May 26, 2005
Cool!
Well, I spent most of today getting DB Pool Testing working... Now we have a way to en-masse test the database pool to see if we can track down the problems that we have been having with the pool... Maybe next week we can put it to good use.
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May 24, 2005
Well, well, well...
As you can tell, I occasionally have a hard time keeping weblogs (or any type of log) up to date. Its been a while since my last entry... I've managed to make some progress though, so I hope it doesn't look like I've just been sluffing off. The spec for the new Housing Application is coming along slowly, but surely. Running into the fact that people like to take vacations during this time of year. Thus meetings are not as close together as we'd like. Its comming together though. I've re-worked a few of the steps I had been going through. Hopefully these changes will make my life a little easier both during this design stage and future implementation stages.
Most of the changes that I've made have been centered around thinking more about the actual design. Rather than just taking what we had come up with in meetings and what is in my head and trying to turn it into UML, I'm trying to actually lay out the requirements and go through the proper Requirements Analysis stage of development. This should, as I said, create much less of a headache for me later.
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May 13, 2005
Fun Day!!!
Well, spent a little time today working on the UML diagrams for th project. Decided to start over with from scratch with a Use Case Diagram, but then moved on to a Class Diagram.
The rest of the day was spent moving to our new office in Hotz. Much bigger and I actually have a REAL desk! This new office is a big step up... I actually have space to spread out! Next I bring in the laptop!!!
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May 12, 2005
I hate slow!
Today was a pretty slow day for me. Spent most of it playing around with UML CASE tools and reading up on JUnit & JMeter. Nothing really tangable though in terms of results. Did play more with MagicDraw. Didn't really like it though... For one, it didn't integrate into the version of NetBeans that we are using. Second, it had a weird interface that was a little more difficult to understand. At the end of the day I ended up going back to testing Visual Paradigm UML since its interface is easy and quick to use.
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May 11, 2005
UML haywire
Well, spent the last few days looking more into UML tools that are available to be used for development here at Housing. I've determined that the program I had liked from the get-go, Visual Paradigm's SDE for NetBeans, is not quite as good as I thought. For some reason the evaluation version that I'm running won't generate all of the java class files for the classes you create in UML... It only generates one of them. Yes, it does create the files, but theyre empty and you don't have a way of changing that. I've been unable to figure out a way around this problem, so I've moved on to testing other options. For the most part though the UML creation capibility of VP-UML is quite nice... Only wish I could test it fully!
The next contender is MagicDraw UML. This too boasts a nice interface to NB, but I wasn't that impressed with it initially. Maybe I'll spend some more time on it tonight and tomorrow. I also need to work on testing. I tried to spend some time today looking at JUnit and JMeter. Will read more tonight. The next meeting is supposed to be scheduled for some time next week. Haven't heard yet on details.
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March 19, 2005
New Job!!!
I Have A New Job!!!
Finally got up off my duff and got out of Best Buy! About time! I'll be starting on March 4th as an "Applications Programmer" for the University of Arkansas -- Housing Department. I'm looking forward to a very challenging experience. I'm sure I'll succeed.
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