Arlon's CSUMB Blog

  Mirror, mirror ... I am going to give some reflections on some of my journals, starting with this one. This is the last required journal, and I like making them, so it's probably not going to be the last actual one. Sometimes I feel like I come across something important that should be shared, like The Pet-Petter I made, or the C framework object I made, or  ValueBlaster . The journal is good because you can't remember everything. I really liked, but had completely forgotten about until I ran across yesterday, my Java VLC-Remoter program I made in the first Java class we took here. It's a good thing I put it in my journal, to remind me to finish it, that will be a handy program. Plus, sometimes I like to share things I learned which I find amazing, even if they're known, for example, one very important thing probably lots of people already know about, but I personally hadn't learned until this curriculum was the JavaScript for - 'of' keyword. I've been...

Unplug-replug never fails Required reflections for the week: What project milestones did you accomplish this week? If you're working in a team, please list what you personally contributed, not the project status overall. What is your plan for next week? The main milestone accomplished this week was finishing the video I created for my project: This is it, the website in an iFrame, ValueBlast.Us: Or if you want, you could visit the site: ValueBlast.Us Sub-milestones accomplished this week included: I became knowledgeable in video editing Also became knowledgeable in sound editing And even knowledgeable in making my own sound effects now. Most importantly, I became knowledgeable in session variables, but that was actually a few weeks ago. I also took and presumably passed a final in architecture class this week, and turned in the two last homeworks for that class as well. One was super easy, cache tra...

  The Darkness Descendeth/Hollywood Here I Come!! The week's required reflections: What did I do, and, what am I going to do next week? The first thing I did was started off with starting to make the video script. As I worked on it, I kept getting stuck on how I needed to fix the layout of the website. It was bugging me, and it was bugging my first client, so I switched gears that day, and re-attacked the layout, worried it would spiral into another project of it's own. But I was wrong, and it only took a little bit. The program is super controllable, and everything is super organized. I did a spectacular job on extrapolating the features it's built with, so all I had to do was rearrange the components, written in JSON, inside the JavaScript, and I took a couple out that weren't going to work out anyway, and I still had every type of component demonstrated in the interface, and everything fit perfectly on all the screen resolutions we use. It's even been reported to...