Stuff and things

I've noticed that Soukup is taking on a lot of stuff with Student and FIS/HR. I really need to get to the point where he can worry about just Student. I hope it doesn't take a long time for this to happen.

This week we have been working on the leave accrual. Mike is taking Wendler's old script and rewriting it. We were also talking about putting it into job submission that way we no longer have to worry about it. We can teach them how to do it then we can wash our hands clean from making mistakes.

Second week

I spent some time this week using grails for the first time. I like it. It does a good job cutting out things that are tedious to code. I can make a class/entity and just write "def scaffold = class/entity" and all the add, update, delete functionality is automatically made. Validation is made for you as well. If you declare an int in the class, and try to insert a letter, it will show an error message by that box.

Today, I met with Michele and she went over the Procurement Card processes and listed out the where I would come into play with any issues. We talked a little about faculty load and when she has more time we are going to talk more about where Huber was with the project.

First Week

This week has been nothing but learning. Dorothy came over to help me with navigating through the Banner forms. The first day, I felt I didn't know where to start so that was really helpful. Michele also came over and explained a few things for me and actually has some training set up for me :) It's nice that I'm not wandering in the dark.

A lot of the other time has been Soukup showing me how to use SecureCRT, things to look for before running a Pro*C process, how to look at Banner Forms and log in to PL/SQL and view the tables that relate to the forms. Huber left a lot of documentation that I have been reading through. He had a file, "Banner new technology", which shows what Banner 9 will be using (like Groovy, Grails, Hibernate), and RESTful web services. The first on my list to start learning in that is Groovy and Grails. As a student programmer I spent time on RESTful Web Services with Amazon and Facebook. For instance you can use google translate restful api  to get the translation from one language to another for a particular word/phrase all with the url, and it will get you the result that you wish and so you can display it to the page without sending the person to google. It is a stateless alternative to SOAP(Simple Object Access Protocol). I used Netbeans IDE to learn anout REST because they have a good guide here

Today, I talked to Soukup about job submissions and going over some readme files and he pointed out how it would be good to mod a perl file for job submission. Next week I am going to try to get my feet wet with that.