LMAO.. Sorry I asked....Did you forget your medicine again?



>>HOLY CORNHUSKS BATMAN!
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>>I thought you died, moved on, etc.
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>>Where you been?
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>Passing out flyer's on "why I'm so cool" and looking for a bar of soap and my catcher's mitt!
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>I have been in the world SCORM - Mr.Baird - a world of pain - JavaScript, DHTML, ISAPI, VFP COM, VFP GUI, XML, client script function containers (aka API's), the world of rollup objectives, global objectivesn, metaphors, tokens, rule action sequences and sub-manifests - I HAVE BEEN IN PAIN.
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>I've been in a hole for three years designing a "Shared Content Object Reference Model Runtime Environment" based on an IMSSS Simple Sequencing e-Learning consortium (Advanced Design Learning) open source APACHE,JAVA (classes), JSP and APACHE XML DOM "sample RTE". I read so much .Java source I wished I could have eased up and read some C#. if .Java don't kill you, 3 day old spam in the cat box will!
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>I have read, as my mentors at the ADL cheered me on, about 15,000 Pages - I read some PDFs (200 pagers+) ten times at least. My biggest fear, failure. I felt like a zero brain for about 18 months.
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>I asked a million stupid questions. I asked a few meaningful ones.
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>My mentors (the vendors and beaurocrats) kept persuading "read - grasshopper - read - out of darkness shall come light". SO I did. In the last days as I considered a suitable Hari Kari, when I had turned the pages to the point of collapse, a great "congealiation" occured. My noddle wettened - at that moment - I realized - I better get to the bathroom - not realy, I realized I KNEW SCORM!
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>The consortium gives you a description of each tree in an as yet unvisualized forest. Your job, should you decide to take it, would be to memorize each description of each tree (thousands) and then build a fully functional forest that will pass the rigors of the consortiums certification trials. Easy .. right.
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>If I was smart - I would have figured out two years ago I was too stupid to do it. It ate me up - vanity - I would have hated to look at myself had I failed to "grasp" a concept described by government engineers. Utter failure!:-)
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>It was with great releif that I spent the next 3 months writing specifications, describing the data dictionary and so called RTE - which consists of a command processor, a rules engine, a VFP server and a JavaScript API
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>I made a mole hill out of a mountain! Why the government's version is so bulky and wordy I'll never know! An act of faith. You have to believe that focusing on minute meaningless details day in and day out will make sense - make the world a better place - get hit on by babes at Wal Mart - anything - after you read that book and [about] 8 others about 10 more times.
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>No math - Just Logic - get it - logic - in perfectly and fully reduced iambic pentameter. No machinery! No immediate gratification from seeing your GUI glow that perfect shade of hot pink when a button is pressed!
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>I developed a VFP GUI that parsed an XML to some OCX, and, of all things, it constructed a string of DHTML tags - a DHTML tree view - besed on a so call imsmanifest.xml file - amazing stuff.
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>The APACHE RTE had session state managers, a mutlti-threaded XML - that maintained the state through session ID's and some weird so called Java Applet (implemented as an APACHE ActiveX).
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>I reduced it down to just JavaScript, DHTLML, a VFP COM and a VFP Gui - and a four frame IE browser - and of course - the incredible, one of a kind, function container object, ta daaa daaaa - a JavaScript implementation of IEE's API_1184_14.
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>I WAS IN PAIN - bato!
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>So I am resting up and coming back here to "F" with you guys until I catch my breath - then - I guess - it's off to collect my Nobel Prize - right?. It's seems like it's been getting a little soft here - like you guys are cutting back on the ginko - or sterno - it needs some heating up - I think it's time Michele asked some old bad boys back!
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>Oh - I forgot - there was also a CMI object!
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>So what's been going on - except for the VFP "contest" I never heard about!?"