From the South…
To the North again. I’ve been too occupied these past couple of weeks to post here, instead I’ve been getting settled in my new house.
It’s taken about a week to get a phone line and internet connection in which limited my web browsing to library sessions and the slower-than-dialup connection on my phone. On the plus side, it’s a 30 minute walk from my house to the library building so I’ve been getting plenty of exercise in the process! Luckily we’re less than 1km from the telephone exchange so I’ve finally got a 20 meg link to the outside world that doesn’t drop out every half hour (home is 1.6 meg on a good day).
Speaking of excercise I’ve signed myself up for a yearly swim membership at the local gym along with James (of www.ratssawgod.com). I’m thinking 3 times a week before lectures would be a good plan, though initially it’s probably going to result in me sleeping though all the morning lectures!
On the technical side, I’m going to pitch in with as much development work as possible before the SEG (Software Engineering Project) work starts in a month or so. It’s a group project in which 5-6 people plan, design and develop a commercial-grade application which is then tested and given a grade. Once that gets going I’ll need to put any EduGeek projects on hold for a while but thankfully both are at a pretty stable stage right now so I can continue to provide small patches and fixes.
Finally, I’m committing myself to blogging more often. I know people who aim to post daily but in my opinion that’s not sustainable in the long term and promotes short snippets rather than meaningful prose. I’ll be trying to write something interesting 2 to 3 times per week either on technical topics or anything that’s caught my eye.
3 Comments
Good luck with that (bloging weekly), any idears on your application and what it it would run on?
It needs to be done in Java so it’ll be multi-platform. As for the concept we’re not sure – it has to be complex enough to do some calculations based on the maths we learnt last year. Business apps are popular, as are basic 3D graphics programs.
whats the licencing like once you have finished development? does it remain the property of your uni? or are you able to market and sell the product after?
if so, a small ERP system that allows stock tracking, PO,invoices,etc would be pretty cool. we changed our system recently, and although ours is alot more up scale, i think there is a market for small scale ERP for start up companys,etc..
would be intrested in hearing what your development project is going to be! will be keeping a little eye on it