Mathieu Tozer's Dev Blog

I've just added myself to
SourceForge
Freshmeat
CocoaDevHouse wiki and frappr map (only one in Oz!).

Hopefully get some in contact with some people to learn alongside.

I've just finished up doing one of the trickiest assignments I've ever done. It was probably one of the more time consuming ones too. I've spent way too much time on it, but I still feel like it's not the end product that I wanted. (You may have seen the screen shots and thoughts as much!) 

I guess that's why I did it really, to learn about the difficulties of Analysis and Design and to learn from these initial mistakes. At least I know the areas where I could make some improvement, given a little more time and incentive!

Well, I've been quiet here these past few months, but it's because of the commencement of university really! I am still active in my development projects, however slowly. They have diversified, and I have become interested in web development, namely Ruby on Rails, and often have ideas for social software.

I am reading a lot - and constantly learning about the online technology community.

This is my final year at uni. I am going to apply for some graduate jobs for the hell of it - to see what kind response I get back. If some of them are appealing, then who knows... I will also try for some Japanese companies. I want to work with technology. That much is known at least!

It's tough concentrating on so many things at once. As a reward, I sometimes treat myself of a Cocoa tutorial. This weeks: Doing a tutorial with the classic example of Embloyee Department relationship often employed in teaching database stuff. It is the document that I was referenced from the question that I asked on the mailing list. I figured I'd better get the basics before anything else.

I've been doing, for my curricular work, lots of Analysis and Design for CSE3308. I'm finding it is what I have done many times for the Words project and more, but in a more formalised way, and I am putting more effort into it. I am enjoying it, but sometimes it gets tedious because I have to write down every single detail and it gets a mess sometimes.

I am MEANT to have been writing a perl script as an assignment, but as yet have not started. It's a bit of a worry because I don't have any prior experience in perl. I'll try to get started on it this week.

I have been looking around for other Mac people at my stage of development to work with, but as yet have had no luck. I have been in contact with the CS faculty asking whether I can do a Mac based final project next semester, which would be right up my alley, and I have a couple of leads on who might be able to mentor me.

I feel like I want to have something solid and made to take with me out of university, but with time constraints, it's going to be very difficult to do.