What is OneNote and Five Benefits

I am going to start this off with a blog post that I wrote for Dev.to about OneNote and its benefits to using OneNote. OneNote allows you to insert files, type or draw, insert tables, add/edit images, record audio/video, and most importantly, gather and keep track of notes into digital notebooks. To illustrate, a company has many customers. The company can keep track of their new and existing customers conversations, meetings, meetings, customer support requests, product customization, and the product health usage as part of their company on-boarding and user adoption plan. Therefore, OneNote is like a file cabinet; where sections are considered your file folders and pages are your documents within the folders.

There are five benefits to using OneNote. Click here to view the five benefits on my Dev.to blog post.. 

Welcome Back DC Tech Sista

It has been a while since I did a blog posting. However, my goal now is to revamp my blog to write at times about Office365, SharePoint, PowerBi, and of course Excel.

Learning a New Language(Python)

I have to admit it has been over a year since I did a blog post. I decided to re-evaluate on the language that I want to learn which C# is great as well as Java but I was unable to understand it. I decided for the past year to work on Python which came with an ease with. As a beginner, I would recommended reading books on the following Python which are online as well:

• Think like a computer scientist 
• Automate the Boring Stuff 
• Learn Python the Hard Way.

I also like the course that I took in Course which was Introduction to Python which really made you understand the concepts of Python. 

For the past year, I have been studying Python and currently, I am working on the following:

• Tango with Django 
• Udemy courses which focuses on HTML5

Currently, I am working on projects such as Job Opportunities app with Pyladies and my own projects that I will display on Github. 

In the next blog post, I will write about my experiences on Python and the projects I work on. 

All about API's

I truly adore going to tech meet-ups.  One of the meet-ups I went to last night was about mobile as this is one of my interests. Last night speaker was talking about API’s which I have heard about API’s but never knew how to use an API especially as it relates to mobile. Here are my few take a ways.

• What does API stand for? Application Programming Interface
• API is http based
• Why create API?  There are four reasons to create API which are:
• Have data to share
• Have functionality to offer
• Allows others to lead their customer to you
• Several ways to build API which are WCF data services(OData), ASP.NET web API, and Azure mobile services

      The speaker recommended not using SOAP/ASMX. I am not sure why but I would like to perform           research on this issue.       Windows Azure was mentioned to use as a free account or if you want to pay to use for mobile                 services. I would like to sign up for the free account and practice from there.
      Encourage us to visit http://www.asp.net/web-api to learn how to create an  API which is on my list.       The speaker presentation can be found at:      http://devhammer.net/creating-and-consuming-web-apis-in-.net

Progress: C# and Javascript

Recently I have been studying C# and gotten off to a slow start. Currently I am in chapter two where they speak about commenting. I have completed reading the chapter and now working on the exercises to understand the full-meaning of them.

Also, JavaScript has started to occupy my mind as I am studying that as well. About two weeks or so ago, I went to a JavaScript meet-up group and they mentioned some of the resources to use when learning the language. One of the resources I found to be good is Mozilla Development Network that has a list of other programming languages that can be learned but I am focusing on JavaScript this time. Here are few other resources I found to be of great use for me as a beginner and free.

• W3 Schools
• Udemy
• Virtual University
• W3 Resource (practice exercises for basic, intermediate, and advanced)
  Today’s goal is to work on the following which seem to be a lot
  
• Study JavaScript from Mozilla Development Network(Values, variables, and literals)
• Re-practice the exercises from W3 Resource  for JavaScript
• Practice C# exercises from http://www.worldbestlearningcenter.com/index_files/csharp-operators-exercises.htm
• Work on two projects which are Tomboy Notes and another project that involves WordPress.  I have worked on building this WordPress site before and have plans to rebuild the site again with something new and different.  I wonder if I can include some functionality of JavaScript into WordPress this time.

Tomboy Notes: CLI Interface Overview

Yesterday while I was in the fitness center exercising, I was looking at this show that they had on called celebrity wife swap. One of the couples on the show had a well-defined schedule that listed things to do throughout the day on the refrigerator. It made me think about how I should somewhat incorporate how this couple created a schedule of the times they do things. In this case, I definitely wanted to use the way they handle their schedule with how I want to learn C#. So today, I hope that I sit down and write out a C# schedule for learning and display my schedule on my wall possibly in my bedroom.

Working a bug from Bugzilla Gnome

There are at least four or five bugs that have been assigned to me to attempt to work on.  One of the bugs that I am working on from tomboy notes will be about CLI Interface to start sync.

CLI interface to start sync

Here is the issue

• A lot of notes are written at home
• Attempting to access Tomboy Notes from work
• Use ssh into homebox and read through xml files into text-editor

Recommendations

• Command-line interface to initiate the sync.
• Then I can ssh to home, run the sync command from the shell, and then have everything in sync.
• Initiate sync from a shell script.
• Sync a backup of my notes to a remote server and the script already sets up everything (encFS etc) but I still have to initiate the sync manually. So bug #562097

Notes

Since I am new to understanding C# and its language, I have to research what this means. For starters,  I will research the following:

• What is CLI?
• What is ssh?
• How to sync from a shell script.

Learning Programming: Going to Meetups/Setting Goals

 

It has been about a week or so since I have written anything. Between that time I went to the Javascript meet up group to see which resources to learn as a beginner.  Also, there is another meet up group that I would like to attend probably when they start back up somewhere in September or October which is the Java study group. I think that learning this along with C# will be similar as I believe and I could be wrong that they both have almost the same syntax. I am focusing on C# more because there is a project called Tomboy Notes that I am working with. Hopefully this month, I can examine, write, or view code on a daily basis and write about it.

My goals for this month are:

·         to work with some of the bugs that are in the GNOME Bugzilla database which can be found athttps://bugzilla.gnome.org/

·         write about my experiences with the bugs that I worked on.

·         Read the book called Sam’s Teach Yourself C# language in 21 days. Looking through this book, I think it is going to take me more than 21 days to understand this maybe 45 days. Starting from today until 45 days from now it should take me until October 18, 2014. That is only I do so every day.

With that said. During my lunch break, I decided to peer into the Sam’s Teach Yourself C# language, chapter 1 and stopped at page 14 and hopefully pick back up tomorrow with the remaining pages.