Yesterday, I needed to move money from the joint account to the personal account. I also needed lunch.
I was able to get my morning coffee/chocolate drink, then go to Chase ATM and then the Wells Fargo ATM, then the gym and finally lunch using apps and taps with my phone.
The technology is getting there but I still have a wallet pasted to my cell phone case.
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I'm working on the Nano Degree from Udacity for Mobile Web Specialist. I know exactly what needs to be done.
I need to display whether or not a restaurant is a favorite. After two days of struggling I get it to work. Seriously, all I need to do is retrieve a restaurant by id and display a value based on true or false. It shouldn't take two days to figure out the code for that.
It shouldn't take me forever to figure out how to do a POST to the web site to change the value.
Saw something neat on facebook today and it was the path that someone took to be a success from KFC to RN.
Well, I didn't save my name tags, but:
first job was candy stripping
Krystal's
McDonald's
— got smart and found out I'd make double at a grocery store and not come home greasy – Jitney Jungle
Air Force ROTC & Kelly Girl & Tutor (to pay for college)
Mississippi Chemical
Texas Instruments
Dallas ISD
Johns Hopkins University
Personally I think it been pretty cool.
I have GOT to start blogging regularly again. Especially since I have some fun things going on.
In the technology world, my teaching schedule has been the best ever. I almost always do more than 10 hours a week, and hit 20 hours a lot. Most of the students are fun to teach, but every once in a while I get one that wants to manipulate the system.
My favorites are the ones who want a one-on-one session and then expect me to their assignment.
I'm taking a Udacity course. It was a scholarship. Back in January, I filled out a form (I love filling out forms), and got a chance to compete for the scholarship which I won. I'm still not sure how, because part of it was communicating with the group and I stop when a male student shot me down. I'm getting better at dealing with that.
The course is on mobile web development which was a great choice. We are writing a restaurant review site. I've been consisting finishing projects a month in advance and I'm a student leader. This afternoon we're having a study jam and I'm going to be online for two hours helping my fellow students.
I'm on the last part, and just about got it working the way the second part did. Each part, they change the way the server behaves and we had to change the program to match. This time we get the data differently than we did Part 2. I've always started out by getting the web site to function again first. Later on today, I'm going to focus on getting the first new feature to work.
I've got some ideas for mobile web sites and will soon start trying to implement them. I'm also trying to figure out how to use this one.
One of the things that has been giving the MWS track fits is creating responsive images.
The course suggests setting up an automated build process using with ImageMagick or ImageOptim. I'm running a Mac, and I chose ImageMagick.
First you have to install Node.js. Directions are at https://docs.npmjs.com/getting-started/installing-node. There are very good directions on this site for installing Node.js . I used the MacOS installer and updated everything.
I then installed ImageMagick using http://imagemagick.org/script/index.php . They had suggested another link but it indicated that it didn't work with the current Mac operating system. I am not sure how I originally installed it, but I ended up copying the latest version and putting it in the place the other one was.
ImageMagick automates a lot of the work that GIMP and Photoshop does — resize images, make animated gifs, crop and other fun stuff.
For a mobile web app, we want to compress the images and make about three different versions, a small, medium and large version basically for phone, tablet or large desktop screens.
The next thing we need is Grunt. Grunt is a task runner — if we set up Grunt correctly, then we can take any group of images and make them responsive. We're also going to use it later to set up our Mobile Web environment.
I followed this document: https://gruntjs.com/getting-started to get started.
There is lots of documentation on using Grunt/Imagick/Responsive Images. The reading that was provided in the course was: https://addyosmani.com/blog/generate-multi-resolution-images-for-srcset-with-grunt/
Here's the files I used for the project: https://github.com/kathweaver/images
Earlier this year, I won a scholarship to study Mobile Web Applications on the Udacity site. There were 10,000 scholarships awarded, and there was an opportunity to complete and be selected for Phase 2.
I won that scholarship also.
I choose mobile web design because I feel that track is the most flexible. It's also the most useful in my current life.
I do the website for a non-profit, have done websites for others and believe in the power of mobile websites.
The first phase required us to be active in the community and complete the assignments. That meant projects for the other strands: Android and IOS especially.
We have access to a mentor, the community of learners — 1000 recipients for each strand were selected, Udacity staff, and project coaches.
I've learned a lot, and have successfully submitted my first project. There are two more before the scholarship period ends next October.
I was selected to be student learner which has been fun. I've hosted a AMA already, and have helped organize one face-to-face meet up so far.
I have always had a desktop PC — set up for me to remote into.
The last was a huge Lenovo beast that I really liked, but it finally died. I took the hard drive out today and I took it to the city electronics dump.
Right now, I have a mac mini in it's place, but I don't think I'll replace it. I haven't used it that much any way.
Funny how times have changed but I have been slowly moving most of its functioning to the cloud and I haven't worked at a desk for long periods of time in ages. I prefer working on the sofa.
I am not ruling out another career — I am in my late 50's but I am drawing retirement pay and am teaching part time. Most of the time I enjoy my life and I have time to explore some fun things. Last year, I got a championship on a dog. Currently I am learning more about mobile app development through a Grow with Google Scholarship Udacity Nanodegree Scholarship and I am a student leader.
I spent my first years getting there — working in tech in high school, getting scholarships, getting through college and getting established.
I worked for over 10 years for Texas Instruments and I was a very cool job, first with GSI and then with Equipment Group but it was a struggle being a woman.
I had a over 25 year career as a teacher — won lots of awards and loved my students — the pinnacle being my STEM award — TI Foundation inducts first ten teachers into STEM Academy as fellows - and my first Robotics team being asked to compete at state competition.
I even went back into industry working on a mobile payment app. That was a contract gig.
I've got lots to offer career advice wise and happy to help.
It’s my second one …..
The first one came earlier this year and was lost in my email. It was for the competition that led to this actual NanoDegree scholarship for Udacity Mobile Web Development. I started about 3 weeks behind, had several weeks I was just stuck but still managed to finish a month early.
I signed up for mobile web development because I really like that is the future. If you do things mobile web, it should work on any device.
Looking forward to it. It’s a $1200 scholarship with great learning support.
I’m in a really good place teaching on line right now.
I still have some week where I only work about 5 hours. But lately I’ve been seeing more weeks when I work over 10 hours. I am not allowed to work over 29 1/2 hours a week and that has only happened once or twice.
This also means I don’t have to mystery shop unless I want to.
I am also teaching a new course. The second one I helped create.