Techy things

So, I'm sick for the week. I pulled something in my back that hurts like fuck everytime I take a step...I feel like an invalid.
I went to see an orthopaed about it...who in turn gave me one of the most painful experiances of my life. It was worth it tho...two days later, im feeling alot better.

So techy stuff;

I got the okay from the IHK for my Final project. "the installation and migration of an OTRS system."
This means I can get started.

I will be using a virtual box for this, running centos5.3 i386, standered LAMP pack with the installation and migration being the easy part. What you do it install the same version of the otrs system on your target box, and migrate the databases with pipe...well export first. then you just run the upgrade scripts. The database structure does not chage during minor releases, so 2.0.1 is the same structure as 2.0.5. The upgrade process happens when upgrading from say 2.0 to 3.0 and so on. Its a real easy project, and is not hard at all, the documentation will tougher :D tho the presentation infront of the designated jury will either be a breeze or....a disaster.

My experiance tho is that when I get a chace to talk someones ear off...it seems to come naturally. Just keep going till the your time is up, and leave little or no time for questions. This tactic works well hand has gotten me A+'s before...let see how it works this time.

In other news, Im working on my communication skills. backtraking: japanese culture (where I grew up) states; one must never let on the point of conflict during conversation. That means, we tend to beat around the bush, and take people on longwinded, and seemingly unstructured mental walks, never really getting to th point.... heh.

Seeing as Im running into a massive roadblock on a specific software project that I am working on, that is just cycling into oblivion...I feel I really need to get this ironed out. See being a system intigrator, I feel as if my skills dont match up for developing. I have written the odd PHP based application with database connectivity. But I dont feel as if this stuff can be marketed. Its kinda "as is" software.

But thats besides the point, I dont want to be held financially responsible for a system that I am doing for free. And I need to say that without beating around the bush. The problem really is (in german law) everything you sell/buy has to be warrentied for at lest 2 years. You as the seller will have either replace it or fix it (you may charge hours). And the software Im working on, I cant guarantee, as Im just too new to the game to know what to look for. Also did I mention Im writing the software ....for free?

Well, now its out there. . . the die is cast (melodramatic)

Now to write some software.

Cheers