OK its been a while since I have blogged this has been for many reasons the sudden on rush of assignments, and the realisation that I have to get them done quickly lol.

The news on the assignment is really good (I think anyway) its going really well my knowledge of Java Servlets and JSP pages is getting better all the time. The other person (who will be known as design guru from here on in) is really getting there teeth into the design and also understands the passion I have (some Say OCD) for getting programming done to an industry standard, whether I am actually at an industry standard will be decided when I start my placement I guess :-) .

We decided that in order to stand out and be a little different we would do a site that incorporates many challenges, which the least of which would be an inverted search indexing system for all items uploaded to the applications database. (wow that sounds a lot nastier than it should).

The part I am having real fun with is the Servlets that handle ll the major functions of the site, including the uploading of items, creation of new users and of course searching the database for appropriate images according to terms that are provided by the user.

I am trying to prevent SQL Injection hacks which I suppose due to the fact my SQL statements are prepared I may be OK (if I’m wrong let me know) I check the variables that are added to these SQL statements using regular expression also, before I get a lot of mail telling me I am stupid ;-) .

So what is it I hear you call ;-) its a stock images upload site that allows users to upload and sell there images for download, the site also offers credit tracking facilities. (well it will when I have finished that section lol).