Opportunity Knocks

So this summer will be bringing a great deal of opportunity for me.
I say this as a sugar-coated way of saying I have no life or prospects for the future, and the only place to go is up.

Without a job or an occupation in any sense, I plan to spend my summer doing a great deal of independent projects. However, I do have two projects that are not purely self-serving.

I am still working on the Oxford Lions' Club web site, and that will be a major production for this summer. Hopefully it will be fully functional by the end of the summer. I have already completed the main page, calendar, and I am working on a tribute page to honor accomplishments done by members. Last step is to set up a page to allow for donations and online purchasing of raffle tickets.

Along with that, I will be doing a lot of work on my Applied Research class website, using the Moodle platform, which is a very nifty piece of software, and I highly recommend it. Here's the Home Page.

Of course there is some school work for Research and for AP classes, but that will be a cinch.

My own projects include setting up a home server, using Ubuntu Server 8.04 and a LAMP stack. Possibly working on some BASIC programming with my TI calculator. I was also considering some game design in either Java or porting some games to the TI calculator.

I will be picking up the bass guitar for this summer as well, to get some arts in there.

That is all for now. I will update with more substantial information later. (That seems like a common phrase in this blog).

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Technorati

Technorati seems like a fairly interesting service. So here we go:

Technorati Profile

Exhausted

I have just (roughly) completed a project involving an XML database accessible via PHP. It is not refined in the least bit. It's coded as part of an add-on for moodle. (moodle.org)

This bit o' code is not even close to refined. I would like to add a search feature (in fact, that was the main goal of the project. But with the deadline being tomorrow, and my limited knowledge of PHP, that will have to wait for another day of tinkering). And possibly make it more user-friendly.

I will upload a .zip later if anyone is interested. For now, I need to sleep. Finals in the morning. This will be a fun day.

(However, programming on a LAMP or MAMP stack is very fun and rewarding. I plan to play with this over the summer. My summer will be very free, so expect more frequent updates with more specific and ambitious projects. I want to end the summer with one big, useful project completed).

For now,
Commence Radio Silence

-Tyler Williams