Markjuh

I had set my alarm around 7:00, but I still felt pretty tired, so I slept until around 7:55. I got up, put some bread into the oven and sat down behind my computer. During breakfast I played around with Squirrelmail, but wasn’t quite as charmed by it as I thought I would be, so I switched to Thunderbird. I used it to send an email to Marc Voorhoeve, who will be my guide from university to help my out during my internship, to ask him what I needed to do for my report on this whole project. I got a reply later that day and with the help of some documents online and some of the reports class-mates had made, I started to set up the main document layout. After identifying risks and countermeasures, I filled in the guidelines for the rest of the document.

Furthermore, I noticed Rails was updated to version 0.11, which includes all kinds of new nifty features. I won’t repeat what is new, Rails 0.11.0: Ajax, Pagination, Non-vhost, Incoming mail lays it all out for you. It will also contain a link to a movie about the new Ajax-feature, which basically makes it possible to make web-applications more interactive (more like “normal” applications).

Somehow it felt like I’ve been doing quite a bit, but somehow I don’t feel as accomplished as yesterday. But I guess I also have to get used to the dynamics of working at home. At least it was nice to listen to some uplifting music by VNV Nation and some soothing music by Vangelis.