I am on my third attempt to write this post.
This picture is of Graysie in the box my new laptop shipped in. I got a new laptop for $670.00. It's bare bones, with my splurges on a carrying case and spare charger. It cam with Vista and 1GB of RAM.
My goal is to downgrade the computer to XP for my final semester in school. I do need to learn ASP.Net, in some ways. My Senior Project will be in PHP on my Ubuntu box, but I'd like to still work with ASP.Net so I look flexible. My belife is that is doesn't hurt to know many things. I feel by learning PHP, I might do better as ASP.Net. I got an A in my Client/Server class last fall, but I was better at theory than I was at coding.
As to what I think of Vista? I like the glossy, glassy look. Again, that's a visual thing. My fear is it being such a resource hog, as to what I have heard it is. I plan on using it for a week, so I have a clue of how it is. Maybe I'll switch back when school is over for me. However, I can get the glossy, glassy look on my Ubuntu box with Beryl. I'm really not sure what to think.
Yesterday, the Executive Council for AASU's ACM chapter met to briefly discuss a few things and schedule our planning retreat next month. Last week, Joey, the secretary, and I met up to parse through pictures for the the website. It became an impromptu idea generating meeting as well. So, the Council will have some ideas to start with and we'll see where we go from there. The main goal we have is the get the website is up. Thankfully, using the template Aric created last year, I got some content developed this month. The site should be good to go before the start of Fall semester. When I got home from the meeting, I was able to modify a simple PHP e-mailer script I've used on my site and developed it such that I have a an error page that will load content a person have already filled out into the error form. It doesn't sound like much, but it was very educational for me in learn how to transfer and load session variables. 
I learn by creating small stuff first and building on top of that. Because I have been doing the small stuff, I shoul have better luck with my Senior Project, which will require more stuff. I can expand on my knowledge. So far, I have developed a small addition script and now worked on a script that passes variables onto a dfferent page. That's a good bulk of my project there that I have worked on, in theory. Once I understand the theory, the coding shouldn't be too hard.
[♪ Listening to: "Special" - Garbage]
Posted by Shawn at June 27, 2007 3:30 PM in Flickr Photos, Geek, Schooling.
