Jackson D.W.

 Great news. I'm back in business. I had bought a used computer from a pawn shop but had to order a power cord. I wasn't expecting it until May 2nd but I got today on April 22nd. I am so excited and happy and back to where I left off in developing Windows apps.

 Great news. In the past, I have gotten some pretty good computers from the pawn shop. I went to one called Golden Goat Pawn Shop and bought a good HP for $150. I have to order a new power cord though and have ordered one from NewEgg.com.  It cost $30 and should be delivered no later than May 2nd. I am anxious to get back to doing C# app development. I should not have done this but I used my old HP power cable and it worked. The pc came up after updating and everything looks good. Will wait till my new power cable comes to use it. You can mess up a computer if you used a cable with the wrong voltage. I am so excited about this. Yeah, I was going to buy a $500 Dell computer but I decided to check out a pawn shop and it worked out.

 Because my HP laptop crashed, I have to buy a new laptop. The old one needs a new battery and hard drive. Fortunately, the repair shop I am working with will be able to copy my files from that pc.  I should have acted sooner on the battery issue, and I should have had backups to the cloud, using a solution like Carbonite.com. It will be several months before I can get another one or have the old one fixed. While I'm waiting to get it fixed, I am working on my new blog www.rapconstellation.com.

 Superphone, which was founded by Rapper Ryan Leslie, had a community investment webinar today. Ryan is very knowledgeable and he has a thorough understanding of investing and other biz related topics. Inspired me to go back and write a business plan and budget. Below are some screenshots not in order.

  Visit  https://appinventor.mit.edu/ . This Android IDE was created originally by Google and MIT took the project. You use the Chrome browser to build the UI and the Blocks backend for the app functionality.

 For those who want to learn C# I recommend this book by Jamie Chan

 I use classes from EssentialObjects.com to include a web browser in my Prince Fan 2 app. Their instructions were easy to follow. This feature has given my apps a touch of professionalism that I would not have without it. I would highly recommend it to developers despite the cost ($800). Anyway, check out my YouTube apps to see it.