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University of Durham parchment… what?

August 30th, 2006

the university have got hold of a lot of coloured card, run it through the laser printer with a mail merge to get them mass produced and then stuck a little sticker on the top of it

From graduand to graduate

June 30th, 2006

Well, I am no longer a student. I graduated on Wednesday and shook Bill Bryson’s hand. The ceremony was interesting and there are a number of photos available on facebook (click here to view). There will be more appearing there and on my photo gallery when I get round to uploading them.
The day wasn’t without […]

Graduation tomorrow

June 27th, 2006

Tomorrow is my last day as a student of the University of Durham before I graduate. The Comp Sci party starts at 11:00am before the actual ceremony of Congregation, which starts at 4:00pm. After that I will be a graduate of the University with a 2:2 (Hons), making my full title Matthew White BSc. Hons […]

Degree Complete

May 22nd, 2006

Well after 3 years and lots of boring modules and work my degree programme is completed. ASAM exam officially ends in 5 minutes but I left early as I had done all i could do.
Now all I need to do is wait for the AUT stuff to be resolved so I can get a mark […]

Exams start today!

May 18th, 2006

Having spent all of about 2 days revising for ASE I think i now know enough to answer 65-75% of the paper.
I know quite a bit about:

Software Testing
Agile Methods
Software Maintenance

I dont know much about:

Program Slicing

This could prove to be problematic in the exam!

Revision & Degree

May 9th, 2006

Having paid the ITS £66.16 I am now +929 printer credits which seems a lot but.. I need to print off my lecture notes for the past term/year so that i can revise and pass my exams.
I had a meeting with the director of undergraduate studies in the department and he told me that at […]

It’s Over

May 3rd, 2006

1st October to 2nd May was the official timeframe for my dissertation and project… The actual amount of time really spent on it was probably 20 march - 2 may!!!
Its done though and there is nothing that i can do to change that any more! i am now -850 printer credits with the ITS […]

Dissertation deadline looming

May 1st, 2006

It seems that all I am currently doing is writing up my dissertation and nothing else. I have spent the last week in the Techno Cafe in the Engineering Building. It’s a nice room to work in with little booths, laptops, tablets, smartboards and lots of spare network sockets and power to plug into. It […]

Dissertation is now more cheery but still poo

April 27th, 2006

OK… after a load of help from the Java legend that is Dave i have managed to get my dissertation back on track.
After last nights rage and almost complete destruction of all things electrical I have discovered that my JVM will not run JDOM as there are some bits and pieces in the SAXBuilder that […]

Dissertation in “Death March”

April 26th, 2006

Right,
I think its finally time to admit that my dissertation is royally fucked. After spending this evening getting the first few bits of GUI working properly I have found that it is simply not running on the pda properly. It will run happily in eclipse but i receive lots of runtime errors on the PDA. […]

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