Fourth Job

Fourth Job April 20, 2014

This is my fourth meeting with my mentor. It has been a while since the last time we worked. This sunday, we started off picking and sorting the pictures. It was pretty basic so my mentor let me do all the job for that day. He only helped me with renaming the pictures. We created folders and labeled them according to what page they are for. I put them all in one main folder which we named "assets". We chose the pictures and put them in their appropriate folders. We renamed all the pictures with the puppies' names. I didn't know that we had to rename all the pictures. But my mentor told me that by changing its names, the names of the pictures will show as you point the cursor on the pictures on the website. Anyway, it started to become frustrating because I mixed up all the names. I missed one name, so I had to go back to where I messed up and redo everything from there. It took me a little long because there were a lot of pictures. My mentor suggested me to stop every once in a while because he said that looking at the screen for too long can damage your eyes. He told me to look at something far every 30 minutes. After all the frustrations, it was worth it. My mentor's wife made us some frozen chocolate shake and sandwiches. The shake was so refreshing and relieving. In our next meeting, we are planning to make our own banner. We decided to download all the backgrounds and pictures that we can use to make a banner for our business site. He said that in our next meeting, he is going to teach me how to use Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to make our banner. I wasn't expecting that we are going to edit some pictures, but he said that it's a part of being a web designer. It wasn't what he majored in, though. He said that he was also taught some of it put just the basics. I really want to learn how to do photoshop! I'm starting to imagine how I'm going to be like when I actually work as an IT. We didn't talk about when we are going to do the banner since his availability is not predictable because the company that he works for calls him whenever they need him. But since it's my spring break, he said he's going to try to work longer with me because he might leave for North Carolina for his job there. And it made me feel a little sad because he said that we might not be able to finish the website by the time of the presentation comes. I really hope that we get this done. But I think that we will still work on this after he comes back from North Carolina.

Time logged for this session: 6 hrs

Total time logged: 22 hrs

Third Meeting

Third Meeting, Third Job April 12, 2014

Last saturday, I met with my mentor at 2pm in the afternoon to pick up the pictures that we are going to put onto the website. He was nice to pick me up, too. On our way to the place where we were to pic the photos up, me and my mentor were talking about how we're going to pick the pictures. And since we are going to make an online store, we are going to put the parent of the line. The parent of the line is the breeder of the dogs that we are going to be selling on the website. The nice shots from the dog shows that the breeder has been are the one that are going to be on the main page and gallery. I could already picture in my head how we are going to lay it out, though. Then, we are going to seperate the photos of the dogs based on age and gender. Since the pictures, he said, are updated, there shouldn't be any problem with labeling them and the owner is going to give us the list of the puppies' age and gender. Later on, we got to a restaurant called Pampanga's Cuisine, which is a popular filipino restaurant in the Bay Area. I was thinking that he was just going to buy something from there. But, the owner of that restaurant is the one that we are going to make the website for. He's a close friend of my mentor. I really love that restaurant because their food is so good. Anyway, my mentor had a hard drive with him where he put all the pictures. He said that by putting the pictures in the hard drive instead of sending it through the cloud keeps the photos' resolution high. And he also wanted to introduce me to him. It's been fun working with my mentor because he doesn't treat me as a student or someone he's doing a favor for. And plus, I meet people like the owner of that filipino restaurant. It took us a while because we picked some pictures and some of them crashed. Since the pictures are in high resolution, it sort of took a little while to be transferred. It took us an hour to pick the pictures and another to transfer them because it crashed half way through it. I also learned that some harddrives, when paired with a fast computer, transfer files faster than the regular ones. We got like 350 pictures. And before we left, the owner let us eat in the restaurant for free, which was my best part! Haha! Then, we went to my mentor's house to sort all the pictures and put them in different specific folders. It was kind of hard because we cant just look at the pictures to know which is which because most of them look almost the same. We actually had to read the titles of the pictures. But it became easier towards the end since you can arrange the files in alphabetical order. I really loved that job because first, I got to meet the restaurant's owner, and second, the dogs look so cool. And what I'm really excited about is that the owner said that he'll take me and my mentor to his house to show his dogs. I bet that would be so fun! Anyway, after all that work, the day is about to end for us. At around 8pm, me and my mentor headed to my house where we watched the Manny Pacquiao and Timothy Bradley fight. We also talked about our next meeting. He said that we are going to decide which picture goes to where. We are going to rename the pictures according to what they are for. We decided to do it the next day which was on sunday. Seeing all the pictures that are going to be on the website, and how cool they are, gets me more excited!

Time logged for this session: 5 hrs

Total time logged: 16 hrs