Week 3 - Blood clots, Super Burritos, and More Wordpress!

8am-5pm - 9 hours
Total - 24.5 hours

I rolled into AP around 9:30 as usual and was pleased to find a reserved parking spot (thank you Henning) which saved me a cool $12. Checked in and found out that Brandon was hospitalized due to leg pain (update: Brandon had a blood clot in his leg and is on the road to recovery, though the doctors couldn't find a definite cause for the clot. He should be back within a week or so.)

Sebastian and I got back to work configuring our Wordpress installations and finding what is and isn't possible with the restriction plugins. Up until this point, we had been testing everything on Sebastian's and my servers. About half-way through the morning, we connected with David Verba who set up a subdomain of the AP site where we will actual be hosting the site. This was a good step seeing as now we don't have to worry about different versions of Wordpress or having to migrate from another server configuration.

At noon we breaked and sat in on another portfolio presentation for the visual design lead. The woman interviewing, Kumi (forget her last name), is coming from over 10 years as a visual designer for Microsoft, involved heavily in the creation of Windows Vista, Windows Live, MSNTV, etc. I found myself more inpressed than the portfolio of the previous week, yet still not "wowed." I thought she had some excellent insight into where the existing Microsoft process is broken but still have to wonder just how many bad habits become engrained after working in a dysfunctional system for that long. Also, her portfolio was about 90% Microsoft work and didn't give much of a sense of versatility. It seems like someone that's going to fufill all the requirements of AP is going to have to be flat out amazing. Let's just say I'm glad that I'm just the intern.

After the presentation Sebastian and I headed over to Mexico du Parc (as usual) and grabbed some food to take back to the office (carne asada super burrito = muy bien). We continued to play around with the plugins and I read up on some of the Wordpress documentation, trying to understand "Pages." Sebastian headed off to a meeting and I continued working solo.

At some point during the afternoon, I noticed that I lost the ability to use the theme editor with an odd error message saying "if this file were writable, you could edit it." Frusturated, I spent way too long tracing the problem to incorrect permissions on some of the FTPed folders. After finally resolving that, I spent the rest of the afternoon fighting the FTP connection that refused to transfer more than one file at a time without timing out--a frusturating end to an unproductive afternoon.

Next week I'll be coming in two days to compensate for being out of town over spring break. We need to get cracking with less than two weeks to go. More to come...