It was this setback right at the beginning of my work that delayed my entire project by several days. I spent a week trying to figure out why I could not get ColdFusion to run properly on my computer, and so by the time I actually figured out what was wrong I only had several days left to complete my work and a corresponding web site. Needless to say this led to several sleepless nights.
Other than the major setback at the beginning, everything ran quite smoothly for me. Looking back now it seems like I did a lot of work to produce just 4 files, which is a little frustrating, but what these files do is pretty impressive! The biggest challenge for me in this project was not actual data production, but all of new software I was exposed to. Before I began I had never used ColdFusion or MapGuide, never programmed in HTML or SQL, and never created an Access database. If I had all of this knowledge beforehand it would have taken considerably less time indeed. I believe Brad put it best when he said "This will take you a long time to do, but it would only take our experienced programmer a few hours!". He was right.
Another thing that I learned from this project was that none of it really seemed like I was making a GIS, but that I was just programming instead. However once it all came together the result is obviously a GIS, and a handy one too!