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My 2011 year in blogging
So one of my addons of WordPress, Jetpack, generated an overview of the activity in the last year. It looks pretty cool, so I decided to share it all with you.
The link below takes you to the page:
http://jetpack.me/annual-report/21086160/2011/
I’ve had a lot of fun with this website so far, and it definitely had some impact on my environment. I’m hoping I get to share a lot more knowledge and information about myself and my projects with you in 2012, provided the world isn’t going to end that is!
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And then another month has flown by. It seems most months don’t want to spend time with me.. They just drive by without saying hi. Mostly it’s my fault, though. School and my work has kept me quite busy.
I’ve finished I-6 with a moderate 6 on my project. Can’t say I am too proud of it, but we did a lot of work on our Architectural Description. We just managed to overlook a somewhat crucial part of the architecture, sadly. Now I’m busy with I-7, where the project is to research a certain trend in the IT world. We’ve chosen the topic “The effects of Internet Profiling on small to medium businesses”, where we want to look what the internet profiling of businesses do to those businesses and their customers. It’s very interesting, especially since we’ve had some insightful help from people we’ve met at seats2meet in The Hague.
Besides that, I’ve also been working on a newer version of my framework, as part of a project I’m doing for someone. It’s already proceeding rapidly, and I should have it finished within the week. I’ve upgraded a few things, but primarily I am happy that my framework is already saving me a lot of time.
This week is the deadline for my graduation proposal as well. I have to write a plan for graduation that I have to turn in at friday. It’s all exciting stuff!
I like coming across certain bits of software that actually have practical use. Like many other people, I am one of those that enjoys hoarding movies, tv-series, music and games on my hard drive. This however creates a problem: Running out of space. Up untill now I’ve never really needed more than 500gb of space, since I am not an excessive hoarder, but lately I’ve found out that due to my Uni, I actually have some things I want to watch/listen/play piling up. In an effort to clean up my hard drive a bit, I’ve tried to find and delete files that I don’t really use.
This creates another problem, though. Where the heck should I start cleaning up? Logically I would just charge through my download folder, but what if there are other folders that I forgot about, but are also rather big? I don’t quite enjoy the idea of examining every folder I have on disk space usage to see which folders might have some MB’s I can delete. If only there was a way to get an overview of all my folders and their sizes…..
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During the courses that I have followed on The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Design Patterns have lead a dominant role in many of the projects that I have completed. Design Patterns are tested solutions to common problems, and the beauty of these patterns is that they are extendable, maintainable and re- useable. In an effort to better understand the different Design Patterns that exist today, I’ve started a series of blogs that elaborate on the different patterns. This is mostly to support my studying, since I would be putting my knowledge into words, which helps me to learn and understand. However, I am more than happy to share my findings with whomever is interested. Every Pattern will be supported with code examples, mostly done in Java. You don’t need to be a Java master, but it is handy to know about OOP programming and Java in general.
In this article, we’re going to take a closer look at the Memento Pattern.
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During the courses that I have followed on The Hague University of Applied Sciences, Design Patterns have lead a dominant role in many of the projects that I have completed. Design Patterns are tested solutions to common problems, and the beauty of these patterns is that they are extendable, maintainable and re- useable. In an effort to better understand the different Design Patterns that exist today, I’ve started a series of blogs that elaborate on the different patterns. This is mostly to support my studying, since I would be putting my knowledge into words, which helps me to learn and understand. However, I am more than happy to share my findings with whomever is interested. Every Pattern will be supported with code examples, mostly done in Java. You don’t need to be a Java master, but it is handy to know about OOP programming and Java in general.
In this article, we’re going to take a closer look at the Object Pool.
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