Visual Studio Express – Happy One Year Anniversary!
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I wrote a VB program for my 8125 today
We have Visual Studio 2003 on our computers, and I had a spare moment today, so I took a few minutes and wrote a quick and dirty VB program, created the CAB and downloaded it to my phone. Same level of program my regular CS kids are writing and creating.
I am not sure they got how cool it is that it is THAT easy to do, hopefully they will. I’m going to show all my classes that today.
By the way, I got the idea of doing it from Alfred Thompson’s blog!
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8125
So far I like the 8125 after using it for a week.
Biggest problem … diabetes software but I still have my Treo and an Zire. The Treo still works of course and switching to it just takes moving the SIM.
Gmaps doesn’t work but Virtual Earth Mobile does.
The Internet and email works much better. Syncing is easier. Actually everything I do on a regular basis is easier on the 8125.
I have ordered a case similar to the case I have for the Treo. Silicon that takes little extra room. I have also ordered a screen protector. -
Phone SharpMT
I am trying the edition and it is working much better than the pocket version. At the moment I have the functionality I use on a regular basis though I am trying to decide what to do about diabetes software.
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Pocket Sharp
I am using Pocket Sharp to blog with the phone.
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New Toy
I am playing with a Windows Smart Phone while waiting for the Treo 680 to come out.
Things I like: the ability to do Windows things especially internet explorer.
its official… Blazer sucks
the weird part is that the blogging software cannot handle the keyboard well.
my students who have seen it think I should keep it and dump the palm os
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This is kind of cool.
I just like the fact that Libya’s government has completely changed their attitude.
Report: Libya buys laptops for schoolchildren – CNN.com
NEW YORK (AP) — The government of Libya reached an agreement with an American nonprofit group to provide inexpensive laptop computers to all of its 1.2 million schoolchildren, The New York Times reported in Wednesday’s editions.
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Raptor
Okay, I am hooked and I am in love.
Went to CS4HS this summer. First, I will say, I am not a good traveler, and I don’t like sitting still. Thus I don’t do workshops well.
But I am in love with Raptor. See http://raptor.martincarlisle.com/
I put it on my computers, took a few seconds. I printed out the first handout and gave it to the kids yesterday.
Today I had them write “Hello World”. Boring… but necessary in my opinion.
Then I had them write a program that got two numbers from the user and out put the sum. I’ll come back after 4th and let you know how it went, but …
I have six kids in 1st period PreAP. 2 “got it”. 2 still think the rest of us have another head. 2 understand why the first two got it, but think that they are weird.
Frankly, I’ve never had kids engaged in programming this fast.
IT’S COOL!
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Replacing a hard drive
Today is a staff development day and since I did 17 1/2 hours this summer, I have the day off. Of course, I always do more than the required hours (22 hours).
Anyway, I have noticed that the hard drive in my home office system has been whining and this morning I woke up to a black screen and the drive light lit. When I rebooted, I got a SMART drive error, telling me to back up my data as the drive was failing.
I did.
So I hadn’t planned this, though today is full of mundane errands, I’m replacing the hard drive. It’s a Maxtor and I bought a new Maxtor — 200 gig at $49 after rebate. Not a bad deal.
The nice thing is how much easier it is these days to replace a hard drive, I was dreading it, and still am, but all I am having to do is run the MaxBlast software.
And I can wait until the whining disk is out of the system!