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Moving On

So I’ve been a bit absent from this space for a while–school commitments have largely demanded my attention with two midterms last week. Sometimes I truly amaze myself: I had managed to confuse the exam dates for each test with the previous class date. I had thought that my Numerical Analysis exam was [...]

Senior Project, Dogsitting, Schaeffer

We attempted to do a production install of our senior project software this afternoon on this machine. It turns out that the Tomcat web server software that was supposed to be running on the machine was replaced with something called ePrints. A production machine mysteriously had its web-guts torn out with absolutely no [...]

Munchies

It’s 12:12 AM, and your paper is due in 18 hours.
You’re tired, you’re hungry, and you’re up to your eyeballs in Apple Computer’s 10-K report.
You want to nap, but you know if you do, you’re finished. You’ve got 10 pages left to write, and you need a way to stay awake.
What do you do?
Ramen [...]

Do you want to know…what DLSI is?

Some email correspondence over the weekend made this blog inevitable.
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Agent OE: As you can see, you’ve been my class for some time now, Team DLSI. It seems that you’ve been living…two lives. In one life, you are NJIT students, computer science majors at a respectable university. You have a student ID number, [...]

Project Management Methodologies

One of the interesting (if tedious) responsibilities for my Senior Project class at NJIT is to discover, interpret, and choose a project management methodology. Having had no real prior experience in the theory of project management, this has been a real challenge to me: I feel like I’m desperately trying to claw my way [...]