Chris’ Blog

Well life has gotten busy! School starts, and thats the end of it! I have to work 20 hrs a week, and now I have labs, homework, and just busy work. Physics is killing me because probably mainly because I don’t own the book… I’m thinking maybe I need to buy it. And Probably spend time reading for my classes… Well I don’t really like that idea, but I’m guessing I’ll have to. I also worked a bit more on the family web page this weekend. It was a day off and I didn’t feel like working. I now have a way to upload pictures (only *.jpg now) and it creates a thumbnail for each image. It also now has an image viewer that is written in ajax. This was a nice setup but now I have to setup a way for it to only show the particular user or family pictures. I also fixed the time option so that it displays as AM and PM, and that it shows NONE if no time is given. I also started to create a date range option which shows a calendar that someone can click to fill in the date boxes. It looks ok although I haven’t uploaded it to the live site yet. Maybe sometime this weekend… Back to school work!

Well, it seems that I am not very good at this blogging thing… I only choose to do it when I don’t want to do what ever it is that I am supposed to be doing. Well this weekend was a busy one… I worked long and hard on the Family Web page. Its looking pretty good, however I noticed that much of the work I did was more fine tuning, and not huge breakthroughs - on the live site that is. I spent a considerable amount of time working with file uploads, and an ajax image viewer, but I don’t yet know how to implement that within the whole thing. should every user get their own image folder? or how do I really want to do it… Its funny how I might leave these questions now for a couple of days, and when I come back I may just have an answer… Or… I might not… So I’m supposed to be doing some kind of homework right now - well, I have a reading and quiz due at 9 am, a set of homework problems due at 5pm (for the same class, but I don’t have the book here…) And I have a lab due at 5 also. To top it all off, tomorrow is supposed to be the day that I work real hard and get lots done at work so that I don’t have to work so hard the rest of the week So its going to be a fun day! I really should do some of these website evaluations for my lab… Or maybe I will find a good way to do repeating events in a mysql calendar…

How fast time flies! I can’t believe its already Wednesday, and real soon it will be Thursday! How incredible! When you are busy working, things pass you by… Well, it is the 3rd I know, but Happy New Year! It is 2007! Wow… and to think it was 7 years ago already that they were afraid the whole world would come to a screeching halt! Well I for one am glad that it didn’t! So what have I been up to? Well the calendar now works great on the family website - well… it did work great until I attempted to put it all in the same directory - then it seemed to have some problems. There is a working copy that you can view at http://hess.selfip.com:81/family/calendar.php this will be made better over time, however my local version runs off of one DB and almost has it all in one main directory. The next step? well to get this one working first I guess… Right now I’m actually on the clock for my work. I am building a windows web service that will run a function on a web page (inspiration just came to me!) and right now I am waiting to see if it doesn’t run (because it is set not to at certain times…) So I just have to wait so I figured I would use my time wisely! Anyway, I guess I’ll probably do a bit of this family web page while I wait! I’ll keep you posted!