960: Made to freeze
Fridays, or LongDays as they will now be called, aren't my particular favourites. I remembered this morning at just past 2am that I have a 10am lecture (and my last at that time for this semester) - and of course would require being up by 8.30. That ruined the entire day, as the six hours of sleep barely kept me awake through the 10am lecture. When the 12 lecture started, I was literally fighting to stay awake. After two hours of that, then the next hour of Symbolic Reasoning where I feel I might have nodded of a couple of times. Finally it was 3, and now out of the horrors of sleepy lectures, I proceeded to the computer lab, and got on with some programming for my systems analysis and design project.
For some reason, we have a serious restriction on our project - not only must this "website" be done in Java - not the first language I would have chosen, it has to be done using CGI. I.e. the web developer's worst nightmare. What I've done over about 10 hours of work so far, I could have done in 5 minutes in a language more suited - like PHP. We finally got access to our MySQL database today (the network administrator hates me - I asked thrice (and twice more when he was not available) and was rejected each time) and spent an hour trying to get Java to use the MySQL libraries. Then it turned out that whilst it worked on Windows, the CGI (run from Linux) just didn't want to import the MySQL library. To make matters worst, because it was CGI - we get absolutely no helpful message of what went wrong. In fact, because its a CGI Wrapper, we don't even get an error log. Its "fail" or nothing. After working for about three hours, I got the code to let a user login, and then go to the main menu. Yes, this was the result of quite a FEW hours' work.
Left at 6, returned home to find out the rep about the place we might be living next year - 10 seconds down the road (its new though!) and apparently it's looking good, for exactly the same price. We might be going in for some of that soon! Same people running it though.... and they have been less than helpful, so I'm hoping it's not as bad as this year's been. Also, the Tesco Express that's 5 seconds from my door (in between this new flat and our current flat) is set to open within the next two weeks. It is like the ULTIMATE in convenience. I also hear we're getting a Union bar here too... can't complain at that. They need to sort out the area's suckiness!
The good news today is that Odin Sphere, the game I've been avidly waiting for, but had almost given up hope on ever receiving a European release - is, you guessed it, getting a release! And strangely enough, being published by Square Enix - Atlus usually relegates EU publishing to smaller companies, but here we are!
Robotics question paper to be completed by Wednesday, the aforementioned Systems Analysis and Design project to be demonstrated on Friday (and then handed in the following Monday) then the next Monday is the prolog assignment handin, and finally on Friday 21st, the Haskell hand-in. Whew.... *sigh*
Saturday 22nd? Might finally get some Christmas-ing.
For some reason, we have a serious restriction on our project - not only must this "website" be done in Java - not the first language I would have chosen, it has to be done using CGI. I.e. the web developer's worst nightmare. What I've done over about 10 hours of work so far, I could have done in 5 minutes in a language more suited - like PHP. We finally got access to our MySQL database today (the network administrator hates me - I asked thrice (and twice more when he was not available) and was rejected each time) and spent an hour trying to get Java to use the MySQL libraries. Then it turned out that whilst it worked on Windows, the CGI (run from Linux) just didn't want to import the MySQL library. To make matters worst, because it was CGI - we get absolutely no helpful message of what went wrong. In fact, because its a CGI Wrapper, we don't even get an error log. Its "fail" or nothing. After working for about three hours, I got the code to let a user login, and then go to the main menu. Yes, this was the result of quite a FEW hours' work.
Left at 6, returned home to find out the rep about the place we might be living next year - 10 seconds down the road (its new though!) and apparently it's looking good, for exactly the same price. We might be going in for some of that soon! Same people running it though.... and they have been less than helpful, so I'm hoping it's not as bad as this year's been. Also, the Tesco Express that's 5 seconds from my door (in between this new flat and our current flat) is set to open within the next two weeks. It is like the ULTIMATE in convenience. I also hear we're getting a Union bar here too... can't complain at that. They need to sort out the area's suckiness!
The good news today is that Odin Sphere, the game I've been avidly waiting for, but had almost given up hope on ever receiving a European release - is, you guessed it, getting a release! And strangely enough, being published by Square Enix - Atlus usually relegates EU publishing to smaller companies, but here we are!
Robotics question paper to be completed by Wednesday, the aforementioned Systems Analysis and Design project to be demonstrated on Friday (and then handed in the following Monday) then the next Monday is the prolog assignment handin, and finally on Friday 21st, the Haskell hand-in. Whew.... *sigh*
Saturday 22nd? Might finally get some Christmas-ing.