Summer isn’t over yet but I’m afraid that this summer season will be my first summer without experiencing saltwater.
I spent most of my summer taking summer classes (Physics 72 and PE 2 Weight Training). Aside from that, I spent a some chunk of my time in DilNet Help Desk answering phone techs, fixing networking problems on-site and fooling around with my co-applicants and student assistants. I also attended some interest-related events such as the UnPLUG Precinct Mapping Party and Ubuntu 10.04 Release Party.
The final leg of my summer, for me, was the most exciting. I accidentally got involved in a project while eating with my DilNet friends at a food stall near the Main Library. We had to develop an application to be used by a unit in UP.
Developing the app was exciting. Although I had previous experience with CodeIgniter (a PHP web-app framework that uses the MVC architectural pattern), it was my first time to use it for an actual project. It was my first time to use jQuery since the project required some realtime checking of constraints.
I also experienced roadblocks in making my part of the project. Three days before the deadline everything I coded for around a week got lost. After doing some research, I can attribute the loss of my folder to the way ext4 writes a file. I also found some solutions on how to recover my folder but I decided to do it again from scratch since recovering it will entail more work than actually rewriting the code. Here’s a more detailed explanation on what might have happened to me.
To catch up, I had to do some sort of coding marathon. I was awake for some 57 hours minus some short naps. During that time, I learned a lot from my co-developer.
It was a very fun experience and I am looking forward to working on more projects in the future.
And up to now, I am still looking forward for a beach outing. XD
