This week has been super productive. Since Monday, we decided to completely change our gadget. The connectivity gadget was getting so complicated in the sense that we didn’t know how to make it accurate enough to be useful, and also to make it exciting enough for people to actually use it. We decided to create an SMS gadget that will work directly with exchange. We figured that since the new product we are working on called exchange labs will target more college students initially, this would be a perfect gadget. Plus, we contacted the SMS messaging team located in china and they sent us a reply with a  link to the class they used to implement SMS messaging in the online email access client that exchange has, as well as links to sites giving tips on how to implement the SDK which we downloaded for using an ID to log onto the server. So today we finally got a server specifically for developing our gadget, as well as access to the entire source code library for exchange! It took almost two hours to download all the files to my machine. Its just crazy that all the super confidential Exchange source code is on my machine. So anyways, for the next few days it will just be a lot of researching technologies. Its like we got over one hill, and are now sitting at the bottom of a brand new, even bigger hill. We have to learn a whole new set of skills and technologies in order to complete the next part of the project. We are however, making progress.

So for the cooking, I am getting better. We cooked a full meal for the first time the other night. We have some friends that make fun of how often we make frozen pizzas when they come over, so we decided to prove that we can actually cook. We made my moms lasagna, green beans, salad, garlic bread, and cheesecake…and it was really good!!! They were so impressed, and we had lots of fun.

Making Lasagna 

Our pretty table!

We had ducks come to our back porch.

This was our group on the beach at sunset

At the bar-b-Que. after the beach