Facebook

Hello, everyone. I am presently reading about Facebook applications. I am curious about them because I use many of them. Some of the one's I have used impressed me, made me laugh, and got me to think that I should try making one of them. The problem is the languages they support for making their applications are all ones that I no experience in. I have signed up and registered a test application in the hopes that I will someday begin work on a Facebook project. Anyways, I have a long drive ahead of me. I have to go back to Des Moines, spent a wonderful Holiday Weekend at home. Next weekend I plan to go to Adventure Land Theme Park with my best friend, and girlfriend Diedra.

Thanks,
Matt

3-Day Weekend!!!!

This week was full of wonderful programming experiences. Even though times were difficult and frustrating I pulled through. I am still having problems with my program, but mostly cosmetic. The project lead wants every field in my forms to autohighlight when the user picks that field. Then if they click it again the cursor should be place were that click is. This is turning out to be more difficult than expected. I can only get the text to highlight when the field is tabbed to, and I am uncertain if that has anything to do with my code. My next issues is having a three letter abbreviation automatically be the start of a new row in a combo box. Because these three letters are never going to change. I can get them there and can mostly stop them from being deleted. But, their are still glitches. I plan to use vb express this weekend to find ways to fix these problems. Anyway, I am going to try and have a fun and safe weekend.

Matthew Cook

Programming is hell

Hello, everyone. Assuming that no one read this. I am everyone. Anyways, I didn't get a chance to post yesterday. My mind was kinda wrapped around a problem I have been having at work. I have been working with this DataGrid in vb 2008 and everything is working well. The I hit the escape key while editing a new row and find that I get an amazing amount of errors out of it. I spent most of last night researching this topic. I found that when using Row Validating, you have to set your conditions explicitly in order to have the escape key work properly. Yesterday, I kept on looking for ways to catch the delete key when it is pressed and found that to be a crazy amount of code. My philosophy is that you should look for the shortest and most general purpose code to complete a task. I figured out that the delete key null the entire row prior to entering row validating so all I had to do is make sure the row is null or notDirty and it would skip over my regular operations. Thus, saving me the trouble of writing insane amounts of code.

As for my quiz show database. That is being delayed a bit more, I figure with the 3 day weekend coming up I should have plenty of time to work on it. I am considering writing two versions of my quiz program. One in vb that is run like a regular program and one in asp that can be ran on a website. I figure this will push me a bit further in my summer goals. Which I am fully confident I can achieve.

Thanks,
Matt Cook