Well, not on the litteral road, lol.

More like on the virtual road again. The road of TIMS. I got ten nice new updates planned for TIMS, coming soon to a local intranet on CU. Those updates(with one which I just completed included…I will mark it…) are….

1) Reorganize Menus
2) “Softcode” list of statuses
3) Mainentence meu(maybe—might throw into the weekly check)
4) Inventory Menu
5) Summary Menu
6) Remove an old and outdated report(and all things tied to it)(DONE!)
7) Add “decommissioned” status to printers, and then update reports accordingly to handle this new status of printers Fix bug in “Add New Printers” function
9) Reduce false positives on the printer monitor
10) Rename all tables to start with TIMS_

These are gonna be fun to implement. Some are not too bad. Such as the bug in Add New Printers. Some of the other one(mainly all the menu re-organizations) will be a pain to deal with. Cause that will cause a relinking in some of the areas, so I will have to make sure those links follow all the way through. Some of the other ones will also be interesting. Such as the summary menu. That will be javascript based(maybe…) and will more than likely be a pain in the rear end to do. The one that is most important is number 2. That one is critical. I have found that as firmwares are updated and printers change model numbers, they might have different statuses for how they determine if printer cartridges are low or missing. So in the past(at the very get go) I hard coded those parameters into the system. Now as our network of printers are starting to change, I find that there will be a need to change these possible in the future. And harcoding these into the system will not do. I need to store these in a database and then load them when needed,store them in an array, and then go through the array to determine if that is one of the status messages of a printer that indicate that it is missing a toner cartridge. This way the list of statuses can be updates without having to go into the code of TIMS itself and change it.

The other pain one will be reducing the number of false positives on the monitor. That will be fun cause at this moment I have no way to do it speedily. I can do it, but it will slow the system way down…..think think think

I keep these updates coming at TIMS like this and pretty soon it will have to transition over to 2.0 becuase none of the original code will be around!

Oh well, no time to chat, family is almost here, adios all!

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Congratulations are in order for Andrej and his wife on the birth of their daughter
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Its a crazy day. Yes it is. Heck, when is one of my normal work days not crazy?

Been a full week back at work, an dI still feel like I am playing catchup from the week I was gone at home. It was worth it going home though, as a lot of stuff had to be done around the house. It was also just nice to have a week and relax a little, although I don’t know how you can call laboring out in the hot sun relaxing at all. But like I said, it had to be done, so I didn’t mind one bit. It was kinda a different pace than sitting down behind a desk all week, ya know?

Well today was entertaining. I discovered that I am allergic to tuna fish. Not deadly allergic. Just allergic enough where it becomes puffy right above my eye-brows. My mom first noticed the puffiness this past Sunday when I was at home. I had some tuna fish that saturday in the form of tuna salad. One of my favorite meals. I have also had tuna all this week in the form of panera. Hmm…I love their tuna salad sandwich there. But the puffiness has been getting worse and worse as the week has been going on, as a direct result of the tuna. Guess I will have to stay away from it for a while.

Other than that, I have decided that once the position becomes available, I will try out and apply for the position. If I don’t get the position than I don’t get it. Eh? Oh well. That’s ok. I’m ready to take all that comes my way.

Well as far as for other fun and new things that are going on in my life. Nothing much else is happening. I have started playing pso blue burst. I love this latest incarnation of PSO. It’s on the computer. Has a brand new episode. And also has new items and other fun things which seems to streamline the story a little bit more. So far I have recreated my two favorite characters on there. I have Nina which is a Fonewarl(female Newman force) and Gus, my RaMar(male human ranger). Both of them are excelling nicely right now. Can’t wait till I get a few more levels up with each of them as they progress through the story, and eventually through episode 4. Although for my force it will be a little while before she is able to get out there……..

Anything else new? No, not that I can think of. There are a few “fun” things such as just daily work routines. Right now we are in the middle of swapping out the old D600’s(2003 model) to the new D610’s. Lets just say there is a big jump in performance there. Actually, a really big jump. Not so much processor wise, although there is a jump there because of the fact that the processor(if I am correct) has some more cache. It also is faster processor—by maybe 200 MHZ tops. Not a lot, but still, being able to pull a little more juice out of somethign is always good.

Well I should get going I guess. I mean, I do have some work to do, although right now there is a little bit of a lull. But I do have some catching up of some things to do. Like what? I don’t know. I will find something to do. I can always find something to do here at work. There is always some paper work or something along those lines to do. And of course….there is always TIMS to complete working on………..

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