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The last month of school a friend and I were hard at work on our Operating Systems final project.  The project was a client/server bomberman-style game that had to support up to 16 networked players.  It was a fun and challenging assignment.  I learned a lot, especially about Eclipse and CVS.  As a .NET guy [...]


The past two semesters, I’ve become increasingly frustrated with college. The main reasons being:

Senioritis
I’d rather be programming my own stuff at work or on my own
I took too many hours and worked too much (I was defiantly burnt out last year)
Homework assignments were not [...]


It’s that time again. This semester I’m taking Operating Systems, Networking, and World History. I think it’ll be an enjoyable semester. I’m very excited about Operating Systems, especially because we’ll be hacking on Minix 3. Anyway, that’s it for now.


Joel Spolsky has an excellent articale about what he calls, “JavaSchools”. I typically refer to them as CIS majors. Sadly, I see the same trend happening at my college.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html