Monday, September 20, 2004
Work term reports...
So at about 12:10AM September 20, 2004, 450 Midwood Crescent officially finished four work term reports for SE 2008.
Printed, bound and delivered to the Office of the Director of Software Engineering; now the wait to see who falls victim to the math. Historically, 50% of first work term reports are rejected for failing the checklist; to say nothing of failing technical communication or technical content marking.
Which two of the following four will get nailed? (Apologies to Brett, I suspect I munged your report's name.)
Porting Microsoft .NET Applications to a Web Interface: HTTP Request and Response Processing, by Jesse Bishop (35 pages, 6,979 words)
Simplifying Component Communication in the ConnectedDB Architecture, by Colin Dellow (30 pages, 6,256 words)
An Analysis of Testing Methodologies and Techniques, by Brett Lounsbury (34 pages, 8,440 words)
Development of an Enterprise Information Collection Tool: Analyzing Design Decisions, by Daniel Marantz (37 pages, 7,600 words)
For reference: Wonderboy's 1B work-term report was 39 pages, 8,314 words. A 1A Computer Science student's work-term report was 17 pages and 3,999 words. Yay softeng!
Printed, bound and delivered to the Office of the Director of Software Engineering; now the wait to see who falls victim to the math. Historically, 50% of first work term reports are rejected for failing the checklist; to say nothing of failing technical communication or technical content marking.
Which two of the following four will get nailed? (Apologies to Brett, I suspect I munged your report's name.)
Porting Microsoft .NET Applications to a Web Interface: HTTP Request and Response Processing, by Jesse Bishop (35 pages, 6,979 words)
Simplifying Component Communication in the ConnectedDB Architecture, by Colin Dellow (30 pages, 6,256 words)
An Analysis of Testing Methodologies and Techniques, by Brett Lounsbury (34 pages, 8,440 words)
Development of an Enterprise Information Collection Tool: Analyzing Design Decisions, by Daniel Marantz (37 pages, 7,600 words)
For reference: Wonderboy's 1B work-term report was 39 pages, 8,314 words. A 1A Computer Science student's work-term report was 17 pages and 3,999 words. Yay softeng!
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
450 Midwood Crescent
Nerdtopia. Pictures will be at http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~cldellow/midwood/, eventually.
450 Midwood Crescent, summer home to myself and Chan Park, is the new home of a sizeable softie contingent, namely: Jesse Bishop, Daniel Marantz, Brett Lounsbury, and myself. Also co-habiting is Jeff Kroetsch, a lovable AHS student with an exuberance of bicycles.
Why is 450 Midwood nerdtopia? Let's review its technological contents:
450 Midwood Crescent, summer home to myself and Chan Park, is the new home of a sizeable softie contingent, namely: Jesse Bishop, Daniel Marantz, Brett Lounsbury, and myself. Also co-habiting is Jeff Kroetsch, a lovable AHS student with an exuberance of bicycles.
Why is 450 Midwood nerdtopia? Let's review its technological contents:
- 32 Ethernet ports:
- One 4-port 802.11b router
- One 16-port 802.3 hub
- Two 802.3u routers (with 12 ports amongst them)
- A Handspring Visor PDA
- Two digital cameras, one web camera
- A classic HP LaserJet 4 printer
- An HP PSC 2210 multi-function scanner, colour printer and fax machine
- Eight computers with a grand total of 790 GB distributed storage
- A RIM-subsidized 700kB/sec Internet connection which could probably service the people of Nauru or Tuvalu, or maybe even both.
- A few terabytes of DVDs
- Enough stereo wattage to cause mild tremors to be felt across the house
Add in the big barbecue out back, the flat-screen TV with DVD player, and a living room with a seating capacity of about 14 and you have nerdtopia.
