Home Improvement

After delivering the last project for this semester, I have had a lot of spare time, and why not do some home improvement then? I bought a wall table at IKEA over a year ago, but never managed to get I up on the wall :-P. So today I tried my skills as “Tim Taylor”, and after several hours of drilling, tapping and pounding, I managed to get the table up on the wall, I even managed to keep the number of splits in the planks to only one (at one point I actually thought that I would be able to be flawless ;-) ). I also got a new chair, quiet a bargain and some posters so my room doesn’t look so dull. And now I’m ready for the final three exams, and one makeup examination, but when that’s all done, then it’s a hallway party (for now there is only 4 attendants, including myself), a trip to the United Kingdom (London) and then finally my traineeship at TDC starts the 15^th of July.

Relaxing in the sun

This is going to be one of the hottest summers ever.. So i decided not to waste any time on studying for the exams, and in stead take a trip back home to see my family and just relax.. I saw my younger brothers new house, really beautiful and spans over a large area, but a little moist downstairs. Later i visited my youngest brother, who is currently a bit ill, but i was able to drag him down to the river for a swim and to cool down ;-) So for the next couple of hours we are just going to relax in the sun with a cold coke and some music.. Ahh

Days of Documentation

After weeks of coding and fixing missing functionality in existing code, we finally decided to stop and start document the garbage we'd produced. Our heads are spinning and the mood is at an absolute low, but luckly we have the final deadline this friday, its going to be a glories day no mather what.

Jelling Music Festival

Now it is time for another party.. After weeks of coding and all sorts of homework, i finally ditched my fellow students two party and drink with my buddies B-)

Party in the hallway

It's been a while since my last post, but yesterday we were throwing a party in my hallway. I uploaded the pictures that were taken with my mobile:

Gangfest foråret 2007

Oh yeah, it's mostly in danish, sorry about that :-P It was a very nice evening and night as well at least the things I remember ;-)

Semester project RoboArm

Our next semester project is an pretty advanced robot arm. The assignment is to make it programmable and make it able to identify elements and sort these correctly. Its going to be one of the easier projects i think, partly because we are going to prioritize documentation over coding this time and at last we are going to use a true object oriented programming language: C#. I would have chosen java above C#, but IHA is almost pure Microsoft which i think is kind of sad, but understanding Microsoft software and being able to create new software is of course a must. Anyways, its going to be a good semester and thats that :-)

Xbox 360 flashed

Some weeks ago i wanted to try and flash my sony-ericsson k800, to debrand and customize it. I failed because of CID51, and had to bye my way out of it. Yesterday i started on a new project, patching my xbox 360 dvd drive firmware, and after 3-4 hours of intense research and work (spending at least one hour searching for my torx kit) i finally got it working, original games still works, know i just need to create a backup and make the final test, but everything seems to work, with only a few flesh wounds to my poor fingers ;-) Yeah

Water in Vejle

The entrance to my brother and his girl friend's apartment was heavily flooded, do to some serious raining over the weekend. That's me btw going ashore ;-) and yes it is fucking cold!

Soffi

My mom's new dog.. Very cute, don't you think?

Project almost done!

Finally, we got our Cruise Control up and running, there is still some minor faults, but no biggies ;-) Now we can concentrate on the documentation, and with the deadline just around the corner (5. Jan 07) we should have plenty to do.

And the party goes on ;-)

Oh joy, the holidays are here :)

A party almost every day, and not nearly enough money as a student :( but as you can see its all worth it ;)

Julefrokost hos far

En af de julefrokoster hvor man ikk laver andet end at spise ;-)

Design Patterns

Huston Design Patterns
A really nice page explaining GoF (Gang of Four) Design Patterns, including examples in C++ and Java code, and some exercises.

Happy 1st of December

It's been too long since the last time i made an actual post. I have had a lot to do, and still have. School has taken almost all of my spare time, we have a deadline this Monday and its going to be at bit tight. But i think we are going to do just fine, and I'm hoping for an 10 (compared to a A i think, or maybe B+ ?). Since summer i have started digging into C# and a bit wxWidgets for C++.
In my spare time i try to keep contact with most of my "older" friends, and of course my family :-) I have also some time to kill with either my favorite TV-show: "Two and a Half Men" or the console game: "Destroy All Humans", both tremendously entertaining :-P
I have also recently "departed" my, now ex, girlfriend for 2 years an about 7 month. A very sweet girl, but we just have our differences but it seems that we still can be friends, so that's great :-)
Thoughts: studies are still a bit of track, considering that i like high end programming like GUI or game engines, and we are still working with embedded systems and some signal processing. Those subjects are not my cup of coffee :-P
Well gotta go back to my studies.. C yah

Happy 1st of December

It's been too long since the last time i made an actual post. I have had a lot to do, and still have. School has taken almost all of my spare time, we have a deadline this Monday and its going to be at bit tight. But i think we are going to do just fine, and I'm hoping for an 10 (compared to a A i think, or maybe B+ ?). Since summer i have started digging into C# and a bit wxWidgets for C++ In my spare time i try to keep contact with most of my "older" friends, and of course my family :-)

Bulgaria, Golden Sands

Oh yeah, a picture from my first holiday vacation. A picture of my friend David and some duck called "Heine" (Heineken addicted) at a restaurant in Bulgaria, Golden Sands. Where i also learned that it is not a good idea to try every shot from one bar within 50 minutes. :-P

Java IDE's

Today im going on vacation for the second time within a month :-P But before that im going to tell a bit of my experience with free IDE's for Java. Im not a java programmer, but i do wan't to be one. That's why i need an environment that do not confuse me, but has some sort familiarity to previous tools i've used (Notepad++, Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 + 2005, Dev-Cpp 4.9.9.2 and Code::Blocks). I've realised that it's not all editors that come with an WYSIWYG implementation to design user interfaces. When i started in VB 6.0 it was there, and i could not imagine programming without it. I wan't to experience more GUI development, and have looked at several IDE's the past couple of days:

• Eclipse, open source, huge community, have not found any built in gui wizards or wysiwyg's but a couple of promissing plugins. Jigloo, and Swing Desingner.
• JBuilder Foundation, from Borland, does have some reputation, and a nice look.
• Netbeans, also a great community, and 5.5 introduces C/C++, but a bit heavy.
• Sun Java Studio, proberly one of the biggest IDE's from the creators of Java. Everytime some of there sources are made public, then Netbeans integrates these. I have not tried Sun Java Studio, mostly because i have to be a SDN member, and i do not wish to add another license on top of the program itself.

Anyways, i think Eclipse would be my choice, because of the community and all the positive response from sites like sf.net. But now i better start packing :-) Have a great holiday.

• Eclipse.org home
• Cloud Garden - Jigloo GUI Builder (SWT and Swing) for Eclipse
• Swing Designer
• Welcome to NetBeans
• Borland IDE : JBuilder – Tools for Java and J2EE Application Development
• Sun Java Studio Enterprise IDE - Overview - at a Glance

My friend is moving in

 
This is again one of my friends.. :-P He's moving because his parents got separated, and my dad had an empty room he could rent :-) But he did not like the the carpet :-P 

Birthday

 
My bestest friend had her birthday a while ago. She's just amazing :-) Just look at her cooking :-P Btw, we are going to Bulgaria this summer, im looking so much forward for it :-D