Week 5: June 11th - June 15th

OUTCOMES: My biggest achievement this week was designing code that would allow certain images in the rotating banner in our pages' header to be linkable. The code detects whether or not an link is associated with the image and inserts the link accordingly. This was my first time working in ASP.NET other than creating electronic forms. I was very excited, and was able to create the code in two days (as opposed to the predicted 1-2 weeks).

COMMUNICATION: This week Jeff and I had a couple face to face meetings to go over my workload. I also received a few calls from customers asking for help with Content Mangement, so I walked them through their problems on the phone to get them where they needed to be.

NEXT WEEK’S GOALS: Next week we are going to be testing the code I wrote for the rotating banners before it gets implemented into the site. It seems to be working fine on our development server, so we'll see what testing turns up (although Im confident it is fine as is). We are still waiting on the customer from Purchasing and Contracts to get back to us regarding her page, so hopefully we can get that online next week too.

REFLECTIONS: I again fell back on my computer science skills to help me create the banner code in ASP.NET. Before working with the County I had never had any experience with that language, but I knew enough about C and Java that I was able to figure out what I was doing and how to do it.

OTHER: I had an awesome time at work this week. I felt very accomplished when completing some of my tasks this week. I really hope I'm able to get a fulltime job with the County. I learn something new with them everyday and its really helping my professional experience grow.