Will “The EvCC Strict Coder Guru”

Working with Ektron’s glorious old-school eMPower, the main CMS product that started them rolling, I have noticed a few quirks that are quite funny and bring laughter to anyone’s day. After a Java update, much of our library failed to clients across the campus and it seems in mine (and probably others) that when highlighting text or pictures and move around, it adds more code.. just for highlighting.

I think I found an example too. Check out this screen shot of one of the Athletic pages after I was converting it to the new site. Can you guess by looking in the code, what the page was about???

The Last Day

So I woke up and watched the news seeing that the major airlines were still having delays, but not cancellations. I packed up and headed out. I had to stop by a Dunkin’ Donuts just to try it and then I was off onto the Everett Turnpike Toll road to the airport.

I pulled into the airport and dropped off the ridiculous rated car rental and then I headed in. The lines to check in for US Airways were long, but most were standing there not using the kiosks. The lady asked for people to step forward and no one did, so I went and checked in including my baggage. Well it seemed other flights were delayed, luckily mine was not though. I went to the security check-in to see the lines, but not as long as other major airports. It seemed it went quick until they checked my bag. I had a lead shield to protect the camera film, so they said my whole bag looked black and will be ‘thoroughly’ checked. The lady opened up ever zipper and slowly took everything out. She took the special wand and sniffed out my bag, going through everything. I am glad in a way, since there is more precaution now and making sure nothing will happen.
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Day 4

So today I woke up to some distressing news on Airport security. It seems they found Terrorists in UK planning on bombing mid-flight planes on the way to the US here. They arrested 21 of the maybe 50 they suspect. The main thing they found was inert liquids that they could bring on, but once combined could be high explosive bombs. So now Homeland Security has determined a high risk of terrorism and has given the following restrictions against the following carry-ons:

· Beverages
· Shampoo
· Suntan Lotion
· Creams
· Toothpaste
· Hair Gel
· Other items of similar consistency

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Day 3 

So it got down to making custom controls inside Visual Studio for the training site we are creating. Some simple functions we worked on were categorial lists, creating business rules, server controls in VB, and then into Document Management. When we used the library and the image editor, I was excited because it allowed the user to crop and resize when uploading into the library (something Greg was looking for). With this manager, Ektron Explorer, it seemed like a simple file system interface, yet I was not able to upload and got the great error -2147217911. They took the number and then tried to fix it, but no avail. Read more

Day 2

Today started the beginning of my training for the CMS 400 .Net v6. The setup was not all that I expected. It seems that they just started these trainings back in June, yet have a high request for them. Initially it was going to be once every other month.. . but now has pushed to about once a week. It is also not restricted to New Hampshire, they had one in L.A. and the UK. It began with a small room (in the Ektron space of about 8 rooms) with 8 computers. They added more, knocking down the wall next to it to have 5 rows of computers and 2 projectors.

As far as the CMS, it seems they set us up with MS Web Developer Express 2005.. (free).. and it seems to be handling well. Read more

Day 1 continues…

So with a plan in mind, plus my final project for B&W Photography class, I was off again driving the highways and byways of New Hampshire. I was able to find an easy route heading due east from the airport. The highway was empty looking and long stretches of highway made it look like those up I-5 past Mount Vernon.

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