Archive for October, 2005

Sniff and Sneeze 5

Monday, October 17th, 2005

Sniff:

Sneeze:

I planned to blog about the films I watched during the summer vacation, planned to post a entry about “Sachlichkeit und Emotionalität”, planned…..but well, just too busy with my homeworks and a software project initialisation for now, didn’t have any mood for blogging….Today I got a bit better organized from my homeworks, cannot wait to say hello to you! :)

Now we have a 6-er software development group, going to build a web-based internship broker for our college. The new group name is called “le GruppÉ”, no idea what it means. Andreas, Nico and me are still together, there are three new people, Christoph Birster, Matthias Kabala and Michael Folz. Matthias is our project manager, he’s very talktive, energetic, keen on learning/trying out technologies and very diligent, always in-time on homeworks. We all like him and I think Prof. Müller will like him too. Christoph is a Linux hacker. I haven’t known much about our big Michael but his fluent French really impressed me. He is in charge of our deployment discriptors, JBoss is a totally new thing for him, but he has already made a HelloWorld Servlet up and singing for our first iteration of test. Bravo big Mike! People is the most important success factor in a project, we’ve got motivated, skillful, energetic, diligent and lovely people, I have confidence in our project. I’m the architect and testing engineer in the group. The allowed technologies for this project are JDBC, Servlet, JSP and JUnit. No other framework is allowed. Well so that we might be going to write some in-house frameworks (if that would be allowed by our professors). I strive for 100% testing coverage for our production code and for testing JDBC connections and servlets, there’s something sophisticated I need to learn. I’m pretty excited about this project somehow, the unit testings I did before were very primitive, time for me to grow. Besides the roles like project manager, architect, DB modeler…..everyone is also the coder. So there’s much code to write too. (Since no framework is allowed for boosting the productivity….But for learning’s purpose, this restriction is good for us. )

Ang Lee released his new film “Brokeback Mountain” last month and I cannot wait to watch it. I watched his “Pushing Hands”, “Eat Drink Man Woman”(again), “The Wedding Banquet” (again) and “Sense and Sensibility” and some other films during the summer. Ang Lee is no doubtedly my _favourite_ director. More about him later…..

So much for today, still have to prepare for tomorrow’s networking lab. See you later! :)

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so the new semester starts/ summer job log 2

Sunday, October 2nd, 2005

My new semester will start from next Tuesday on. I’m excited about it. Friends are coming back to the campus these days, happy to see them again.

This summer I’ve been working on an online survey system for evaluation of the lectures in our college. It was not really a complex system (Mostly multi choice questions like “how do you like the lecture? “, etc. ) but the legacy code was crafted against EJB spec 2.1. EJB 2.1 is not the most awkward thing, but the data model in the old system is not flawless. For such a simple survey, there are 24 tables underlying in the database. I developed a new data model, which consists of 5 tables and I guess is more coherent/easy to understand and maintain than the old model and hibernate/EJB 3.0 on top, but my boss said we cannot lose the data in old system so please keep the old data model. I can feel free to extend the tables. He was sooooo gentle when he was saying that, I turned back to the old system without any uncomfortableness. I’m not working on it for something like graduate thesis, but during the development he cared about the progress a lot. He also mentored me patiently when things got really confusing. He has a student working for the UI of this project as his graduate thesis, he pulled us together and he’s very nice to Mr. Kahlau too. My boss is the best boss one could ever hope for. :) 24 tables or 5 tables, who really cares, the important thing is that I learnt how to work with legacy system, learnt some hibernate framework and I was happy when working for a good boss.

I was a bit lazy for a while during this summer break, it’s not as hectic as last summer break. But I got good sleep and rest, exercised much, watched some really good films, had wonderful concerts and read some interesting books, though not that technical. Suzan visited me from Vienna and I enjoyed the time when we were together. She told me my ex. math teacher Mr. Wen suicided. Deeply depressed. I planned to visit him in winter but he left in such a hurry….Life’s that fragile, we really need to take good care of ourselves.

The new semester starts. New challenges and new possibilites. I’m ready.

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On National Day

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Today is Chinese National Day. I have a mixed feelings in my heart. I love her, I’m proud of her in many ways and I feel disappointed about her now and then…. (Same old cliche once more: Such is life.) I have three rules for my blog: No religion; No politics; No sex. So let me stop.

Wish my family and all my friends there good health and happiness. There are news that my high school classmates are getting married one after another. Congratulations to you guys and may you have happier new lives! Meanwhile such news just made me feel really old. ;) I’ll be back for winter break from mid Feb. to mid. March. Please keep some of your wedding bonbons for me! :)

Feiyang’s baby is nearly 3 months old now, if I don’t remember wrong. I’ll try to visit you in Beijing. When are Wei Qiu and Qiafei Qiu going to have babies? You’ll have to come to my home and let’s have really big meals…..Qiu&Qiu you are such lovely people and you’d really taken good care of me when I was in K’lautern, I terribly miss you and miss the time we spent together….

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