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Alison Hawke

Alison Hawke

Roadmap

Why do they call it a development roadmap, when calling it a feature list would be more accurate? Map sounds more adventurous, you see Terra Incognita and "Here Be Dragons" on maps. Chronicle now has a roadmap, going from version 0.2 (add, update, save and delete entries

Tower of Babel GUI design.

It used to be that you could tell what language a program was written in just by looking at it running. Visual Basic 3.0 and 4.0 were kind of chunky, Borland Delphi had those nasty yes/no buttons where the check mark floated above the button when it

Version 0.2

Chronicle version 0.2 is complete. It can load, save and update entries, and that nasty random flood of exceptions is gone. Amazing what a little re-ordering in the constructor will do for you. The next version's big task is to sort out publishing the blog to a

In progress

Caught up with marking my HTML student's web sites, nine so far. Our domain name is propagating through the name servers, should be online by the weekend. I put a place marker page there with another new Paint Shop Pro background. I am 100% certain that no other

Latin and layers

Created a few new web page backgrounds with Paint Shop Pro 7. Amazing what you can do with a pattern fill, colorize, and a semi-transparent white layer. Paul got the tree component on Chronicle working. I loaded all my existing Blog entries in, so both programs have a complete data

A home of our own

Registered a domain name and signed up for domain hosting. Permanent Internet real estate. Paid web hosting. A home of our own. http://www.quanta.f2s.com/ will be moving, it may even get a redesign. Saw "Ocean's Eleven," very good film.

SSN

My Social Security Number finally arrived! I am not a free person, I am a number! Woohoo! The last obstacle between me and a job is no more. And it only took 4 1/2 weeks, instead of the two I was told. Got a lovely java compiler message the

Load and Save

Wrote the XSL transform stylesheets to turn Chronicle's XML output into PHP pages for upload. Paul found some FTP code we can use. Next thing to do is create an ExportEntry class that extends DiaryEntry and adds system locale specific day and month names. Then see about loading.

Code

Much messing with source files. Changing your data model partway through a project is not the best thing to do because you have to delete the one file you've been holding on to as sacred, rename a pile of stuff, redirect files to look at other files, create

Caffeine overload

Never eat a piece of caffeinated candy after midday if you want to sleep. The St Louis Rams football team beat the Green Bay Packers team 45 to 17 yesterday. A 28 point lead is almost embarrassing. Watched it at the Pageant, just off U City loop, with Sarah and

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