Recent Posts

• October 23, 2022

  Focus

  This week I have had to focus on Arkansas Asset Builders and my task on there. I am still working on the parser that parses CSV files. I am basically finished and now need to test and debug. At first I was struggling with just getting the parser to read the file canonically so that the absolute path is not needed for when files are loaded to the program manually. I am running into problems with just finding the index of where a String is inside of a list. For some reason, the method is not recognizing the String in the list even though everything is spelled correctly; a -1 is returned meaning that the String does not exist in the list. Still trying to figure that out.

• October 16, 2022

  Fall Break

  This past week was somewhat of a relaxing week since it was Fall break from Thursday to Sunday. I put off coding after Wednesday’s meeting and decided to focus on an essay which was due at the end of fall break, which is kind of wack but I still had a break from my other classes.

• October 09, 2022

  Data, Data, Data

  I have some experience with databases and connecting them to software as well as handling data input and output. For this reason, I have been doing some work on connecting our Firestore database for Good Vibes to the static web page that I developed last year so that people that visit the site can see different formatted data, such as the mood chart, which is kind of neat and fun to learn how to do. I am also working on a parser for CSV files so that files that come from Arkansas Asset Builders can be read into a database and formatted correctly.

• October 02, 2022

  Slow Start

  This past week as well as the previous two weeks have been moving very slowly for the Arkansas Asset Builders group. We were supposed to have a working demo done two weeks ago but a couple of the teammates have been behind on their issues. I previously had been working on the JAR file to be able to run the application from the desktop instead of an IDE, which I completed last week. I was tasked with helping to update the Hendrix Assessment project for some new sections that need to be added with the new year but I never received any tasking for the specific issue in a message nor is there an issue for me to work on for the project so I did not work on it over the weekend. I could not think of any more issues to create that I could work on for Arkansas Asset Builders so that is the next problem that I need to figure out.

• September 25, 2022

  First Success

  It has been a long 2-3 weeks since starting things with Arkansas Asset Builders but I finally completed the first objective of mine for the project this past week. I managed to create a JAR file for the project that is able to run the project outside of the project environment and even from the file explorer. I did not need to create an executable as the way that it is set up now works and fulfills the purpose of having something that can launch the project from anywhere in the user’s system. The only thing that may be of concern is the user having Java installed into their computer in order to run the JAR file, which would be another issue that we would need to address. Either way, we have something that functions properly and fixes an issue that we have (for now).