December 15-19

Monday: 12:25-1:47
Tuesday: 12:25-1:47
Wednesday: 12:25-1:47
Thursday: 12:55-2:30
Friday: 12:55-2:15

   The first half of the week consisted of all activity period schedules. So, on Monday, I went to a meeting with Dr. Murray to explore one of the possible options the school has for re-wiring the school's wifi hotspots. Due to the approaching holiday season, Byte Club held a Christmas party this week as well. Then, later in the week, I could finally start to look at our options for restarting the app and doing some research on cyber security. I am leaning towards using PhoneGap, because it is only an API, therefore you can use any IDE it is compatible with. It is also open source, so we won't run into the price issue that we might have with other IDE's. Finally, PhoneGap is based in HTML, which most of our team is familiar with, and is easy to learn more about to boot. Of course, I will have to run it by the rest of the team before we get started, but I think it is our best option. Hopefully over break, we can have a meeting to decide what to use to code the app, and begin to do so.
     This week reflects the attitude of the holidays for me. As it is the last full week before Christmas break, teachers are starting to slow the flow of work. I took some time this week to tie up some loose ends before the holiday. There was not too much work done, but this week serves as a reminder that breaks are a necessary evil. They may be bad for production, but they are good to take so you can return to the job with a fresh perspective and attitude.