[ciapug] Hello...and what time is Monday's meeting?

[Carl Olsen]

I'm writing an application in C# right now.  It's a real estate web site for
a non-profit, so anyone can list a property for free.  I would imagine the
properties have to be in some sort of target area.  There will be a search
tool for people looking for these properties.  I re-code the property search
for Hubbell Realty several times, but that was done in PHP.  This will be
very similar.  I'm working on the photo piece now which involved graphic
manipulation for the images.  There will be full and thumb sizes, and I'm
storing the originals just in case I want to use them later.  I'm allowing
input files to be in .gif, .jpg, .tif, .png, and .bmp, and then outputting
them all in .jpg.  I have the code for this posted on my web site

http://www.carlswebs.com/modules/newsmanager/shownews.aspx?NewsID=51

but it's in .NET 1.1 and I'm doing this piece in .NET 2.0.

I think Visual Studio now supports both Ruby and Python, but I'm not sure.

I'm doing this entire project in Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition (free)
which now allows the SQL Server database (also free) to exist inside the web
site and all the class files are compiled on the server on the first run so
I don't have to compile them separately any more.  I'm doing all the stored
procedures in Visual Studio, so I never leave the application or the IDE for
the whole thing, which is a huge improvement over the way I was coding my
.NET 1.1 applications (plus the cost of those tools which were not free).
It's a lot more like PHP now (although I still use a separate tool for MySQL
- just too lazy to learn how to do it in Zend Studio).  Zend Studio isn't
free, but I just downloaded the new Eclipse thing for Zend and its free (it
looks good from what I've seen so far - which is not much).

Carl

-----Original Message-----
From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Bill Davis
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 5:42 PM
To: Central Iowa PHP Users Group
Subject: Re: [ciapug] Hello...and what time is Monday's meeting?

On Sep 30, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Carl Olsen wrote:

> It's the first Monday of the month unless that is a holiday (then I  
> think it
> is the first Tuesday).

Thanks! I like regular ones, so I can set up a repeating reminder in  
my PDA so I won't forget.

> I took the Invitation to Computer Science class but
> I'm too busy to keep on taking classes.  I was amazed at how much I  
> learned
> in that class.  I thought I already knew it all.  Just kidding.

I programmed most recently in Visual Basic 6 for about 7 years and  
VMS Basic and DCL for 9 years, and NEVER thought I knew it all  
despite learning new stuff constantly.

I'm presently trying to find projects to do to learn more about Java  
(taken 3 courses at DMACC a couple of years ago), JavaScript, VB.NET  
or C#.NET (taken some courses in ASP.NET and SQL Server last year),  
PHP, Python (can't find a local group, looks like there was one once  
though but the link to the Pyowa mailing list points to CIALUG's  
mailing list page.)  Also very interested in Ruby which just had a  
local group just start up  (www.iowaruby.org) though there's no call  
for it here locally to speak of...but I keep reading about it and  
Rails in the professional and trade press so  I figure it might be  
wise to start to learn about it NOW.

All that's going to take a while, obviously!   Meanwhile I'm also  
trying to find a job...which is a full time job on it's own. But in  
the long term it won't hurt to be decently knowledgeable about all of  
the above.   Not to mention XML, CSS, HTML (knowledgeable but rusty  
on the part that relates to CSS), XSLT, and so on.  Whew.     That  
oughta keep me out of trouble!

>
> I want to take Linear Algebra next.

Took that.  About 1981.   Haven't used it since.  Nor Calculus or  
trig.   Dang it.

I should take a look at the Drake CS and CIS programs these days, and  
compare 'em to what the job market's looking for too.   Should be an  
interesting bit o' research. I got more use out of the CIS courses  
than I did the CS courses, frankly.   Hmmmm...I wonder if Drake still  
has a placement office for grads and if they'd still help out an  
older alum like me.   They placed me with Pioneer Hi-Bred back in  
''84.  Pioneer called ME. Pretty nice.   They still court grads, I  
attended a job fair at the Pioneer campus in Johnston a few months back.

>
> Thanks for joining!
>
> Carl
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ciapug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:ciapug-bounces at cialug.org]  
> On Behalf
> Of Bill Davis
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 4:38 PM
> To: Central Iowa PHP Users Group
> Subject: Re: [ciapug] Hello...and what time is Monday's meeting?
>
> Thanks  for the welcome and the info, Carl (and also John).
>
> Good to see someone from Drake!  I'm an alum (BA in Computer Science,
> 1984) and so is my girlfriend (Masters, 2003) and she used to work
> there too (Jolie Prentice).
>
> Hope to see everyone there tomorrow night.     Is it always the first
> Monday now, or does it shift around like the web site seems to show?
>
> _______________________
> Bill Davis
> 5214 Meredith Drive
> Des Moines, IA
> 50310-2956 USA
> bill.davis at gmail.com
> +1 (515) 360-0445 cellular
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