Course Listing Database Project

I was just told by UMass Dartmouth that they wouldn’t be releasing publicly available data in a database format just so I, a mere student, could work on a simple project for what they deemed is likely only a personal project for my own benefit, without actually asking me what the project is about. They [...]

Narvenyl Likes Spiders

Indeed, where would I be without them? Narvenyl’s new DataSpiders create new possibilities in database abstraction that makes me “geek out”. The problem is simple. You define what each table looks like, and you can get data from each table in a nice list of objects. However, you can’t minipulate that data, or extend beyond [...]

Narvenyl Progress (Summary: Slow)

The supply of time has been continually decreasing at the same time demand is increasing. I’m talking about the combination of holidays, deadlines at work, and other such nuisances revolving around a rather ingenious concept called real life. When it comes to time restricting some of my more fun activities, I generally drop into sarcasm. [...]

One Down, One to Go

I am officially re-settled into Ubuntu again! I had to drop Kopete due to an annoying crash when I tried to log into certain protocols, so I use Gai… I mean… Pidgin instead. I seem to be running in circles – this is the second time I’ve switched back from Kopete. On the side, I [...]