A change of pace for the week
Most of last week I was out in the country at a campground, helping teach the "Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills" course to a group of new missionaries with the Free Methodist Church (http://www.fmcna.org).
What a delightful group of folks. One couple was in their late 20s, another in their late 30s, another in their late 40s, another in their late 50s and another in their early 60s. I think they represent a cross-section of the new missionary candidates with a lot of organizations.
In the evenings I had a chance to work on some background code in the Donor Manager, continuing to move some of the behind the scenes code to a more object oriented programming style. Plus, for a diversion, I continued my reading and learning of ADO.NET (another Microsoft database programming system), and watched some episodes of the first season of The West Wing. For Christmas, I got a set of DVDs of the West Wing (I had probably only seen 2 or 3 episodes of this in the past several years). I was very impressed with this show. I didn't agree with the political perspective of many of the characters, but am looking forward to finishing the set.
This weekend I completed beta 10 which I posted Sunday evening. Not many new features, but a lot of behind the scenes changes. Plus, there is a major enhancement of the filtering routine in the works thanks to Doug Thomson. Doug wrote the compression library that makes the "Pack and Go" and the "Live Update" routines possible. He's also got some database synchonization code and screen resizing code that will probably make it into the program at some time in the near future.
I had a birthday last week. I was out teaching at the SYIS workshop, and my wife and daughter had bought me a very nice digital camera for my birthday. It is the Canon Rebel EOS Digital, and they spent way too much money for it. But, it is a really, really nice camera. I'm looking forward to using it!
This week I need to help write some new software to link the Christian Union's new accounting system to the Donor Manager. I had written the original code several years ago to create DM posting files for their missionaries, and a major upgrade in their accounting system has just been completed, so the DM synch needs some tweaking.
What a delightful group of folks. One couple was in their late 20s, another in their late 30s, another in their late 40s, another in their late 50s and another in their early 60s. I think they represent a cross-section of the new missionary candidates with a lot of organizations.
In the evenings I had a chance to work on some background code in the Donor Manager, continuing to move some of the behind the scenes code to a more object oriented programming style. Plus, for a diversion, I continued my reading and learning of ADO.NET (another Microsoft database programming system), and watched some episodes of the first season of The West Wing. For Christmas, I got a set of DVDs of the West Wing (I had probably only seen 2 or 3 episodes of this in the past several years). I was very impressed with this show. I didn't agree with the political perspective of many of the characters, but am looking forward to finishing the set.
This weekend I completed beta 10 which I posted Sunday evening. Not many new features, but a lot of behind the scenes changes. Plus, there is a major enhancement of the filtering routine in the works thanks to Doug Thomson. Doug wrote the compression library that makes the "Pack and Go" and the "Live Update" routines possible. He's also got some database synchonization code and screen resizing code that will probably make it into the program at some time in the near future.
I had a birthday last week. I was out teaching at the SYIS workshop, and my wife and daughter had bought me a very nice digital camera for my birthday. It is the Canon Rebel EOS Digital, and they spent way too much money for it. But, it is a really, really nice camera. I'm looking forward to using it!
This week I need to help write some new software to link the Christian Union's new accounting system to the Donor Manager. I had written the original code several years ago to create DM posting files for their missionaries, and a major upgrade in their accounting system has just been completed, so the DM synch needs some tweaking.
1 Comments:
Hey John,
Tim here, I was at the SYIS a week or so ago, it was GREAT.
It sure was good to get to know you a bit - and find out about your programming abilitys and how it connects to the mission world of today.
I am currently uploading and inputting my contact info into DM. Superb! That is what I have to say. Keep up the good work?
Tim, Griffhome@msn.com
www.griffhome.com
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