Recently I had to reinstall 2003 on my server at home, which was home to my BG Alert SVN server. I vaguely remembered setting SVN up about a year ago, so I had to put my trust into Google. Unfortunately, there wasn’t one site that helped with the whole setup. Since I don’t want you to have to deal with that, I’ve put all the information here, in one post.

To get started, you will need to download subversion, the current version is 1.4.5. Make sure you select the setup.exe to download for the newest version as well.

Once you’ve downloaded and installed subversion on the server, create a directory for your repositories. This can be done in Windows Explorer or from the command prompts with the mkdir command (mkdir C:\repositories). You will also need to give the NT AUTHORITY\NetworkService account appropriate rights to the directory you create. If you forget to grant access, you might get denied when Read the rest of this entry »

In addition to being a student at Neumont, I own a company named BG Alert, L.L.C. It provides parents of type 1 diabetics with ease of mind by keeping them up to date on their child’s blood glucose levels while at school, at a friend’s house, basically anywhere without parents. The child enters in their blood glucose level and sometimes some other important information about their health and they get an instant response from the database that instructs them what to do based on the numbers entered.

The best thing about this system is the parents create these messages and they are custom based on the time of day and their blood sugar at that time in the day. Once the system tells the child what to do, it sends an email and a text message to the parent(s). This eliminates the need for the parent to call the school every hour to see what’s going on and to tell them what to do. It allows the parents to have more freedom and not worry as much.

Right now, the website is not complete, but getting there. The ETA on completion is May 6th. The database is created as are most of the stored procedures used in it. The data and business layers are about 70% done as of tonight and the website has a layout that just needs the company’s copy and forms entered into. Fortunately, I’ve been able to have help from some of my good friends:

1. Josh Arnold
2. Dan Marolt
3. Ryan Abreu
4. Tommy English

Without these 4 guys, I would have an ETA of May 6th next year! If you have the opportunity to work with any of them, jump on that chance, you will not regret it.

Also, if you know of any parents of type 1 diabetics, tell them about my site and give them my email address (mike@bgalert.com), I’m going to need testers soon!

One of the problems with people like me is I don’t remember to turn things in. I’ll finish the assignment a few days early and then I’ll start working on something else. The next week, someone asks what I got on said assignment and I remember…I never turned it in! This will all change at the end of this quarter. Our group is creating two things:

1. A module that can be used by anyone to create applications that can securely access Neumont’s Learning Management System (LMS), called RemoteLMS.
2. An application that a student can install on their computer that will use pop-up notifications from the system tray that tell the students when assignments have been graded or a teacher has posted lecture notes to the LMS and many other types of notifications, called DesktopLMS.

DLMS will allow for students to receive text messages and email alerts as well for due dates. A student will be allowed to tell the system to send them a text message 2 hours before the assignment is due.

We are hoping this project is something that everyone at Neumont will find useful. We are also planning on keeping it an open project on Sourceforge so other’s can help us add onto it after the initial application has been released. This is a project we all see continuing after the quarter is over.