I plan to get a lot of work done over the Labor Day weekend. Last night I finished working through a lengthy chapter on Lighting in 3D with After Effects. That was the last chapter I needed to complete my study of the essential features of the program. However there is still a chapter on standard special effects I need to go through and then I’ll move on to other books.
Today I am backing up my data because I have a lot of work to preserve. It would be horrible to lose all that work and a real set back. I also plan to copy my projects, development web sites, and Visual Studio projects to my spare PC. A spare PC with plenty of disk space makes an excellent back up device. My wireless network makes it easy to share files between my computers located in different rooms.
My favorite vlogger has closed all her social networking site accounts without a good by or any explanation to her many friends and fans. That has deeply saddened me.
Next week I plan to buy a new car to replace my current vehicle which cannot be trusted for long trips. I won’t be buying a brand new car because I cannot afford it. I will be buying a used car because even the low-end used cars are better than my junk heap. My car does not even have air conditioning and that really sucks on long trips in the summer. Buying the car may lose me a day of work on my numerous projects.
Last week I completed a set of ASP.NET pages for typical database table management or CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete). I designed the pages using various tips I’ve picked up on how to make these operations convenient for the user. This includes popping up a confirmation window before allowing a record to be deleted, icons to visually indicate the operation to be performed, tooltips to identify the record title and provide a hint, data entry validation and confirmation messages. I still need to document my ASP.NET 1.1 version and then begin an ASP.NET 2.0 version.
