Too Early Hot

It’s not July yet, and we nearly cracked 100°F this week. Yowza!

Small amounts of yardwork this weekend (no mowing needed since it’s so freaking hot), and shedloads of schoolwork going on. By CoB yesterday, I’d gotten all of this week’s assignments submitted.

Today I started on the Big Bad for the summer session, an “Authentic Assessment” for the database capstone course. It’s going to be the equivalent of an entry page and 16 data display and/or modification programs (show, add, delete, or modify for four different tables in the database), and it’s due in 2 weeks from today. I made a huge dent in it, getting ALL of the display functionality done, and implementing the POST logic for getting to the Mod servlets for each table. Once I write one of those, it should be easy to generalize to the others.

Yeah, servlets. I’m using Java and Glassfish for this assignment. The best reason I can give for this choice is that it’s not ASP.NET, and it’s not the crufty PHP I’d have to deal with instead. That and it’s most relevant to the environments I support at work, so that’s a good thing, too.

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Our condolences to the families, friends, and units of these fallen warriors:

• Pfc. Jarrod A. Lallier, 20, of Spokane, Washington, died June 18 in Zharay, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when individuals in Afghan Police uniforms turned their weapons against his unit.
• 1st Lt. Ryan D. Rawl, 30, Lexington, South Carolina, died June 20, in Khowst province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire and an improvised explosive device.
• Sgt. 1st Class Matthew B. Thomas, 30, Travelers Rest, South Carolina, died June 20, in Khowst province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire and an improvised explosive device.
• Spc. John D. Meador II, 36, Columbia, South Carolina, died June 20, in Khowst province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire and an improvised explosive device.
• Sgt. Jose Rodriguez, 22, of Gustine, California, died June 19, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered from enemy small arms fire.
• Lance Cpl. Eugene C. Mills III, 21, of Laurel, Maryland, died June 22 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan.