SteveOH

Great site: http://home.hia.no/~stephens/rowing.htm

Attached is a page from the website regarding training. I will, as soon as I have a moment, write up a plan of action for training. My personal training. It will include current state of fitness, some measures, etc. Then I’ll elaborate on course of action, measures, etc. I hope that others will be able to use what I will do as a framework for their own development, both physically and in the sport.

Rowing Technique- The Mike Spracklen Philosophy

I’m currently on the track to earn two masters degrees (Information Security and Computer Science) and a doctorate in Computer Science.  Well, I’ve decided that I would like to earn a certification as well.  There are a few reasons for my choice, but the main reasons are 1) programming is my passion, 2) I have web programming experience and would like to validate it with a certification, 3) the potential work oppurtunities will increase with the certification, and 4) I chose this certification as opposed to an MCSA or MCSE because it only requires 2 exams and because I feel that the experiences I already have can validate my Network Administrator experience.

The certification is the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS), particularly the MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Web Applications using VB.NET.  My initial goal was to earn it within 6 months from today as I continue my traditional education, however, since the books I purchased won’t be here until the end of August and the other at the end of December.  The two books I ordered from Amazon are the much awaited books byAmit Kalani.

“MCTS 70-536 Exam Prep: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Foundation Exam (Exam Cram 2)”
Amit Kalani; Hardcover; $40.79

“MCTS 70-528 Exam Prep: Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-based Client Development Exam (Exam Cram 2)”
Amit Kalani; Paperback; $40.79

So my goal has evolved to 6 months from the reciept of the first book should be arriving at the end of August, and at 3 months per exam that gives me from Sept – Nov for the first and Dec – Feb for the second, all while I continue schooling.

This will be interesting… I will keep you updated!

So I was looking at an ex-coworker of mine’s website (he does web development consulting) and I saw a project he had created which was a photo gallery.  Now, it’s serves it’s purpose, and it’s pretty quick (pretty efficient) but it’s just ugly as hell and doesn’t really do much.  That might have been it’s purpose, and while I love the bare-minimum approach to creating web applications to allow for a more professional and functional application, it was a bit too plan.  So what I am considering doing, as my first personal project for this half of the year, is create a photo album that utilizes JavaScript, ASP.NET and AJAX.  The latter being the challenge because I do not know how to code is AJAX.

Now this photo album / gallery is going to be able to be plug and play with only a few things to configure.  Similarly, I want to build in the functionality of simply FTPing images to a folder and having the application load them in.  That would be a much quicker way of uploading images.  The only opensource app I’ve seen to possess this functionality is Coppermine Photo Gallery, which is pretty good, but the uploading of images one at a time is not a desirable trait.

More to come…