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July 26, 2005
Meal Plan/Count Projections
Today was a very good day in that I finished a project I've been working on for a few months. Karen (Dining) asked me to pull the counts of who ate (and how they paid) out of the CBORD server and compile them so that we could project (based on what percentage ate in the past) how many people will be eating in the upcoming weeks.
Well today I've finished the project. There is one tiny piece I'm waiting for to safeguard data integrity, but that should be finished this week. Using this program Karen and Julie should be able to more accurately guess how many people will be eating each day - thereby eliminating food and money waste.
Karen was very happy with the results and one of my test pages turned into a report that she loved. Bonus!
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July 7, 2005
RESNET 2005
This is a follow-up blog to my Atlanta Blog. I returned from GA about 9 days ago. I really had a good time, even though the weather was outrageous and I don't really love traveling - especially not alone.
Let me cover some of the highpoints. I'm hoping to compile a full list of conference topics (from the ResNet 2005 Conference) and present them to Bill, Karen, Tina, etc... as appropriate. I am usually the kind of person who likes to make sweeping changes, and I don't really like waiting, so I guess this will help me professionally to become more patient for things.
I spent a lot of time with Chris from another OUS school. We have interfaced before and I've learned a lot from him up to now. Having someone I knew at the conference was nice, in that I felt more comfortable in many situations. For instance, we caught the last 3 innings of a Braves game - and I seriously doubt that I would have gone unless I was going with someone that I knew.
Anyway I made some new friends, lots of new contacts and really strengthened the relationship between myself and Chris. Networking is a big part of these events, and try as I might I could not find a school with even a similar situation as WOU. First of all we are smaller, and have no one person dedicated to ResNet (residential networking - ours is called ResComp). So it was nice to compare notes about a lot of sessions to get other peoples' opinions of what I was hearing.
Anyway, topics included spyware and virus removal, student auto-registration for network cards, among numerous other. I learned a ton (some of which I can't talk about here), but mostly would like to implement (or take a step closer to) an auto-registration system for WOU.
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July 6, 2005
Upgrade Day
Today, lovely as it was, I spent the whole day inside on my computer upgrading our Housing Management system to a new version with support in New York. As they started at 6am, I started at 3am this morning - so I'm coming up on my 14th hour today (with at least one more to go).
But I don't mind so much. Yesterday was the 4th of July, and as I'm a true patriot at heart, I really enjoyed this weekend. Didn't get much sleep though :) Can't win them all...
So the upgrade seems to have gone well, except that we are getting this weird network connection error message on the Dining UI side. I'm waiting for support to call me back right now. He didn't know off the top of his head what the problem was. But hopefully he'll figure it out, fix it, I can test it, reinstall the UI's downstairs and go home. I could use a nap. Especially since we moved 12 yards of dirt this weekend to make my backyard. I have 10 more yards coming tomorrow, so hopefully my tan won't turn into a sunburn.
Well, that's all for today. It's been long, and I've been tired all day, but we've made lots of progress. Besides - we're like 90% there.
(that was for Bill)
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