March has been a tiring month for me, and this week finally saw the submission of my MNO1001 Management and Organisation video project and report. I estimate that nearly 30 to 40 hours of effort have been put in by me alone, including five late nights in school where I stayed back until 11PM (which [...]
I’ve been really busy these last two weeks to say the least, but just thought I’d post something here since it’s the weekend anyway. I don’t have really much to write about, though, so I’ll just let you in on the happenings of this past fortnight. The first week was more or less spent on [...]
It’s the end of the recess week already, and I find myself entrenched in a backlog of self-revision. A common pattern has emerged this semester with respect to my homework management, and it’s not so much the fault of procrastination as it is the waning interest that I have in my modules. I guess my [...]
I found some time over the last week to rebuild WebsiteDB, my first PHP/MySQL project. The original site was very simple and quite poorly coded in my opinion, so I decided to redevelop it and include additional features in the process, such as account creation (for anyone remotely interested in using it) and also a [...]
As I previously anticipated, MySQL has proven to be a difficult language to learn. I’ve familiarised myself with most of the basic commands used to create and modify databases and tables, along with carrying out simple SELECT queries to retrieve data. I followed the examples provided in the book and I was honestly quite alarmed [...]
Assembla was introduced to me a few months back from one of my brothers, and it’s an online workspace designed for software development. It has typical collaborative features like wiki pages, discussion threads, file-sharing, milestones and also version control features like Subversion, Git and Mercurial. I didn’t have much experience using similar workspaces, and decided to [...]
One of the modules that I’m taking this semester is Introduction to Interactive Media Design (NM2216), and this module is actually a prerequisite of another that I initially wanted to take. As it turns out, this module hasn’t been all that fun or exciting that I had hoped it to be, and in fact the [...]