Progress can be slow
It's been almost 6 months since I first posted in this blog. And the refactoring is still far from being complete. As is common with a small team working on a project, emergency (perceived and real) improvements have been made to the product. Holidays, end of year and start of a new fundraising season events interrupted progress on refactoring including the most important task of adding indexes to some files to (hopefully) drastically improve speed on the larger data requests. I work from home so the last weeks of suggested (and now required) shelter in place due to COVID-19 concerns have not impeded my ability to make progress. In fact, it's actually improved since I no longer take a 2-3 hour lunch to work at a local Catholic grade school as the lunchroom cashier. My own children (ages 20, 16 and 16) are home but largely self-sufficient. Now that I have been able to return my focus to refactoring, I picked up where I left off thanks to my work log ...