Yes, I know that it is already the middle of February and that this post is long overdue. I also know that if I don’t take the time to write it now (when I have a few spare minutes of breathing room) then I never will and this initiative will die a fast death.

So here goes. As some of you may have read, I posted a list of the five objectives for my company for January, 2010. I am pleased to report that a lot of progress was made on each item, though some of them still aren’t in the “done” category.

1. Update and upgrade hosting environment. This is completed. Not only did we apply all relevant patches to the hosting environment, we also doubled the amount of member available on the dedicated hardware node that hosts our VPS instances at bodHost from 16gb to 32gb.
2. Updates to applications. This is about 60% done. We have moved to ckEditor (which I highly recommend), and changed how the application includes javascript files (which has improved performance dramatically). The removal of YUI completely from the application hasn’t been completed yet, but should be by the end of February.
3. Migration of websites to file share. This is completed. There are no longer any site files on the individual web servers, and they are all on a backed-up file server.
4. Enhancements to management software. I am pleased to report that this is about 60% done, but with everything else that was being worked on last month (and how it took a substantial amount of time to complete), it is still on the open item list.
5. Launch of public website. This is also still pending. Again, with the amount of time taken to get the other items done, it seems that the dentist’s kids will continue to have bad teeth for another month.

Overall, I am incredibly happy with the changes, and I have received very good feedback from our clients (which is the point, after all). Still, there are a lot of open items on that list. If I had to give us a grade for January, I would have to give us a B- or a C+. We will do better in February.