Tag Archives: databases

graduate school, Rails, and the squealing loo

Published: 20 February 2009
Pfhew, excitement! First things first, I applied to UK’s graduate school yesterday. Yes, I know, I’m crazy! I’m going to get my Master’s in computer science because I enjoy having $22,000 in debt already from student loans and I think my life would be more complete if I added another $10,000 or [...]
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database project and dead week

Published: 6 December 2007
My database project is past the “omigosh are we going to get it done in time??” stage and into the “what neat feature can I add next?” stage, which is a big relief. If you guys want to play with it, I have it here on 3till7.net. We’re doing a demo of it [...]
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ACM competition and Ruby/MySQL/OS X troubles

Published: 3 November 2007
Today has been a very long day. I was up at 7:30 this morning in order to help with the regional ACM programming competition. Jess and I showed up and helped work registration, which involved passing out t-shirts, goody bags, and making sure everyone was registered with a name tag. We then [...]
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fungal database project

Published: 24 February 2007
Work has been going all right. I’m converting over an old Perl web interface to Rails. It seems so crazy to write a Perl web interface for a MySQL backend from scratch; the guy didn’t use any kind of framework. The project deals with bioinformatics, specifically a fungal database. The database itself is huge: 1.4G. [...]
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back in Rails work

Published: 9 February 2007
Classes have started again for the spring semester and I’m off my co-op, so I’m back in full-time classes. I do have to pay the bills, though, so I’m working for one of my professors. He called it “undergraduate research,” and it is kinda that because I have to learn a lot of biology/bioinformatics stuff [...]
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