Diary of a New Dad

Graph Games

Well, the game that I worked on over the summer called Graph games has finally gone public and can be found on the Channel 4 games chart.

Its aparently had 50,000 plays - giving the two lecturers enough data to hopefully write a paper on the subject of movement in graph understanding.

So if you are interested head over and look at what I contributed to here.

Weekend

The weekend is here and I have reached the end of my frist week as a cs intern. Its been emotional.

Anyway, the reason that I am writing this is cause I have discovered James Blunt and all I can say is WOW! I would really recommend this to anyone. I havent stopped listening to it for a week.

Also, DISNEY on monday. I cant wait to try out the new Space Mountain ride. Although the drive is going to be a bit tiring as it is so early in the morning. Watch this space to be kept informed.

First Week

I know that I am only half way through my first week, but I thought that I would post a quick item here. Anyone who has visited this site will know that it has been in a state of dissarray recently as I try to make the blog fit more in with my main site design. Although I dont know why anyone is coming to this page as I havent really advertised the fact that I am doing this.

As for work, it’s tough. I have dived straight in at the deep end and I think that I am starting to get the hange of it. My main aim at the moment is to implement a scoring system for the GraphMotion project that I am working on as a summer intern for the Uni. I have a VERY basic system up and running, and I am pleased so far because it means that I must know more than I gove myself credit for. The project is a very complex system of abstract classes, threads all over the place, and lots of stuff being re-drawn all the time to provide the animation.

So, thats work, as for life in general I went to Bargain Tuesday at Cineworkd in Ashford to watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and I have to say that it was a very enjoyable film. If you want to go and watch people and things be blown up then I would recommend it to anyone (apart from youngsers).

Update

Well, I have been a busy bunny this week, I am working in the Kent IT Clinic getting a feel for it so I know what to expect next year. Kinda jumping in at the middle end, if there is such a thing. Only got the one week there though as I start my summer job on Monday.

I have somehow, don’t ask how, managed to get a job as a summer intern with the Computing Lab. I am helping develop their research into Graphs in Motion by writing java applets and a website for them. A little nervous about this as I havent really done anything like this before, but I am really looking forward to it.

I am sort of thinking that this blog will become a “My summer in Sun”, orat least my summer programming their language. You might get an insight into what I will be learning and doing. Alternatively, I may not do that.

Enough for today, more soon.