The Search and other Post Grad Activities
August 28, 2009
Since graduating from school in June–what have I been up to?
Went backpacking with family in the Three Sisters Wilderness for a week (and summiting south sister), and then up the Oregon coast for some fun in the sun at the beach (as well as backpacking a night in a very wet cloud in the coastal range..).
View from South Sister
Actually this experience resulted in some interesting game ideas I had for some adventure/travel/gathering/picture game.
Inspiration!
Well, I re-relocated back to Seattle after a couple months living in Portland, this should help with finding a job in this area–not so fun to travel 8 hrs for an interview…
At the library I stumbled across a rather fun programming book–Beginning Linux Programming by Neil Matthew and Richard Stones. I’ve been pretty excited going through it especially as it’s a project based book. The project in the book makes a CD catalog management program. This is all fine and dandy for the book but I have no use to record all my cds into a program. So I’ve been doing the cd program educationally, and then heavily modifying it to make my own program, MyGroom, a dog grooming salon management program. Basically the program will allow you to:
Add customer into a database, as well as their pets, with all the necessary info a dog groomer would want to know.
Search for customers, and book a pet.
Edit/remove entries and more.
This will be done with Bash, C, and MySQl among other things.
I think once I get through this book and get the program pretty well done, I’d like to do some web development for it, a business web page along customers to book their own dog and such using LAMP and web technologies. But, I haven’t gotten there yet.
