Exam Results
Well, with semester over, I can sit back and have a play around with other things. I have managed to muscle my way into a community project at CriticalSecurity.net, which could be interesting if we get it to work. I want to engineer the thing properly though, while the head of the project has just started hacking something random together in BASH that I personally don't think is going to cut it. I'm tempted to just stick with C/C++ at this stage, but we'll see where it goes, as it can only rely on minimal libraries which are distributed with the community distro.
Results came out on the 1st, I got a distinction in design, a credit in formal methods and also concurrency, and a pass in maths, which means I can keep going with my study of distributed systems comfortably :) Next semester I'm doing software analysis, the software engineering project mandated for all 3rd years, parallel systems and artificial intelligence. I have a feeling I'm going to be having a lot of fun next semester :)
I've also started on a website so I can have a play around with some Java applets and use it as a distribution point for design documents and any code I decide to put out there, maybe starting with my IRC bot written on top of the pIRCbot framework and the Connector/J database driver. I'm going to have to fix up the queries so tables are created if they don't exist, but it has a reasonable GUI interface, which will need some work before I bump it up to v1. But anyway, also attended my first live training session the other morning (I'm talking about 4:30am morning, not this wussy 7am I keep hearing about :P) which covered GlassFish. I'm very very very excited to get started with it and JavaEE :)
Not much else to report, I'm bored out of my mind. I thought I would use this holiday as an excuse to catch up with Dawn of War, but I haven't really felt the urge to play it :/ So I've been coding, F5-ing on /., furthering my GIMP skills and just brushing up on other acquired knowledge. Can't wait until I start on a Sun project later in the break :) Should be an awesome experience
Posted at 02:42PM Dec 05, 2008 by Stephen Gream in Personal | Comments[0]