BUS ADM 740 Blog

Sick again, and project status

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:36:51 GMT

Have a nasty cold that Pascal also has. So...tired...

The project. Well, I designed the forms and some wouldn't display (there were 4), so I moved all but the startup under a second project under the same solution and now at least they display in design mode. I'd love to start working on them but can't get the startup form even to launch - it gives a resources error, although I have nothing in resources. Fun!

Week off

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:29:42 GMT

After all the work I've been doing in this class, I decided to take a week off....

So busy

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:01:37 GMT

Well, not much to report here. Learning lots of new things about programming, but still finding that it takes lots of work to make stuff work - not crazy about that!

I've got a good idea for my project and will start on it this weekend.

Lab 3

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:14:47 GMT

Well, I've had loads of fun with Lab 3. This is the programming I remember. Writing something that really looks like it makes sense, but it doesn't make sense.

It seems that I have to declare isNonNegativeInteger twice - once in the Class library and once in the main program. That doesn't seem right, but if I don't, I get an error that it wasn't declared in one or the other. I think my problem now has something to do with that. I have this endless loop with the first question popping up (I put that into a Do loop that goes out to my class library thingy that figures out whether it's a nonneg int. and then comes back and loops as long as nonneg. is false. also tried looping until nonneg is true. Either way, and no matter what value I enter, I get the first question again and again and the MessageBox doesn't pop up(another Grrrr as I can't use MessageBox.Show("xx") for some reason - says name not declared or something).

Anyway, so here's me staring at code I know must be right and rearranging it in different ways that I think are also right and I can't fix it. Hum. That's why I decided I would never be a programmer...

In other news, it seems Pascal's ear infection never quite went away and he's not feeling well again. I can't wait for spring as I hope it will make him ill less often. I can't wait for my happy vibrant boy to be happy and vibrant more often...and in less pain.

March already

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 03:33:55 GMT

I have submitted what I think is quite a good idea for a project, though I don't think it very exciting. Once it's been finalized, I'll write more about it.

Nothing else to write.

Sick again?

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:15:39 GMT

It seems that with a baby in daycare that both of us will be sick all season. I'd like to remember when the season ends...March or so?

Had a stomach bug Sun and yesterday - not fun!

It is not easy keeping up with everything, but I think I am getting quality work done, and hopefully the Prof. will prove me right. For some reason, Activesync stopped working and I needed to manually 'jumpstart' it (thanks to my mobile device background, this was easy stuff).

Hello World!

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:29:21 GMT

Well, it's Tues again and after a very long week which left the baby and myself sick and the family not going to vacation in Door COunty as we were so looking forward to, I'm just hoping we can stay well a little while.

I have looked ahead at Lab 2 and it looks like a real programming assignment, so should be fun!

Holly

Week 4 is starting

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:50:02 GMT

Hello. I think I could learn to like this blog.

I have a sneaking suspicion dass Herr Professor vielleicht Deutsch ist. Ich bin nicht gut mit Akzenten (und war zum letzten mal dort vor VIELE jahren - ich fuehle mich SO alt). Wenn nicht, verliere ich alle Punkte fuer dieses Eintritt (entry?).

Life is still hectic and fun. Pascal is just 7 months, but he's been practicing whistling (pfeifen? I was kicked out of the cathedral in Trier for pfeifen, but the acoustics were SO GREAT I just had to do it) and occasionally he actually makes a noise. That's awesome. I'll have to stop with the 4 letter words soon.

Let's see, I had lots of fun doing Assignment 1. I really can't wait to make the translator. I also hope that the boring-ness of the form I've written won't count against me. I believe in form-follows-function and functional is what the form is...but not pretty. I could, as a joke, put a picture of a flower on the form...or a neato Celtic design...but what purpose would it serve?

Anyway, I like this class much more than I thought I would. I hope I still feel that way after I've actually done more coding ;)

Hol

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 03:20:00 GMT

I got this software installed (after much effort and searching online for exactly what I needed for the prerequisites as the downlod didn't work) as a friend told me 03 and 05 were the same, but I can't find the stupid Resource tab. Ugh. Uninstalling and installing 05.

Hopefully I'll get the resource tab.

VB Studio installed

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:48:19 GMT

OK, so I spent my Sat. night installing VB Studio. Why? Because I didn't realize I had the Prerequisites CD in my download so I went hunting for the individual components I needed for VB to install...then apparently downloaded the wrong (more recent, I'm guessing) versions of them...then found that when one clicks on the words, they RUN SOMETHING. May seem stupid, but honestly, putting a little arrow or button out there would help a lot of us tired, sick folks whose common sense is just a little out of whack.

Anyway, hope to try using it today, and I'd better, as the lab is due.

Baby and I were sick all week.
Picture of my ~~week~~ life :)
(his name is Pascal, should I mention him again)

Finally IN!

EISENHA4@UWM.EDU (ADMIN) — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:45:41 GMT

Not much to write about. I'm eagerly awaiting the development tool...have not looked at Prof. Haines' code for the moving button as I'd like to figure it out on my own :)

At any rate, once I have the tool in place, I'd like to play!