Well I’m there at last, and I managed to pull a 2:1 out of the hat. My dissertation result of 65% must have pulled my grade up a fair few marks, which I’m really glad about. I spent many a sleepless night on it and without a few key people (who know who they are) I definitely wouldn’t have gotten as far as I did.

I’ve just landed a job at the NHS doing 3rd line technical support, or more precisely phone support for near on 1,000. It’s only temporary for now as I’m still thinking of moving to Bristol at the end of summer

There are a few projects in the pipeline, such as “The Magazine” which is primarily a web based venture covering topics from the arts to psycho-geography. If you don’t know what psycho-geography is head on over for an explanation from Luke. There is another project in the pipeline which is advertising based, however that’s all I’ve been told so far about the job specification so it’s anyone’s guess at this point that the system will do.

Finally, my passing out ceremony is on the 18th of July and is broadcast live from the University which you can get to from <this link> if you’re bored and fancy watching people look silly in gowns.

Dan

If you’re interested in Ruby and programming issues in general some of the following links might be useful:

Zen and the Art of Programming – A general Ruby, Rails blog, the RSS feed from this is great if you want to keep track of goings on outside the Rails community.

Ongoing - An interesting read for those who want a recap of the “interesting” bits of programming conferences like JavaOne. At the time of posting this he’s gone into full flower-picture-taking-mode, andsome of them are fantastic.

Stevey’s Blog Rants – this one is great only if you’ve got a lot of time on your hands. There’s an interesting article about the come back of dynamic lanaguages and some methods/tools to speed them up that are just around the corner.

IT Signals – useful for finding out how plug-ins that he uses work. Maybe useful, might not be.

Too-biased – musings on subjects from CouchDB to ActiveShipping (A rails merchant plug-in) and then some…

If you’ve got any more interesting sites that you regularly read along the same lines as any of the above leave me a comment and I’ll add it to the list.

Dan

It’s all printed and bound a day early. I’m quite pleased in a way it’s all over.

The project has taught me a decent amount of Ruby on Rails, however I’m not planning on making a career out of it just yet.It’s been far more interesting than many other programming projects I’ve taken part in, in the past 4 years.

It’s quite strange to think that my 4 years at University will be up within a months time. I’m looking to go into a customer facing job, interfacing between programmers and and the public. So if you’re hiring give my CV a quick look over.

Dan