Part of a series: Fall 2011 - Winter 2012 - Fall 2012 - Winter 2013Welcome to my twice-yearly post about “What I Did This Semester”. Hopefully this will be the last one for at least a few years, unless I’m back in school just for the heck of it because I struck oil or won the lottery or something ( Read more... )

Part of a series: Fall 2011 - Winter 2012 - Fall 2012 - Winter 2013

Class

Description

Grade

APPD 2000
Mobile Application Development
98

INET 2005
Web Application Development I
100

INFT 2000
Professional Development
98

INFT 2100
Project Management
98

PROG 2100
Programming C++
98

WEBD 3102
Java, Enterprise Edition
96

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Part of a series: Fall 2011 - Winter 2012 - Fall 2012 - Winter 2013

Class

Description

Grade

APPD 1001
User Interface Design and Development
100

DBAS 1100
Database Development I
100

HDWR 1000
Hardware I
100

INFT 1300
Human Relations for the IT Professional
97

OSYS 1000
Operating Systems - Unix
100

PROG 1400
Introduction to ( Read more... )

Part of a series: Fall 2011 - Winter 2012 - Fall 2012 - Winter 2013

Class

Description

Grade

COMM 1100
Technical Communications
95

DBAS 1001
Introduction to Databases
100

INFT 1000
Foundations in IT
98

NETW 1100
Networking I
100

PROG 1100
Programming I
99

WEBD 1000
Website Development
99

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Back when I was in PEI for a week, about two weeks ago, I got a phone call from my doctor's administrative assistant advising me that my ultrasound had been scheduled for the day after the next. Uh-oh! I told her that I was still in PEI - in fact, I told her before she booked that I'd be in PEI until Labour Day. Not that I'm annoyed with her - I'm ( Read more... )

I had a reasonably productive day yesterday. First, I took the car to a garage and got the heater switch replaced with something that works and that won’t burn one’s fingers. Apparently the wires behind the switch were rotten and arcing. In retrospect I could also have called around to various junkyards in search of a working climate control module ( Read more... )

Our first class of the day was cancelled, as the prof had a death in her family. Before we knew why it was cancelled, one fellow was more than a little irritated because he’d been running late, so he caught a cab to get to the class on time ( Read more... )

I left the house at 8:00 and was involved in even more stop-and-go than yesterday. I got stuck behind a mini-jam at Bedford Elementary Academy (a private school for the semi-privileged) before I even got down to the Bedford Highway, which itself was backed up even before Kearney Lake Road. In my experience, the traffic in Halifax hits the peak of ( Read more... )

I left the house at 7:45 and was involved in more stop-and-go than I would have liked, but I suppose that can be easily corrected with an earlier departure ( Read more... )

Honestly? After seeing NSCC-IT, I wanted to kiss the grass at Saint Mary's. There's nothing wrong with the place - but it lacks a few of the university-standard creature comforts, like:

- A full-blown gym / athletic facility. (Not that it needs one... but it should be noted that their exercise room is really just a room - and the shower (I mean " ( Read more... )