CompSci Grad Not your typical graduate

If it’s been a long day, and I’m feeling like crap because something isn’t working, or someone really pissed me off, I take a few hours and watch videos on youtube. More importantly, I watch videos that make me laugh. I mean out loud laughing. I figured I’d compile a list of videos that were especially funny to me, and end up brightening my day.

Well, for all of you that don’t know, I successfully defended my thesis on August 19th, 2008. The original date was suppose to be the 22nd, but due to vacation times and whatnot, it was moved up. I had less time to prepare but was excited to get things over with ASAP.

The defence was hard. The questions they asked were very hard. I’m glad I didn’t tell people to come. They would have witnessed a massacre. It was almost embarrassing with the amount of information I didn’t know. I got my chance to make up for things during the revisions process. My defence committee decided on which things I needed to change with my thesis. The changes weren’t really that hard, but the fact that they were changed that needed to be done was kind of a bummer.

Now that I've defended, I thought I would upgrade to Drupal 6. I'll give an update on the defense after, but since I've upgraded my blog to Drupal 6, that's what this blog post will be about.

So this was a pretty smooth upgrade. The only module that didn't come through the way I wanted it to was the the image module. But other than that, it was a smooooooth transition. Even views2 upgraded with ease. I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet, but I hear its the best thing since sliced bread.

I am also building a site in Drupal 6 soon and figured it was time i started playing with Drupal 6 and developing some modules for it. More than likely all of my next sites will be in Drupal 6 (or Drupal 7).

For now, I'll be using garland as the theme, but I'll install pluralism soon. It's apparently rated as one of the better Drupal 6 themes out there. Who knew? Not me!

As my defense date draws closer, I feel like that dog that knows he's going for a walk. I know I have my collar on, I know the leash is attached to my collar, and I can hear the door opening. My tail is wagging like there's no tomorrow.

I'm ready to dig my teeth into all these new platforms and apps out there. Most notably the iPhone SDK and the Android JDK. My thesis was mostly about Grid and Mobile Phones, so there's always that connection between me and phones. The first few Android books are out now, and I'm waiting until the minute I'm done my defense to order it.

I already have a book on JavaME, which I plan on using to learn some Blackberry development. In the October/November time frame, Apress will be releasing a book on the iPhone SDK. If I have my Macbook Pro by then, I'll be diving head first into that as well.

Don't get me wrong. I'm still interesting in the web and desktop stuff, but based on my research, computing is moving to the phones. Google Android is the perfect example of where Google can kick some more MS butt. The iPhone will continue to sell and their app store is still a very valuable piece of the mobile market place.