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30 Days of Geek – Day 14 – Favourite computer conference?

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Seeing as I’ve never been to one (yet) I can’t really have a favourite. However, I’ve been to the National Computer Science School (ie computer camp) and it was possibly the most fun I’ve ever had in my life. A week of writing scripts in Python, having access to powerful computers and a fast Internet connection, and most importantly, making friends.

During the week we had to write a search engine spider as part of a website we built for a charity. My fondest memory of the week is, along with my good friend Jack Scott, modifying the spider and setting it to work downloading as much of the Internet as we could before Python crashed. It took a while.

I’m looking forward to attending linux.conf.au (named after its domain name) in Brisbane in January 2011. It should be a blast.

First couple of days at school…

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Just finished the first 2 days of Year 11. Bascilly just the normal, a few lectures on expectations, a few changes to the school, and more lectures on how year 11 is so important.  I got VERY good classes this year, Senior English, Maths B, Physics, IPT, Graphics and my Cert 3 in IT. I have friends in all my classes so I’m happy so I hope this will be a good year.
Also a special Hi to Kierran as this will be her first blog she reads.
Oh and I might blog something a little bit more useful next time…

TheSkorm @ PCYC

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Ok, I finally updated the “The Skorm @ PCYC” Website. It now has a new layout which is both CSS and HTML valid. YAY!. I’ll add a picture gallery and admin area soon and possibly even boards :>. The whole website has been remade from bottom up usings suggestions and techniques I learned at NCSS.
Anyway I’ve come up with a new python program for you’s though source code will not be revealed. Here is the out put. It’s amazing what you do when between sleeping, LAN’ing, playing spotlight, and just hanging.

 >>> coolcheck(’michael’)
‘This person is kewl’

That’s with my name, now with my sisters.

>>> coolcheck(’zoe’)
‘This person is NOT kewl.’

Don’t you just love python…

NCSS 2007

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Just came back from NCSS ‘07 . I had a great time. If you didn’t know already, NCSS is National Computer Science School. It’s run yearly for a week by theuniversity of Sydney and we take part in programing as a group a search engine as group and a website, this year it was Hands of Help which got a redesign. Our version of the site can be seen here, though I only worked on the search engine and not the website. The search engine was built with python, which many of us hadn’t used before. Over this week we had python lectures, web lectures, trips to Microsoft and IBM, free time, group bonding activitys and last but not least “Kens Morning Games” which has the motto “It’s fun and you meet people”. On the last night we ended up staying up the whole night rushing to get the search engine working and listening to Techno Music. At the awards ceremony alot of us were half asleep or asleep. I my self made some great friends and had a fun time and learnt a new programming language “python” which I have decided to continue learning as the easy of use and good programming practices are extremly useful. After arriving at home I had the fun task of setting up my server has it had crash while away (some sort of motherboard problem). Now I have a nice Compaq Proliant DL380, with 2 x 1ghz CPUs’, 4 x 9.1gb SCSI hard drives raided to create a nice huge hard drive, 2 x PSU incase one fails. FreeBSD is setup on it now and the server is running fine with 100% idle. Now what? xD


Google!

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Well I have seemed to talk about MS and IBM and I nearly forgot about our legends Google. On the Friday night everyone was rushing to finish their code before the presentation. Basiclly we stayed up all night (well the ones that didn’t fall asleep under the computer desks [refering to jack]). Google supplied the whole of NCSS with 50 to 60 odd pizza’s and each rep dedicated to the teams supplied a massive load of sugar, and carbs (refering to the large ammount of nacho’s, choclate, lollies, and soft drink) to keep us through the night. In the morning the code was finished and all went well. Google even gave out free google pens.

GOOGLE YOU ROCK.