Cuckoo for Haikus
It has been a damn productive week! The Daily Haiku Project went live, so to speak. Far from perfect, there’s plenty of things to fix and more additions I’d like to make down the road perhaps (a commenting system, for one). But it is up, and I encourage you to join the ranks and submit your own haiku!
Also completed is my Java 2 final project, Tapr. It’s a fairly simple program but it’s got some nice little knick-knacks for usability and such. Tuesday I present that bad boy, I’ll try to post some screencaps of it’s miracles soon.
And dragging in the caboose is Marquee, my support system for faculty advisors. It’s a funny thing about building these big web apps with a relational database model. You build all this framework for awesome stuff to happen… tables upon tables of classes people COULD take and departments that those classes COULD belong to, and professors that COULD teach those courses.. but a good deal of work goes into connecting the dots. What teacher is teaching which section of what course, from which semester? Meeting where? What building and room? What students are enrolled in those courses? Better still, what students have taken that class in the past and have a grade already assigned?
It’s a lot of data, especially for a developer. We tend to concern ourselves with what to do with the data, and not always the data itself, ya know? Definitely a lot learned (and a lot to be learned, still) from this project.
Also, I am pleased to announce I made Mommy & Daddy proud; I passed the Security+ exam. Therefore I can boast this on my site!:
Bwhahaha. The rest of my week sees me finishing out Marquee, and making a good show on one more final on Thursday. I cannot wait to set foot on Louisville soil again.
jotwell 12.28.2007 8:07pm
congrats :)
reflexbluestocking 12.59.2007 10:20am
Merry Christmas, Jon!