We shall be moving into our new house (just round the corner) on 29th June. Most things have been dealt with and we started packing over the weekend. I can understand when people say moving is one of the most stressful things you can do!
We’re looking forward to being out of student accomodation and having decent landlords! We will miss the huge amounts of space this house has however.
Becca received her results for her degree last Wednesday. She was awarded a 2-1 with an average of 65 for her final year modules and 78 for her final year project. An award for ‘Best Brass Player of the Year’ also had her name on it. Needless to say we’re all very pleased!
Due to my placement not being complete as yet, I haven’t received my results for this year. I believe I will be able to request them shortly after completing my placement.
I have my final placement visit tomorrow. I imagine the main topic of conversation will be my final year project. I had an idea at the weekend which I believe strikes a good balance between research and business thinking. I won’t give anything away though just incase it all goes to pot tomorrow!
On another note, it’s results days tomorrow and Wednesday. Becca will be collecting her results on Wednesday (the arty farty day!). Hopefully we’ll be celebrating 
Nothing much else is happening, we’re just in limbo while we wait to move house at the end of the month.
Well I have decided on my module options for the final year of my degree course. I shall be posting them back this morning!
I have chosen to go for:
I feel these will give me the additional skills I need for my intended career as well as adding a bit of variety to my final year work.
One thing I have noticed is that we appear to be doing modules totalling 140 credits, as opposed to 120, for the final year. I will have to ask why that is!
Below are the module synopses for the two optional modules I have chosen.
CHS2575 - Mobile and Pervasive Computing
The range of networks and devices to provide computerfacilities in flexible and unrestricted environments is growing dramatically,and is likely to be one of the major growth areas of IT development in the nextfive years. The technologies provide a broad range of challenges, bothtechnical and commercial. This module presents the state of the art in mobilecomputing, and examines current applications.
CHS2525 - Advanced Databases
Database management systems have been through a history of progressive evolution from hierarchical and network systems through to the relational systems which currently dominate the marketplace. More recently, object-oriented database systems have begun to occupy a small but significant niche and some of the world’s largest databases are supported by object database management systems. Database management systems must continue to evolve as the demands for database services evolve. These demands include support for complex 3-dimensional and 4-dimensional modelling, database accessibility across networks and realtime performance response.
I have now completed my final assignment and submitted it for marking. All I have left now is to complete my placement diary, my final appraisal and potentially another placement visit.
My replacement started two weeks ago and I have trained him up. He has been doing the job by himself for the last week, he’s doing well!
My placement officially ends 5th July but I have decided to stay on over the summer until September. I will be doing a different role however, this will involve working with our new ASP Senior Developer, Paddy, on the CCL Online website as well as the company intranet.
I have been working with Paddy for the last week now doing some ASP exercises and also an accessibility analysis on CCL Online. I come from a PHP background and so I’m having to adjust to ASP through doing a few exercises.
Our first little project will be to redevelop the company intranet as it is many years out of date! After the intranet has been redeveloped, we shall be working on further development of the CCL Online website. There is currently a very long list of work to be done, this is to be split between the external company who developed the site and the in-house team. I feel that some experience of ASP will work in favour in the future, however I still would like to stay in a PHP development environment.
I will be choosing my final year module options this week, they have to be in by Friday - I will keep you posted!
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