It definitely feels that the seasons are turning. Spring's first tentative days are here, even if it is still winter according to the calendar.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
First Signs of Spring
Over the weekend I did a bit of cleanup outside around the house. In front of the house in a flowerbed facing south, the first crocuses of the season bloomed.
It definitely feels that the seasons are turning. Spring's first tentative days are here, even if it is still winter according to the calendar.
It definitely feels that the seasons are turning. Spring's first tentative days are here, even if it is still winter according to the calendar.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Found Through Undisclosed Sources
A friend, Andrew Mull, who works at the university I'm attending, somehow stumbled across the following:
From the date on the photo, it appears to be in a Database Management System class I took in spring of 2007 with Dr. Gordon. The center student, in apparent deep thought, is yours truly. So far, that was the one class that I didn't do as well in. I got a "B". That is ironic, since databases are the one thing that I've worked with continuously my whole programming career. Perhaps my hubris, or circumstances around switching jobs mid-semester, had something to do with my performance in that class. No matter, I still learned enough to make that class worthwhile.
Apparently this photo was in a large collection that the university has for the university website. Andrew quickly assured me that the university only picks photos of photogenic students to actually use on the web. He meant of course that no one ever saw the photo on the official university website ... We had a good laugh.
From the date on the photo, it appears to be in a Database Management System class I took in spring of 2007 with Dr. Gordon. The center student, in apparent deep thought, is yours truly. So far, that was the one class that I didn't do as well in. I got a "B". That is ironic, since databases are the one thing that I've worked with continuously my whole programming career. Perhaps my hubris, or circumstances around switching jobs mid-semester, had something to do with my performance in that class. No matter, I still learned enough to make that class worthwhile.
Apparently this photo was in a large collection that the university has for the university website. Andrew quickly assured me that the university only picks photos of photogenic students to actually use on the web. He meant of course that no one ever saw the photo on the official university website ... We had a good laugh.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Touch of Melancholy
Winter is dying down, the days get longer, but the cold winds still blow. We had some snow yesterday. Can't wait for the warmer weather. There is still much to do with work and class. Feels like running a marathon, hiking a half century or cycling a full one. Can't help feeling a little worn down. While programming and listening to music, Robert Plant & Alisson Krauss cover of Townes Van Zandt's "Nothin'" happened to play.
Managed to get the essential programming utilities reinstalled on the new home machine. The install was fairly straight forward. Thought about using the GNU tools via Darwin Port or MacPorts, but decided just use the XCode install from a download disk-image. Yes that means its a ADC (Apple Developer Center) install, not quite Open Source like I'm used to but it is close enough for classwork. The annoying thing about the target machine, which is the final arbiter of program correctness, is that it does not have rsync on it. Since it is not one I have admin rights on, a different way had to be found. That makes file transfers a bit more painful, but no worry. A bit of minor scripting with scp solves the problem nicely. Even did a bit of sanity checking and remote target directory inference based on the present working directory to minimize housekeeping and prevent copy foul ups. Now the environment is a bit more comfortable. That should speed up the development cycle.
Managed to get the essential programming utilities reinstalled on the new home machine. The install was fairly straight forward. Thought about using the GNU tools via Darwin Port or MacPorts, but decided just use the XCode install from a download disk-image. Yes that means its a ADC (Apple Developer Center) install, not quite Open Source like I'm used to but it is close enough for classwork. The annoying thing about the target machine, which is the final arbiter of program correctness, is that it does not have rsync on it. Since it is not one I have admin rights on, a different way had to be found. That makes file transfers a bit more painful, but no worry. A bit of minor scripting with scp solves the problem nicely. Even did a bit of sanity checking and remote target directory inference based on the present working directory to minimize housekeeping and prevent copy foul ups. Now the environment is a bit more comfortable. That should speed up the development cycle.
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