2011.01.06 (20:05): Thursday hijinks...
Let's see.. Today.. I believe I had a total of two minutes of conversation with another person today. Basically to ask why the hell my pc was locked out... and that was it. It's very odd, if not zen like, how one can be when you are left to your own devices until the 11th... so I am off building a nice web app to access my previously mentioned outlook emails. I figure if I am shoving them into a database *someone* will need to search and find them, right? I also figured it was good experience making webapps. I really hate how limiting the out-of-box controls are.
Take the damn calendar tool. Very lame.. not as awesome as the desktop date picker... so I made up my own custom control that mimics the date picker pretty damn well. Expandable calendar... clickable date selection.. typing date selection (sort of)... and all of this rolls up into a nice search form with the option to download/open pdfs from the database. Go team me.
I also think this whole doodling in my notebook to burn 15 minutes during lunch is a great idea. The time sensitive drawings really forces you to focus.. that and not talking to anyone helps. Keeps the mind limber to jump during those fifteen minutes.
I believe yesterday, if you don't count the excessive time at the bar in the late night, I had only one good interaction with another being, and that would be Pete the Dog.
It's like I am at my own Walden Pond... surrounded by people!
That reminds me, I need to buy Walden Pond again. I haven't read that for a long time and I think my last copy caught fire.
Oh and I really desire to have an Asus tablet... I just cannot justify the grand for the really really super cool one. Maybe the 399 one.. It shall be mine.
Take the damn calendar tool. Very lame.. not as awesome as the desktop date picker... so I made up my own custom control that mimics the date picker pretty damn well. Expandable calendar... clickable date selection.. typing date selection (sort of)... and all of this rolls up into a nice search form with the option to download/open pdfs from the database. Go team me.
I also think this whole doodling in my notebook to burn 15 minutes during lunch is a great idea. The time sensitive drawings really forces you to focus.. that and not talking to anyone helps. Keeps the mind limber to jump during those fifteen minutes.
I believe yesterday, if you don't count the excessive time at the bar in the late night, I had only one good interaction with another being, and that would be Pete the Dog.
It's like I am at my own Walden Pond... surrounded by people!
That reminds me, I need to buy Walden Pond again. I haven't read that for a long time and I think my last copy caught fire.
Oh and I really desire to have an Asus tablet... I just cannot justify the grand for the really really super cool one. Maybe the 399 one.. It shall be mine.
2011.01.04 (22:05): Tuesday gym day..
Arg... I've been slacking off too much. F'n holidays and their constant barrage of drinking and people. Now forward plodding through the desolate months of January and February.
Work's been interesting... Interfacing with the reservation systems was the tip of the iceberg. Then figuring out how to crack into an Outlook email account... that account's being sent a digital copy of every freaking online invoice created so it get huge.. fast. Oh there's a PDF of invoice as well. My job is to write an app that access said account, read the whole email (attachment and all), parse out all the lovely bits, convert the base64 attachment to a byte array, and shove it all into a database. There was some optional compression from the gzipstream (system.io.compression) class, but that only saved 4kb on a 100kb file. Lame.. Oh and I wrote a nice shared method to rip this attachment back out.
So yeah, clean this crap up, get on top of the stupid formatting for the subject (which has variant information regarding the buyer, PNR#, and travel date), and then shove this into a perpetual task that will run every hour on the hour from now to the end of days.
Over all pretty boss. I think my boss was impressed on how quick I was able to do this. This saves some minor face from the debacle of my first attempt at updating rules on their homegrown emailer-rules-app.
I need to find a way to attach a pen to my moleskine notebook. I am going to be hip and trendy drawing in it during my lunches!
Work's been interesting... Interfacing with the reservation systems was the tip of the iceberg. Then figuring out how to crack into an Outlook email account... that account's being sent a digital copy of every freaking online invoice created so it get huge.. fast. Oh there's a PDF of invoice as well. My job is to write an app that access said account, read the whole email (attachment and all), parse out all the lovely bits, convert the base64 attachment to a byte array, and shove it all into a database. There was some optional compression from the gzipstream (system.io.compression) class, but that only saved 4kb on a 100kb file. Lame.. Oh and I wrote a nice shared method to rip this attachment back out.
So yeah, clean this crap up, get on top of the stupid formatting for the subject (which has variant information regarding the buyer, PNR#, and travel date), and then shove this into a perpetual task that will run every hour on the hour from now to the end of days.
Over all pretty boss. I think my boss was impressed on how quick I was able to do this. This saves some minor face from the debacle of my first attempt at updating rules on their homegrown emailer-rules-app.
I need to find a way to attach a pen to my moleskine notebook. I am going to be hip and trendy drawing in it during my lunches!
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