Databases and EOE

It's been a while since I worked on the new version of EOE. Interviews and school sort of took over my time. Now going back to it and looking at the code I realize how oriented around databases it is.

I don't know when it happened, but apparently I'm a database developer now. The majority of my interviews were for jobs that primarily involved database work. Whether it was ADO.NET or PHP with MySQL, I got interviews for it. I suppose I shouldn't be that surprised, I've been working with databases for years, it's just odd how I sort of fell into it without realizing.

On a side note, after this Wednesday I should have time to work on EOE and get back into the OO code. Right now I got to build another class for listings and my mind just doesn't want to wrap around it because of my assignments that are due.

Once I get the listing class done and implement the listings the rest of the site should finish quickly. I wanted to get the listing class done before I finish with profile deletion because I want to run a check to see if that profile has listings. That way I can run through various tests without issue.

I sort of can't wait for the completion of the site. It's going to be the most user-oriented site I've coded, and I plan for it to only be the beginning. I want to create sites that can handle a lot of user generated content, it's sort of one of my main goals to do for 2010.

And I'm hoping once I switch to wordpress I can start writing more formal posts, perhaps have a separate section of like articles or deep thoughts/opinions. That way the site has a lot more reading appeal then me just talking about various TV shows and vague descriptions about my websites. Haha.

Unable To Relax

I've been thinking over some stuff lately and I realized that I'm sort of unable to relax. At least when it comes to school.

I'm always thinking what I need to do for school. If something is due in 2-3 weeks I'm still trying to sort out when to work on it. I can never stop thinking about the looming assignments or the date of midterms and finals. I don't really stop to think that I have extra time to concentrate on other things like my stories or websites.

Perhaps this is why I feel like I'm constantly busy... Albeit my schedule is pretty full but I do have more downtime then I realize. Now that I'm procrastinating a little on things I'm starting to realize that I'm not really procrastinating, I'm just planning out WAY too much time for what I want to do.

I need to find a good balance between thinking about school and thinking about side projects. Because now even as I type this I'm still thinking about my Calculus assignment due Thursday.

BAH

Wordpress

I've been messing around with various blogging tools for a while now and I think this blog move over to wordpress permanently. It'll give me a chance to learn how to properly create themes and not to mention it means this site will be hosted back on my host instead of on the google servers.

Mostly I just want to learn how to make themes, and think it will make sense the larger the blog becomes.

So my web development plan for the next month or so will consist of:

a.) Moving to wordpress and creating my first theme.
b.) EOE Version 2 which I will be moving over to http://eoe.onlyakiss.net instead of skys-content.com

Then after that I'm going to tackle the new skys-content.com which will be user oriented graphics site that allows various people to upload their graphics. And once that's set up I'll be creating a php app to make managing graphics/resources easy.

Alright. Sleep time. Ciao.

Layout?

So blogger just released a new Template Designer and I thought I'd try it out. For people who don't know much about web it has a lot of options and is easy to use. I figured that I'd keep this one up until I have time to make one myself. Which will hopefully be sometime later in the week. My Monday is killer but after that it's smooth sailing.

Some small notes:

I watched the whole first season of Glee. I don't really understand the hysteria around it. It's a good show but not AMAZING.

I found I'm slowly using my Ubuntu more and more. The only reason I'm on my windows right now is to edit an essay for English.

I've been playing BioShock 1 finally and all I can think about now is "Would you kindly?" like all the time. Omg.

True Blood Season 3 starts tonight! I'm so excited! :D!!!

That's about it for the small notes. TTYL.

From my iPod

This post is going to typed entirely on my iPod touch :o

I've had a busy week. 4 assignments and a midterm in about an hour. So I've spent a good amount of my time studying in the library, and I just think it's weird how you can sit around people for hours on end and not once ever talk or get to know them. Well sometimes you talk to them but about 99% of the time you don't.

It's interesting how so many people can sit in such close proximity of each other and never even look at each other.

Impossible Amount of Work

Have you ever felt like you had an impossible amount of work to complete within a specific time line? That's how I feel right now... I have no clue how I'm going to survive this upcoming week, I barely think I can survive Sunday without not finishing something...

Next week I have 3 assignments, CS 245 due Tuesday, CS 240 Wednesday and MATH 138 Thursday. A midterm on Thursday AND an interview on Monday. So far I've started the assignments due Tuesday and Thursday and started to study for my midterm.

Tomorrow (Sunday) is going to be essay and interview preparation day as I have to write a first draft of an Essay for 11:59pm Sunday night. Then on Monday I have my interview right after class, following the completion of my CS 246 assignment before 6pm. Then Monday night, Tuesday and Wednesday is various assignment work and midterm studying.

It feels like no matter how much I think through what to do, or how much I plan I'm going to implode come Thursday night. Unfortunately, if I do implode I need to pick myself up on the weekend as I have a midterm the following Monday...

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GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I need to go watch Gilmore Girls to calm myself down...

Driving and Stories

I feel like I should change the timezone on my blogger so the time on blog posts aren't always after midnight...

So now that I've gotten my license I've been driving to school everyday. It's about a 30-40 minute drive one way depending if I decide to go speed limit or a little faster (;P). Meaning I'm in the car for over an hour each day and I've observed somethings.

For instance, I know why my Dad says it's nicer to drive in the States then here because everyone is road raging or impatient. I can't count the number of times I've seen people turning left and a car crossing the intersection had to stop/slow down. Including once where I was making a right turn and a car across from me felt the need to rush their left turn, forcing me to stop completely even though I had the right of way.

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On another note I've decided to write Consequence, the book I plan to publish in first person from two different points of view. Third person albeit gives you all the views on a story usually lacks an emotional component. It's going to be interesting considering the two characters I've chosen are a.) male, and b.) have completely different personalities then me. So we'll see how that goes :p

Also, I've been working on Inner Demons, a short story based off a dream I had last December. Once it's done I'll be sure to post a link here so you guys can read it.

And lastly I've been engrossed by the youtube band ALLCAPS. Their songs are dance nerdy goodness. It's awesome.