Time Marches On....

     Well, it has been a while since my first blog.  I have been working diligently on my project.  It has been a lot of fun and a great learning experience for me.  My project has now reached completion and is entering the testing phase.  I will be rolling out it to a select group of users to get their feedback.  I would like to consider this project as completed, but according to my boss this is just the start.  He anticipates, and I have to agree with him base on past projects, that once the users see the new view of their system that they will start to ask for additional modifications and additions. 
     I have learned so many things about ASP.Net and HTML, but there is still so much more to learn.  There were some parts of my project that were written by a coworker that has more experience and I am very grateful for his help and guidance in assisting me on this project.  I look forward to my next project and hope that I will be able to do more of it on my own.  I also had another coworker help put some finishing touches on my project by adding some animation to the web form.  I am not sure if the animation will stay or the uers will ask to remove it, but I think it looks so cool!
     What did I learn you are wondering???  I now have some knowledge in Cascading Style Sheets(css), in which I can create inline tables and image mapping as well as adding background images to my forms.  I am still not quite sure about the positioning of controls as far as absolute and relative go, but I managed to set the forms up and have it display nicely on 19" monitors as well as on the laptops our company uses.  Also, I learned how to retrieve data from a database and create a dataset to use in order to populate the controls on my forms.  I don't know if there was a lot more that I learned, but what was important to me was that I have become more comfortable in doing development in ASP.Net.  I am still nervous about doing my next project whatever that may be, however I have a slightly higher confidence level that I didn't have before and I look forward to my next opportunity to expand my knowledge and experience.
    My final step in this process is to have a code review meeting with my coworkers.  I have a delicate ego and I must be honest and say that I do not look forward to this meeting.  I will however try and keep an open mind and remind myself that this is an opportunity to improve my programming skills by having others look at my code and see what I could have done differently.  Not an easy thing for me to do!