Niraj Bhatt’s Personal Blog

After a long day struggling to deploy my web site I have something up and running at http://www/bhatt.co.uk it took me whole day to set it up and still not completely satisfied with it but something is better than nothing. Well whole day does include throwing football (Yes the American one where you don’t use the foot) at my kids in our living room and occasionally playing with them but it was more of a pain then I had expected. In fact it was more pain then setting up my blog with fairly unknown software (PHP & mySQL).

Believe it or not I installed the MS SQL 2005 express edition 6 times to get it working correctly. It worked just fine on my development machine but as classical as it may sound, it refused to work on the deployment server. I faced every single problem that might be out there during the setup but atleast I have faced all the demons.

The only thing I am not satisfied about is that I have to compromise and set the "User Instance=false" in my connection string. This was due to the refusal of SQL express to create the instance for my web application even though I was able to attach and load it in my studio manager. But I will deal with it again in few days as soon as I get some time.

The web site is far far away from being complete. There is just the front page and the only link that is working is to my blog. But at least the registration and login part is working and also the form to send me the message is working.

Next thing to do is to get some aesthetics right and put up my CV in different format to download and forward it to someone. I might also include something to do with vCard. Also make the site more robot friendly and have a basic gallery working.

The next big thing I want to do is setup my own "Open ID" provider on my server. Let’s see how that goes as I still have to do some research on that.