I don’t know exactly when I started working on it, because I can’t remember what I was doing
on May 19, 2012, but give or take, it must have been somewhere around midnight that same night.
On May 20 I asked Aspone whether they would grant me Full Trust permissions, even though I hadn’t put anything on the web yet, because it couldn’t do much, and what it could do, it did still imperfectly. It was basically selected guts of my earlier program, which could only search for verses:
👻 The server was sent to a retirement home for domains.. I improved it a bit so it could also handle incorrectly entered verses that would not be found in the Bible. The most time, maybe half a day, went into AJAX processing of the results – that means the whole page doesn’t reload with each new query, but only the part where something changed. By today I also wanted to make a top bar and an option to choose the background – and I could tick both off as done. The background feature works with Cookies, Session and ASP.NET themes.
On May 21 I uploaded it to the hosting for the first time and found out that I would have to add recognition of other abbreviations when searching by verses, because not everyone enters them in 1-2 letter formats (with the occasional exception, such as the Song of Songs, which uses a three-letter abbreviation). It still can’t do that today, but hopefully it will someday. It’s simple to do, and if more people want it, it’s no problem to add, as long as I have good data available. By this evening searching by words was already working, but it still went through all the verses, no word index had been created and it was quite slow – the paradox is that even now, with the word index, it isn’t much faster. But that could be fixed if I loaded the index into memory.
May 22 brought the main new feature, namely search by chapter and book. Best suited for when you want to look at the contents of a whole chapter. The second thing was that in the evening I started working on word indexes to speed up the full-text search. Today I just finished the little stuff, like help and so on. I also had to rework it a bit, because the ASP.NET application refused to run in Integrated mode. And I’m glad that since May 19 I’m finally programming a bit again: 👻 The link retired before it was eligible for a pension.! And the whole thing can be found at: