Posted on: May 21st, 2009 by Famous Phil

Although I wanted to write much of the following content a few weeks ago when I was packing to go home for the summer, I was strapped for time.  Therefore, I’m making this post now.

Moveout

At the end of every semester, I always try to get out of UB a few days early to beat the last minute move out rush, and this year was no exception.  I was fully packed and ready to go about a day in advance.  After last year’s fiasco, I thought that having a covered trailer instead of an uncovered truck bed would be a much more efficient way to move out and protect my stuff from mother nature’s worst.  Last year’s move out brought thunderstorms and a lot of rain which complicated move out a lot (not to mention that I got completely soaked during the move out and remained soaked through the hour and a half ride home.  I said to my father, “never again without a covered trailer”!

Luckily, this year, we had no rain (I looked at the forecast days ahead of time and actually moved the date once) and we had a nice big covered trailer.  The move out process this year went very smooth!  Just one minor nose bleed later that night that was caused by the dry air and elevation change going home.  Unpacking was also very easy since we had space all set.

Lets move onto college text books

Every year brings the same old problem, I buy books at the beginning of the semester for my classes: cost: “arm and a leg”.  I return my books to the bookstore at the end of the semester: recovered funds: “next to nothing”.  If you are a college student, you probably know exactly what I mean!

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Posted on: April 12th, 2009 by Famous Phil

Happy Easter to all of you reading my blog today, or Happy late Easter to all of you who read it in the near future

Unfortunately, today won’t be all that happy since I am doing the normal Sunday chores like laundry and cleaning up after myself with stuff that I’m too lazy to care about during the week.  My weekends are generally less hectic than my weeks, but with all the work I end up doing during a single week, I do let stuff go.

Anyways, Today I will be finishing up a Java Chatroom and Erlang Chatroom for my CSE305 programming class that is due tomorrow.  I intend on releasing this script on Friday to dev.matthouse.us along with a few older projects that I have completed like a Trie in Prolog (Yes, you can make a trie in a logical language).  I also will be doing a lot of French homework which will prepare me for my final exam in a few weeks.

It is amazing how the semester is coming to a close.  I only have a few more weeks of classes then its the summer and I will begin working on websites, in particular: eberlecontracting.com and retreadproducts.com.  If all goes well, I hope to have those both redesigned and finalized by June 1, 2009.

So there you have it   I hope your Easter is a bit more relaxing than mine is going to be, if not, I feel your pain!

Happy Happy!

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Posted on: February 10th, 2009 by Famous Phil

Over the past week or so, I’ve been getting extremely busy with my normal college workload that is a fact of any Computer Science Major’s college career.  Over the past week, I’ve learned 5 new languages in a project for my programming languages class.  Those languages are ML, Lisp, Erlang, Prolog, and Ruby.  I’ve done limited Ruby in the past, however I have never done any string parsing operations until this project.  I’m confident I’ve finished this project fully and I intend on posting it somewhere on my homework section after I receive my grade for this project.

In addition to my programming class, I’m taking French, Algorithms, and Probability.  Of the three, French takes about 3 hours of my week for homework, probability takes about 4 hours of my week reading the book so I know whats going on, and I put about an hour a week into my Algorithms course so I know something when the test comes later this month.

Now that you have an idea of what I’m doing for college, lets move onto AdminReference.  In my free time, I’ve been looking at numerous design ideas for the site.  I’ve pretty much made up my mind that it will contain a main site and a forum.  The main site will simply be an introduction to what the site is about, while the forum will be where community members will be able to interact with each other.  The service will be free unlike experts exchange because I want an easy reference thats freely available to anyone who needs it.  Initially the site will be ad free, however if traffic grows so much that I need to put a lot of funds into the site, I may insert an ad or two although I am not a fan of advertisements on websites (I feel they slow the site down and hurt its appearence).  Eventually after some content is added to the site, I may work on making a wiki-like interface where tutorials on the forum (or whatever guides are posted) will automatically be tied into a dynamic electronic reference manual that is easily searchable.

Thats all that I really have time to blog about for today, so stay tuned for the next blog within a week

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