28 Days Later

No, this isn’t some sort of a freak movie of zombies overrunning the city. 28 days later rather is the day we will be probably turned into zombies ourselves!! Actually, 28 days later is our thesis project checking, that’s even more scarier!

You’d be wondering I’ve still got the time to post in here. Well, this is just one of my resting times that I badly needed after hours and hours of coding. It’s probably already a common practice. When  you’re not in the zone, don’t code, or you will just produce garbage output. But still, I’ve got to be ‘in the zone’ frequently or else, shattered dreams and broken hearts! Anyway, let’s hope our client or stakeholders cooperate well with us.

Now to see the brighter side of things, what if we do succeed on the project checking, and eventually pass the course! Then all my plans will start to unfold. Yes, I’ve already made a list of things to do ‘right after’ the thesis is done. The top list:

1.) Subscribe to a webhosting company. Webfaction or Hostgator?

2.) Start building my portfolio of websites by, well, making websites on the above’s choice. What those websites will be and how they are run is top secret, you know, trade secret.

3.) Start marketing those websites using SEO techniques I’ve learned throughout my freelancing time! What those techniques are are also trade secret!

4.) Advance my knowledge in the web development world and start focusing on one or two specific language and framework(s). This is what we call, personal branding. This way, I can then raise my price.

5.) Collect certifications! YEY!

6.) Do what I do best. Make 3d models and sell them online!

7.) This is rather less priority. Make video games using known GDKs such as Unreal Dev Kit.

 

This is just the start of everything, the foundation of a software giant hahahahha.

But as of now, I’ll just have to study hard or harder, and make sure our thesis makes it in time, as well as everything else. I’ll be back then..

Thesis Proposal Accepted!

Wow, at last. After all those long hardwork, all those sleepless nights spent instead into polishing up our documents and our knowledge about the topic at hand. All those non-stop argue and mock questions just to toughen up our skills and our know-how about the system, so that we’d be ready with the ‘defense’.

After many many days of preparation and strategy layouting, we came up with a 105 page document. This is as good as it can get, we’d put everything to it.

And now, the proposal defense was a success! Almost every question and inquiry was already covered in our document, and it almost seems like there’s nothing else to discuss, as it’s all there, and also our wonderful presentation, thanks to our adviser Engr. Aaron Maderazo who taught us to present as if we’re presenting to consumers or investors, rather than do a lecture and bore them all.

All hardwork we’re repaid! After all the minor revisions area accomplished, we can push through the implementation. This is where it will really start…

New Things to Learn this Semester

Thesis officially starts now. As our previous mentors shared to us, our learning curve during this semester “should” be exponential. This is to make sure our thesis is of professional quality, a breakthrough, and cannot be distinguished as school work. Its quality should be enough that it can be sold. 

So let’s put our gears on. We are used to these kind of pressures anyway, to learn everything, all at once. 

I am kinda embarrassed to say that at this point in time, I’m still new to ASP, much more to . NET framework. ASP is not much that of a difference with JSP which we are used to program with. But implementing it with .NET, I do not know how it would look like. But for thesis or not, it is very much geared towards web development, a really cool trend nowadays for telecommuter workers. Telecommuting means that the work is done at home, any time you want, anywhere, as long as you meet the deadlines.

Another thing, for my personal project, is to learn ZBrush! I love sculpting, traditionally, or digitally. It is also a lucrative skill to have, since it will allow you to enter the gaming or video industry by making characters or organic 3D models.

How about you, do you already have a plan or a checklist on what to learn this time?

Thesis and Enrollment

Finally, we have reached the last and final stage of our college life! 5th year Computer Engineering in University of San Carlos is not an easy task, we will have our thesis! After the initial phases of enrollment which as usual, comes with some disappointments due in part by the system’s downtime, the new teller’s exaggerated clumsiness, and the registrar’s inability to properly organize their student records and keeping them up to date which always bring hassles to the students, we are focusing on our thesis.

Just like every student who wants to graduate on time, we would like a thesis which is good enough to be accepted but not too difficult so we can graduate in time! But also like every future software entrepreneur, we would like our thesis to be a breakthrough in the software field, or at least monumental enough to make it a great marketing asset when we apply for jobs in the future, say, personal branding. 

Along with our adviser, we came up with a plan which is cool and ideal enough. But regarding to details, it’s confidential.

Anyway, I hope that it will get approved by the faculty panel this coming July during the project proposal defense and deliberation!