Once again, the day passed by far too quickly. I started out the morning by doing about five loads of laundry, followed by Zaxby’s and “His and Her Circumstances” for lunch. I did get Smarty working this time—all it took was a few more directories—and wrote my first template. Later in the afternoon, I outlined some slides for my PowerPoint presentation on my professional practice research topic.
Titus introduced me to a couple cool PHP libraries: Smarty and Text_Wiki. Smarty is a templating engine designed to completely separate the presentation layer (i.e. HTML) and the application layer (i.e. PHP code). Text_Wiki is a PHP library capable of transforming text in Wiki format to valid XHTML. I messed around a little with both but had neither working at the end of the day. I don’t have full access to my hosting so installation could require special considerations.
I also tried to do a little 3042 homework but didn’t really finish that either. Where does the day go?
Things went a little better in lab today and I was able to get the rest of my checkoffs during my break in the afternoon. I also finished the noise filter for this week’s 3090 programming assignment, though I haven’t submitted it yet.
Next week is shaping up to be busy. Brewer pulled a fast one and announced that the second exam would be next Friday (we just got our first exam grades this week). I’ll also have a test in Ancient Greece on Monday.
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Fiddling with a couple of neat apps here: VoodooPad Lite and GeekTool. The G7 logo was adding using GeekTool’s image functionality; it is not part of the wallpaper.
Credits
Desktop Picture - An Ocean Apart by Bant
G7 Logo by Adam Parisot
We were presented with our second writing assignment in 3042 lab today. We are to implement two different pseudo-random signal generators and write a memorandum describing our recommendations. I had one of two checkoffs by the end of the day, no thanks to one faulty CMOS chip.
I met with Bette Finn, research and subject librarian, to get some help with my research since it was such a pain the first time around. She proved to be very helpful and I ended up walking away with about 70 pages of abstracts to wade through.
