Catching Up: Week Five

This week I have started on building a database for the Press. When I first walked into the office on Monday, my supervisor, Than, looked on me and said he had a job for me "whether I wanted it or not." At first I thought I'd be doing yet another read through of the Alps book (which I believed to be slowly burning a hole in my brain).

Quite the contrary, he asked about my knowledge of building databases, which I have done on a very small scale before. He then asked me to work on building a Database based off the design off another publishing companies database.

I accepted the task and began looking through things. At first I thought I was doing fine until I hit two major road blocks. Tabs and what the program calls portals. I spent nearly six hours struggling to figure out how they work. After which I figured out Tabs(which was basically me not clicking and dragging a large enough section), but I've yet to figure out portals. Regardless, I'm just going to work on getting the information I can down and worry about portals later.