Finally, time to start working

As you may have noticed it's been a month and 11 days since my last post and not even I'm usually this negligent of my blog.

However, here at uni it's been exams and coursework galore! I had to finish an 11 week group project one week, the next I had to finish a server side programming project (swanky flight/hotel booking system) and then after that I had 8 hours worth of exams spread thankfully over 2 weeks.
The first exam, Computer Systems, went well but then I'm a computer geek. The others were business things like Human Resource management and Statistics and Modelling which aren't fun or interesting either :(

All done now though so I now have a whole two weeks before I'm meant to start a proper job.
In these two blissful weeks of no lectures, exams or work I'll hopefully be able to do some coding for myself for once!

Plans would be to tidy up PIntEd a bit and try and shove it out the doors, maybe take a look at FlashHacker too.
On the web side I could do with starting Palmnet v3 properly. I only have plans for now so I need to think them over some more and start laying out plans for the code. The end result should be that my site will be like a brand new site. I'll have to give up some Google ranking to do it as my site needs some important re-organising though. At the start Palmnet was just a fun little thing I had, then I slowly built on it more and more but I never planned for the future. Meaning I now have a tangled mess of links, cross links, scripts and folders. If people saw the directory structure without .htaccess redirects they'd cry! That and I have no easy way to link things. I plan on making it so I can just blog in a category and it show up on the software site and if I start naming things right I could add all sorts of wonders, like versioning control and documentation.

That'll all take some time however as I only have two weeks, and they'll be filled with more than sat round coding, and then after that I'll be working this summer. If all goes well though I should have most of it planned in a few days, and then refined over the next month or so. That'll mean I only have to code, and coding is easy when you have plans first.

Enough about my site though, what about things to keep you occupied in the mean time? Well, have some news:

  • Mini Polls are still popular as ever, which is cool.
  • Remember the new shout boxes, codenamed MNAH? Well I do still work on them. They have a working RSS feed now and the image based stuff is started but not done yet. I plan on doing a bit of restructuring however, which will delay them even more!
  • Raycasting ring any bells? If so you'll be glad to hear I used the university library here the other day and now have a couple of books full of all sorts of interesting stuff, so expect some more graphics stuff soon.
  • It's my birthday on the 21st, hope you all buy me nice stuffs, yeah? icon_razz



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