Håfa Adei Everyone,
First, I want to apologize for not being able to give more time to updating the database. The bulk of my current focus and effort is with preparing for FestPac (Festival of Pacific Arts). I am part of the Diaspora Planning Committee, serve as the Training Coordinator and am also a Guam Delegate that will be conducting a Chamorro Diaspora Seminar and “Memorializing Our Family Roots,” workshop.
While it may not seem like it, I have been putting in quite a bit of hours as well with system upgrades and coding. This has been a challenging task, because my coding skills are rusty, and I suppose with age my tolerance levels are lower than what it use to be. Anyways, I have found and am working on some temporary solutions that will allow me to update the database using another method. The database is quite big in file size, and would time-out frequently as I perform the database update procedure. This took me more time and effort to try and resolve, but again just found the temporary solution (forced me back to manually coding a fix). The other challenge with me providing a manual coding fix is that when the system needs some system upgrades, I have to verify that my manual coding does not need to be changed; which so far has forced me to write and re-write codes as I come across system errors when updates are applied.
Also, I have been working with the “Headstone” feature of the project. So there are now about 300 photos or so of them uploaded on a few cemeteries on Guam. I still need to work on the other cemeteries, which should be a couple thousand more data and photo entries. That will take more time, because I need to get back to updating the database. But, at least I know the Headstone feature works and have documented the procedure for that.
Appreciate everyone’s patience with their suggestions and photo submissions. It’s a lot of geek talk and work going on right now, but hey, I’m just glad the system is still up and running! :)
Happy Easter!
Bernard
