4:34 AM, my computer clock quoted. That doesn’t alter the fact that I am not going to bed yet. Well, I am downloading songs from “The Veronicas” (Hook Me Up, the whole album); I just got the name from Indrie during the lunch yesterday noon, so thanks to her lolz.

Around 2:00 AM in the morning, my computer got another spyware attack. I am guessing that the spyware is still in my computer but inactive; later I’ll do the full scan to wipe all the spywares, hopefully it’s gonna work this time. Anyway, this is not my topic for this entry. I am gonna be writing a little bit about my exam, my study material. So enjoy

This semester I only have 1 exam which is Web Database Application or I often call it as WDA (simpler, faster, and easy to understand lolz). The exam is weighted only 40% of the total grade because the whole assignment is 60% hurdle. The group assignment of the subject drained me to bones, but then luckily the team managed to complete everything JUST on schedule. It was a huge work since we kept on adding functionalities here and there…scope creep should I say.

The course for me is not a very difficult subject because as you go read from the reading material from the lecture, they are all basic stuffs. If you have done Web Programming course before, the concept is more likely the same but the implementation is little bit different because of the programming language you are using. The whole lecture covers the topics of session, http request, form handling, user-driven querying, validation, etc. I should say they are all basic stuffs (again!). There are areas I need to concentrate more such as Template using PEAR ITX or MDB2 and also setting up basic authentication on server. I’ve done this before but using .NET which is MUCH MORE SIMPLER and EASIER (you know what Microsoft products can do rite? lolz). So, definitely I will be spending much time to focus on such areas.

Friday noon, I went to lab to print the whole study material and I decided not to use flip page during the printing which then I ended up with a lot of papers. After I re-think of what I’ve done….I’ve been wasting papers lolz, I just realized that after I went grouping the documents into more manageable format. One of the duty programmers said “Next time use flip pages because I am wasting a lot of papers”, indeed I did lolz..Anyway in the end of the day, I didn’t care so much because if I am using all of printing balances I’ll go end up with the same thickness and wasting that amount of papers anyway, lolz…After I compared it with the thickness of my alarm clock, they are actually pretty much almost the same in size…what the hell, am I doing….?

my alarm vs my study material

Anyway, to those my friend who are having exams….gud luck, have fun, and let’s roll in the exam room The Best of Luck

Cheerz,

~PeteRAoKi

Originally posted 2008-10-24 11:00:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Over the past two months I’ve been busy, packed, and loaded with academic stuffs. Two major projects of Web Service and Internet Industry Project (IIP) has drawn most of my time. The blogging activity should stop temporarily but now as I’m free, I’ll be writing and sharing more personal stories. I won’t be writing long in this entry coz apparently I lose my sense of writing so that I need to gather them back. As you read along this entry, you’ll find out roughly what has been happening to my personal life. So, let’s ride!

As I have mentioned earlier this semester I took Web Services and IIP; unexpectedly these two courses were giving me a lot of troubles and headaches.

The second assignment of Web Services is a group assignment. To complete this assignment I had decided to team up with Ryan and Glen. Honestly, at the very beginning it came accross my mind to finish this assignment by myself considering that it will be faster for me to work alone but then out of nowhere I finally dropped that silly idea when Ryan asked me to team up with him and I agreed to accept his offer. Glen however had asked me 1st to be one team with him, so it will be impossible to drop him and taking Ryan only instead. Luckily the maximum number of students allowed within one group is 3 and we all can fit in one team. The preliminary meeting was not producing a very good result since the requirement was very unclear however, we manage to start building the 1st project. The assignment itself was about building an architecture that requires the use of “Web Services” along the way to automate most of the business processes that happen in the given study case.

Anyway, I won’t go any further with technical details as probably you guys will get bored. There were couple of moments where I felt so dissapointed with the team; it’s not because they couldn’t finish the jobs but because they sometimes turned up late in the meeting. I know that they were feeling dissapointed to me as well because couple of things that I’ve done; despites of all the conflicts and internal feelings we managed to pull things together until the very end which was the demo. The demo was pretty screwed since we were facing couple of errors (over again!) but then we satistfy with the result because we win the prize of $AUD 600. This prize is awarded to the team who can present the best architecture design to the given study case. The decision to use JAVA and PHP was a correct decision in my opinion because it really shows the use of Web Services so that two different application written on top of two different programming languages can talk to each other. The prize money is a nice closing for this subject.

IIP is another different story; it is a project course in which you spend the whole semester doing a single project without having to bother with assignments and exam. This subject also will be used to complete my thesis for “Sarjana Komputer” (S.Kom). They story behind it on how BiNus University has decided to use IIP as our thesis is unknown and I have no attention at all to find out Anyway, the project  we took for this project is iPhone application development. The application is inteded for RMIT Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) student to manage their personal timetable within their iPhone. 30 June 2009, we were presenting this project to other people in the class and manage to pull good impression from some people. Although, there are still a lot of rooms for improvement but I believe what we have done for iPhone project development in RMIT is a breakthrough. In the next post, I’ll present you guys with the actual screenshot of our application since right now I am still selecting and compiling the images.

So, this is the end for this entry. I’ll be writing more soon since I also still in holiday period and I’ll share more stories with you guys and I really appreciate it if you guys put comments I also wanna thanks Ryan Seet and Glen Michael Kurniawan for a nice job that we have done for “Web Services”, we definitely rocked. Dennis Andika Suryawijaya and Glen Michael Kurniawan (again!) for the very nice job we produce in IIP creating those application. So, heaps of thank to my teams and sorry for the mistakes I’ve done

the story will continue, stay tuned!

Cheerz,

Peter Foeng

Originally posted 2009-06-30 22:20:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

As the title says, “it’s around 5 weeks to go” before my 1st semester doing Master degree ends. Currently at the moment is the week without any assignment submission but I know and I realize another hell of weeks are waiting just right in front of me. 5 submissions in total till the end of the semester. Let’s break it down a lil’ bit.

Internet Industry Project (IIP)

The basic functionality is almost done for my part, I’ve just hand over the project to Glen to have him works on the storing of courses to the database. My part is almost done except the calendar which is supposedly to be the hardest part. I’ve got the open source project for monthly calendar on the internet which I’ll be using to build up the weekly view as well as the daily view. Hopefully, it can be done without a major issue. The integration should be done in two weeks time (you guys probably have no idea what kind of iPhone project we are developing but I’ll make a dedicated post to “show-off” our project)

Web Services

The assignment is a nightmare. Our first group meeting was done this monday but we haven’t really figure out the whole picture of the assignment. Today, I consult with my housemate, Evan and suprisingly his thought is mostly likely the same with mine but then the idea to include the database into the infrastructure is just hard to imagine. I have a very bad experience dealing with database using Java because it’s too lame. The project is based on the domain creation stated on ICAAN website (http://www.icann.org)

Document Markup Languages (DML)

I have finished the last assignment and have nothing to worry about. This is done using Peter’s intellegence services.

Web Servers and Web Technology (WSWT)

The level of the difficulty is so so compare to Web Services (WS) which is again a nightmare ever. There are 2 assignments before the end of the semester and one of them is running project right now. There are no major issues at the moment and Google can serve our need to find the solution.

Well, that’s the rough idea of my assignment submission. As you read, I don’t go to the detail because you guys will definitely get bored (well, I bet you are). Hopefully, in the next post I’ll post some interesting story about my personal life.

PS:

• Events section is updated with new upcoming events
• Blogroll section is updated with my sister wordpress blog link (Ingelia Levina Foeng’s Blog: http://www.ph03.wordpress.com) and you can pay a visit
• I’ve added a new link section called “Peter’s Website Link” which basically links to my webpages.
• Enjoy!

Stay Tune!

Originally posted 2009-04-28 06:35:11. Republished by Blog Post Promoter