connect to that instead of the MySQL database. And hopefully, everything will work fine (emphasis on hopefully...)