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Official Start of Final Year Project

So final year project has ‘officially’ started today and I’ve been informed of my project supervisor. I’m really hoping he likes my idea as I’ve spent a fair bit of time organising and putting things together for it already! As…
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Careers Fair 2011

I really enjoyed the teesside careers fair. I got a chance to speak to the likes of Jagex Games Studios, Waterstons, IBM and Eutechnyx about graduate programmes and careers (there were a few free pens and drinks thrown in there…
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Black and White Creative Writing Piece

My newest and latest original creative writing piece. A horror piece revolving around a pair of sisters who are selected and dragged into an unravelling, ancient war between the mysterious ‘order’ and the forces of ataxia…

 
 

Animex 2012 and Careers Fair 2011

I bought my annual Animex tickets today 🙂 I’m going for the WHOLE WEEK 😀 Looking forward to it already. I may also do a workshop as well… I asked politely if I could sit in on Game Mechanics and…
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Directshow and FYP

So it looks like I haven’t shaken off directshow just yet, I’ve been pulling bits and pieces of my final year project together already despite the tutors telling us to do nothing yet. I’d much rather use my time to…
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Of Erlang and Layered Architectures

I’m enjoying doing a bit of Erlang, it’s seeming straight forward at the moment. Arguably my most difficult module will be Software architecture, but it’ll be interesting as well!

 
 

Final Year of University!

Had my first lessons this week since coming back off Holiday. My modules are Software Architecture, Alternative Programming Approaches, It & People, Emerging Technologies and FYP. Looking forward to it 🙂

 
 

Holiday/Internet/Blog Outage

2 Week reconciliation time. Hopefully with limited access to the internet before I start uni! Despedida! (Goodbye in spanish according to google translate)

 
 

Part Time Job (software Developer)

I was approached to do some part-time programming. I’m excited and hungry for a fresh, new project.

 
 

Java Puzzle Prototype. Netbeans GUI Builder is AWFUL

It’s been fun programming in netbeans and java again after a year of mostly C#. The GUI builder in Netbeans is TERRIBLE. Thank god I understand the generated code!