Jeff

stuff

So I have been sitting around wasting time this past week. I have been reminded a few times that I need to post in this more often. I will probably do it more when I start working, and probably even more when I finally move into my own place. I have made no progress on the Django overhaul since finishing, this is probably due to the inability to use my desktop for much since the wireless sucks in my room for it. I will probably try and finish the styling some before trying to implement the code for that stuff. I need to first come up with a footer before I develop the content for that as well. Should I try and come up with a logo for the site ? sigh I need to sit down and come up with some bullet points for things I need to do. (which I have done a few times and lost the unsaved files whenever I restart)

In other news, I have graduated, I walked across stage and got the diploma. I start work in a week. I get to do javascript GUI development right off the bat. I started summer league for ultimate frisbee, so hopefully that can get me into some shape. I need to finish cleaning my room up, even though that will probably never actually get done until I move out. I am in the midst of deciding on a cell phone carrier and transferring the title of the car over to myself. I am going to be moving to living off of my credit card somewhat for a few weeks until I get my first paycheck. Then I can begin shopping for my new computer (I am so excited). I got to attend the race yesterday (the Indy 500) and enjoy the sights and sounds of fast cars racing around a giant oval track.

This coming week I hope to try and get the cell phone stuff decided on and get the title transferred. I then need to finish cleaning. I am going to try and plan to meet some friends here before I get busy with work. I may stop by my old high school (if it is still in session) and see my old teachers. I doubt it is though, so I will probably end up doing that in the fall. I hope to begin transforming the design of this site into the complete thing this week (like moving the design to all the sections and finish all the sections up, then making it better suited for larger resolutions and such). Beyond all that, I just need to enjoy my last week of freedom and boredom.

django goodness

So I am probably about 50% through converting the journal on this site into Django. It is quite a magnificent piece of web development stuff. I barely need any code to accomplish stuff. The only major hindrance will be in migrating the databases over. I need to migrate them because I have been utilizing some of the great database models Django gives me that require me to re-enter parts of the entry. I also need to try and update to the latest version of Django on my server (or just wait for a few months until I get a better server OS) so that I can establish the relative link formation better. I still need to figure out the form handling which looks very clean and helpful. I will eventually move the set up into Apache as it is currently running through the dev server built into the framework. I may have time this weekend as we are getting to a slow down point in our senior design project and my software engineering project is going to be a joke with how well I am getting with Django right now. I really want to spend a good amount of time doing this Django code right, I am hoping to make the set up very clean and easy to maintain and expand.

work time

So we have our PCB soldered together, which means its time for some software! This means I get the honor of working a lot these next two weeks trying to wrap up the preliminary software for our craft. I am looking forward to getting this all working because it is going to be awesome when it works. This is a fact. I get to learn control algorithms and spend lots of time doing trial and error getting different implementations working correctly. The joy is overwhelming.

In other news, I still don’t have a job. I am going to have to begin pressing a few of my leads and see if they bear any fruit or whether I should begin the desperation effort. I really hate being at this point and still unemployed, I really hate it. I spent all night last Thursday/Friday working for my job and hopefully giving myself a better chance at working there. I just wish I could get something from them soon and stop sitting in the dark. I will probably request a status sometime this week…

I am beginning to want to work some more on this site. But I really don’t want to. I need my efforts to go towards school for now and then when I graduate and get a job (hopefully) I can spend my time working on this. I have big plans for all of this that will need some attention and a good weekend or so to work it all out. I hopefully will get the Django covered with this software engineering project we are going to do, but with that being forced into a single month of death defying programming, I am not sure how much I will fully learn.

I have a lot ahead of me and hopefully a good future. I just need to first get moving into it all. Wish me luck!