It has been awhile since last I wrote. In the inerviening time, I have graduated from school with an applied associates in Computer Science, joined a gospel group (playing bass and not singing...yet), and have started back to school to get my BA (I wanted a BS, but I have kids who are growing up too quick to spend the time it would take)
So, while swilling a large cup of strong coffee (to stay awake since I've started back to school, it's up every morning at 4:30AM, work at 6am) I stumbled across something sweet. VB dot net 2005 has built in support for regular expressions!
For those who are not aware of this very handy but weird language, regular expressions are a way to search for patterns in text. A simple exaple, [0-9] would return a match of any number 0 to 9. Regular expressions are extremely useful for pattern matching. Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression for more information.
I've been working on a manual for our heirloom management system I wrote. I am working to move heirloom production from me to our customer service unit. I'm trying to be concise, but I am up to 27 pages, and I still have at least two sections left.
I've been using Gimp's screen shot feature for creating diagrams and illistrations for the manual. The screen shot features is found under the file menu, then aquire. It's easier than using the printscreen feature of Windows.
