Well, indeed it has been such a great journey in both the IE semesters. I enjoyed last semester more than this one in particular as Yousef and I did not have any major tasks to do. When I mean major, I mean Craigs and James major..heheheh Yousef and I did work on some pretty interesting stuff this semester which includes database synchronisation with Mysql and SQLyog, crytal reports was an unbelieveable experience for me as I have never worked with these applications before but thanks to Craig and james for giving us the opportunity work in these areas of the project. With regards to the development, it was soley done by James and Craig was a really good Project Manager. He always kept Yousef and I busy with micro tasks which kept us at it all the time. I am really going to miss all these guys after we done with uni. We have been together since the begining and we became so so close to each other, more like family. But not bragging about anything but our project is of the highest quality and calibre. Its unbelievable......
All in all, really had a good three years with my friends I met along the way. It has been an incredible experience coming from Africa. Now that I am in Australia I realise what I have been missing all these years and what my family is missing presently. I love this country and would persue a future here and hopefully a properous career as well.
To all our tutors and Lecturers. Its been a real pleasure working with you all! Best experience thus far!!!!!!!
POD, Jake and Dave and off course the lovely Helana, you guys Rock!!!!!!!
I will always cherish fond memories of being in your classes!
Thank you!
Monday, October 13, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Week12
Has been a really busy week trying to nut out stuff. Have been working with some reports on crystal and boy did I have a hard time trying to get these reports done. Well went away and did followed the right steps in binding the report to the data source but the problem came along when we tried to put in calculated fields into the report. Visual studio and crystal have a big whah about that but after lots of googling and teething I manage to pull something out. Its always the case where your problem seems so enormous that it would require a massive fix
but yeah it only took a few clicks into the report designer and wallah report was fixed. Just used the wizard instead of manually creating a datatable and binding it to the report to show up calculated fields but that was a good learning experience indeed. A big learning curve for me indeed as I have never worked with crystal reports before.
Everythingelse seems on track with other assignments but IE this semester was worrying for me cos I did not have major tasks assigned to me but tried to the best of my ability to fullfill those tasks and did come up tops with some tasks but was really an intuitive experience...
End is almost here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait
but yeah it only took a few clicks into the report designer and wallah report was fixed. Just used the wizard instead of manually creating a datatable and binding it to the report to show up calculated fields but that was a good learning experience indeed. A big learning curve for me indeed as I have never worked with crystal reports before.
Everythingelse seems on track with other assignments but IE this semester was worrying for me cos I did not have major tasks assigned to me but tried to the best of my ability to fullfill those tasks and did come up tops with some tasks but was really an intuitive experience...
End is almost here!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Week 11
Has been a pretty busy week with assignments due and stuff. Have been working around the clock to get all my stuff in order. Meeting at uni tomorrow with the guys to work on some documentation and stuff. Should hopefully get tons done tomorrow. Cant believe how fast this semester has gone by..... I can see the end!
Was a slow weekend, everyone went to the Footy I guess. Still battling with broadband in Berwick. Its absolutely insane. Now wored broadband in a brand new Estate. Havve been waiting for almost 2 years now. Satellite broadband is such a headache I tell you. Latency is so so high bit on the other had at least I got something a little bit better then "dielup"
Some screenshot of a ping to www.google.com
Ridiculous!!!!!
Until next week!!!!!
Was a slow weekend, everyone went to the Footy I guess. Still battling with broadband in Berwick. Its absolutely insane. Now wored broadband in a brand new Estate. Havve been waiting for almost 2 years now. Satellite broadband is such a headache I tell you. Latency is so so high bit on the other had at least I got something a little bit better then "dielup"
Some screenshot of a ping to www.google.com
Ridiculous!!!!!Until next week!!!!!
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Week 10
Damn ticket offices, could not even give me 5 minutes to update my ticket. Well 5 minutes later and a $60 fine. That just sucks........ Damn ticket tumble dryer.....
Well my car....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............. Has set me back another $600. CV joints need replacing..... Come on car just a few more weeks to go until I replace you.
Skipped our IE meeting this week due to work commitments but all has seemed to go through very well. Just some tidying up here and there to finish up. Need to get the user guide finalized between us all. Craig and James absulutely light years ahead in terms of programming and designing the system. One of the very few talented people I have met.
Yousef and I have finalized our database syncing with SQLYOG. Seamlessly easy tool to use and works very well! One way syncing and two syncing is available. Have also looked at rysnc. Works very well as well. Thats the linux version......
Opensource for open minds!!!!!
Until next week!
Well my car....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr............. Has set me back another $600. CV joints need replacing..... Come on car just a few more weeks to go until I replace you.
Skipped our IE meeting this week due to work commitments but all has seemed to go through very well. Just some tidying up here and there to finish up. Need to get the user guide finalized between us all. Craig and James absulutely light years ahead in terms of programming and designing the system. One of the very few talented people I have met.
Yousef and I have finalized our database syncing with SQLYOG. Seamlessly easy tool to use and works very well! One way syncing and two syncing is available. Have also looked at rysnc. Works very well as well. Thats the linux version......
Opensource for open minds!!!!!
Until next week!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Week 9
Well, the end is almost here!!! Anxiety is building up and eventually everything is going to be gone by so fast. Its starting to get scary to know that in just a little over a month and half we are out of here and into the big world. Have attended the IBM career fair today. Seems like a pretty interesting place to work at but being an international you need to have your PR sorted out before you can apply for these roles which is the down side but in the next few months I should have that and am willing to give IBM a shot and see how I go.
IE, lets see, still busy with db syncing. Havent wrapped it around my head as well. Definitely not as easy as I thought it would be. Looking at some tools like rsync for linux and see how that works. But all in all, James has got more than 90% of the system running and from a functional point of view its pretty sound. User docs and guides are a daunting task but will get there eventually.
Other than that, am pushing hard on the other assignments coming up and hoping to finish them all up soon!
Until Next week!
IE, lets see, still busy with db syncing. Havent wrapped it around my head as well. Definitely not as easy as I thought it would be. Looking at some tools like rsync for linux and see how that works. But all in all, James has got more than 90% of the system running and from a functional point of view its pretty sound. User docs and guides are a daunting task but will get there eventually.
Other than that, am pushing hard on the other assignments coming up and hoping to finish them all up soon!
Until Next week!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Week 8
I just wish my car would work for me when I really need it to work. First it was, starter motor, then the brakes and now the cv joints!!!!!!Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Money, money, money!!!! I just need it for a few more weeks. Come on car hang in there. So much for my waggon wheel.
Uni has went well this week, meeting with out client this week, looking forward to that. Development is at +- 80%. Still have some tidying up to do, such as user guide, installation guide etc..... Lots of work ahead......
Other subjects going pretty well, interesting stuff with FIT3056 Secure and Trusted Software Systems. Learning about Buffer Overflows, SQL injections, Awesome stuff DR Le. Analysis and Design Methods streaming along steadily. Just finishing up stuff for my portfolio for SDI.
Looking forward to the end now!!!! Cant wait to get back into Industry!
Uni has went well this week, meeting with out client this week, looking forward to that. Development is at +- 80%. Still have some tidying up to do, such as user guide, installation guide etc..... Lots of work ahead......
Other subjects going pretty well, interesting stuff with FIT3056 Secure and Trusted Software Systems. Learning about Buffer Overflows, SQL injections, Awesome stuff DR Le. Analysis and Design Methods streaming along steadily. Just finishing up stuff for my portfolio for SDI.
Looking forward to the end now!!!! Cant wait to get back into Industry!
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Week 7
It has been considerably a busy week indeed. Lots of assignments due and work that needs to be covered. Secure Software has been a real challenge this semester. Some really interesting stuff that we are currently exploiting for our first assignment. Its scary to know how exploitable code can actually be..... Very interesting unit Monash.
FIT2027 has been good. As always POD and Dave = 100%;;;;; Thank you! IE has be going good. We have a meeting next week with our client as they are back from my home country Africa. At least the lions did not rip them apart cos we spoke to them today.DB sync stuff going good but also looking into replication with mysql and going to see how difficult or easy it is to implement and deploy. Looks easy by theory but practically I think its not that straight forward.
The end is almost here now.... Cant wait for it!!!!! Lets go boys!
FIT2027 has been good. As always POD and Dave = 100%;;;;; Thank you! IE has be going good. We have a meeting next week with our client as they are back from my home country Africa. At least the lions did not rip them apart cos we spoke to them today.DB sync stuff going good but also looking into replication with mysql and going to see how difficult or easy it is to implement and deploy. Looks easy by theory but practically I think its not that straight forward.
The end is almost here now.... Cant wait for it!!!!! Lets go boys!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Week 6
Vista I hate you with a passion!!!!!! For some reason vista lost the drivers for my Mahashitsa dvd drive and tried re installing the driver and it still just wouldnt work. Eventually had to edit the registry and boomb got it to work. Absolute non sense.....
IE, looking forward to this week. Hopefully going to finish off our prototyping and get some feedback form the client who I presume are still in Africa on Holiday. Hope the Lions don't eat em up. Still working on the Db syncing stuff. Craig managed to upload the website but Go Daddy is having issues with bandwidth so no having much luck with that. In the end I guess you get what you pay 4. Cheap squat hosting = 100% downtime.
Things are heating up and stress levels are running high. Anxiety is building up! The end is almost there. Assignments are due, exams coming up......... Going to be good!!!!
Until next week!
IE, looking forward to this week. Hopefully going to finish off our prototyping and get some feedback form the client who I presume are still in Africa on Holiday. Hope the Lions don't eat em up. Still working on the Db syncing stuff. Craig managed to upload the website but Go Daddy is having issues with bandwidth so no having much luck with that. In the end I guess you get what you pay 4. Cheap squat hosting = 100% downtime.
Things are heating up and stress levels are running high. Anxiety is building up! The end is almost there. Assignments are due, exams coming up......... Going to be good!!!!
Until next week!
Monday, August 18, 2008
Week5
Has been a considerably hectic week with stuff being due. For IE I guess the ball is rolling well. Yousef and have been working SQLyog to synchronize 2 copies of a database. Got to a point where changes have been reflected and the destination DB has been successfully updated but need to research how I can streamline this function to a great degree. Presently trying to get Windows Task Scheduler to execute sync scripts to update the destination DB. Still figuring...... Luckily I brought my wireless router to uni so we could create a test scenario to prototype the proposed solution. Its looking good though.
Have been trying to get tools to test vulnerabilities in source code for FIT3056. Was pretty ok, found some open source applications which does the job but I dont necessarily trust it as there is always vulnerabilities in code no matter how secure you try to make it. Cant wait for the end now........ A few more weeks to go... Come on guys we can do this thing.
Have been trying to get tools to test vulnerabilities in source code for FIT3056. Was pretty ok, found some open source applications which does the job but I dont necessarily trust it as there is always vulnerabilities in code no matter how secure you try to make it. Cant wait for the end now........ A few more weeks to go... Come on guys we can do this thing.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Week4
Had been a pretty good week. Lots of work piling up but getting around to it. Ie has been going good. Yousef and I got all the prototyping reports working which were generated in crystal reports. Was really intuitive and fun working with crystal..... Learned a lot from these reports generating tasks.
Will be working on setting up a web server (IIS 6.0, Mysql 5.0) for testing pursposes. Also going to try and have to databases in sync for testing purposes again. Will be a good learning experience.
Helping Yousef with FIT3065 setting up wireshark. We going to capture packets from a telnet session with a remote system (My ubuntu server 7.10) and analyze these packets for passwords which are sent in clear text over the network thus Telnet being so vulnerable to attack. Would be good to see this working in reality.
Anyway until next week......
Will be working on setting up a web server (IIS 6.0, Mysql 5.0) for testing pursposes. Also going to try and have to databases in sync for testing purposes again. Will be a good learning experience.
Helping Yousef with FIT3065 setting up wireshark. We going to capture packets from a telnet session with a remote system (My ubuntu server 7.10) and analyze these packets for passwords which are sent in clear text over the network thus Telnet being so vulnerable to attack. Would be good to see this working in reality.
Anyway until next week......
Monday, August 4, 2008
Week3
Geees times seems to be going by to fast this semester. Already into week 4..... Cannot believe it. Stress levels are starting to rise and work work work. Have been working on the database and crystal reports. Crystal....absolutely powerful report generator. Love it! Trying to get a synchronization mechanism working between the offline and online database for MYSQL. Really interesting. Hope that I eventually get it working.
My other subjects pretty interesting. Really enjoying Fit2051, Fit2027 and Fit3056. The best best units I have done thus far. Have been playing around with Backtrack version 3. Absolutely powerful. Able to crack access points in less then 4 minutes depending on encryption schemes used but its a brilliant distro to have.
Looking forward to the end! I can see it coming.......
My other subjects pretty interesting. Really enjoying Fit2051, Fit2027 and Fit3056. The best best units I have done thus far. Have been playing around with Backtrack version 3. Absolutely powerful. Able to crack access points in less then 4 minutes depending on encryption schemes used but its a brilliant distro to have.
Looking forward to the end! I can see it coming.......
Monday, July 28, 2008
Week2
Week went very well. Had our first meeting with our client for this semester. Went pretty good. Yousef and I conducted the meeting and all went very smooth. We have got our design specification signed off so we ready to into the nuts and bolts of the system. Yousef and I will be working on crystal reports to generate the reports for the system and are looking forward to doing so.
Other than that week has been good. Working hard with my other units as well. Still having issues with my broadband in Berwick. Have installed my new Rangemax router at home. Works like a dream just my broadband is narrowband at the moment.
Anyway until next week:)
Other than that week has been good. Working hard with my other units as well. Still having issues with my broadband in Berwick. Have installed my new Rangemax router at home. Works like a dream just my broadband is narrowband at the moment.
Anyway until next week:)
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Semester 2 Week 1
Was great to be back to uni and meet the guys. Dave is going to get sick of this semester as he is my tutor for 3 subjects. I am going to be speechless by the time I am done with this semester. Yousef and I have are arranging a meeting with our client for the end of this week, where we will get stuff signed of and done. Our programmers and coding away and we are putting a test plan together for our testing.
Week one was good, I know its going to get tougher as we go on but we all geared up for it. The guys are working away and looking to do as much as we can to finish up as much as we can. Its looking good.......
Until next week Mr Grant!
Week one was good, I know its going to get tougher as we go on but we all geared up for it. The guys are working away and looking to do as much as we can to finish up as much as we can. Its looking good.......
Until next week Mr Grant!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Final Blog Semester 1
It has indeed been a tough semester for me but really enjoyable at the same time. My team members have played an enormous role in allocating time outside our normal scheduled hours to catch up on work which helped me a lot in getting back on track when I was unable to attend our studios. Although my time was hampered down by my work for around about 2 and a half to three weeks I was still able to get tasks completed. Throughout this semester and life cycle of our project I have learnt how important time management is. For me it has to be the most critical aspect of any project and has to be managed accurately. Other than that it has been an absolute pleasure working in the team and given the opportunity by my team mates to prove myself with whatever tasks that were assigned to me. Looking forward to next semester and hoping that all goes smooth in the development phase of our project.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Week 10
Well was an interesting week. Completed our functional specifications which was great. Use Cases............... Burning the mid night oil. This week will be interesting as we coming very close to the end of semester now. Lecture pointed out some important facts for design specs. Took a lot on board. Went to Craigs LAN party this weekend..... Was pretty good. Pithced up late though but I had the guys Nandos at the back of my car...... Hope you guys enjoyed it boys.... Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxtrrrrrrrrrrrrrra hot for Mr Mattson. Although I stayed for a short while, it was really enjoyable. Will see you guys at the next one as well!!!
Well done Craigy...............................
Looking forward to finishing up semester now!!!!!
Until next week!!!!!!!!!
Well done Craigy...............................
Looking forward to finishing up semester now!!!!!
Until next week!!!!!!!!!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
Week9
Another weeks passes by and we are almost at the end of semester. It has been indeed a good one though. Semester2 promises to be much more hands on where we get to do the nitty gritty stuff. Gonna be interesting.
We have our design specs coming up Tuesday so will be interesting to get that out. It has been a pretty good week. Functional specifications looked good so hoping all goes well for us! Exam stress is slowly but surely building up. Am geared for it!!!!!! c`mon.....
Anyways all in all, it has been a good week for our guys in regards to the project progression...
Lets keep grinding guys!
Until next week...................
We have our design specs coming up Tuesday so will be interesting to get that out. It has been a pretty good week. Functional specifications looked good so hoping all goes well for us! Exam stress is slowly but surely building up. Am geared for it!!!!!! c`mon.....
Anyways all in all, it has been a good week for our guys in regards to the project progression...
Lets keep grinding guys!
Until next week...................
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Week8/9
Well after some graveyard shifts at work and no sleep I have seemed to find my footing again. Its been really good to be back and into the groove of things. Have caught up pretty well in the last few week taking into account where I left from. Alot of appreciation goes to all my colleagues for understanding the severe circumstances that I was in and helping me get through it all. Thanks guys!!!!
It has been a pretty good week thus far. Our tasks have been allocated and we are all on our way in making this project an absolute success. Our meeting today was very important and I think we got through all of our uncertainties with where that project was heading with our client and it all looks really good.
Just glad and happy to be back and a big thank you to Dave for understanding and helping me get back on track. Much appreciated.....
Until next week!!!!
It has been a pretty good week thus far. Our tasks have been allocated and we are all on our way in making this project an absolute success. Our meeting today was very important and I think we got through all of our uncertainties with where that project was heading with our client and it all looks really good.
Just glad and happy to be back and a big thank you to Dave for understanding and helping me get back on track. Much appreciated.....
Until next week!!!!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Week5
Been quiet a pretty busy week for us all. We met with our client this week and ironed out most of the stuff with them.. Its looking pretty good and with regards to architecture it looking to be pretty solid. Lots of technologies going to be integrated and its going to be very interesting indeed.
Our risk report is almost in order so thats cool. Yousef and I have been doing lots of db design and try things out. Looking pretty good. I managed to find a pretty good sql data generator that worls like a dream. Our db design is al done on paper now gonna put it the test and testing I will pump loads of data in there to make sure its stable as possible.
Guess what... still no broadband. Its pathetic.... Everyone thought gone were the days of Dielup but I tell you thats seems to be the only thing that works sometimes when satelite decides it worked too much. Looking forward to getting some marks from Dave this week. Well if Dave had a good surf this weekend then we all should pretty do alright!
Anyway back to the grind this week!!!!
Until next week......
Our risk report is almost in order so thats cool. Yousef and I have been doing lots of db design and try things out. Looking pretty good. I managed to find a pretty good sql data generator that worls like a dream. Our db design is al done on paper now gonna put it the test and testing I will pump loads of data in there to make sure its stable as possible.
Guess what... still no broadband. Its pathetic.... Everyone thought gone were the days of Dielup but I tell you thats seems to be the only thing that works sometimes when satelite decides it worked too much. Looking forward to getting some marks from Dave this week. Well if Dave had a good surf this weekend then we all should pretty do alright!
Anyway back to the grind this week!!!!
Until next week......
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Week4
Well for some of you guys having a great break..... Enjoy it while you can. Unlike me and the rest of our group members we working 24/7. Have been conducting more interviews at Nandos this week. Some pretty hot talent in the Ringwood area. Looking forward to the big opening of our store next weekend.
Have been searching around for hosting options for our client and damn it is ridiculously expensive. But yeah managed to get some pretty good providers at a reasonable rate so we will see how we go.
Another than that I cant believe that I still cannot get broadband at my place. Absolutely shocking I tell you. I havent had broadband in 2 years now. I have satellite at the moment...... I promise you no word of lie the latency on that has to be higher than the fuel price. Its absolutely frustrating and its not like I live in some isolated place. I live in Berwick and yeah no luck for me cos Helstra says that there isnt any port available for me at the exchange. 2 years to install a port and still no port. Thats Helstra for you. I mean Craig lives in Warragul and he has broadband..........Come on!!!!!
We have a meeting with our client this week over the break so will be good. We have an awesome client!!!!!!
So until next week..... Go Momo!
Have been searching around for hosting options for our client and damn it is ridiculously expensive. But yeah managed to get some pretty good providers at a reasonable rate so we will see how we go.
Another than that I cant believe that I still cannot get broadband at my place. Absolutely shocking I tell you. I havent had broadband in 2 years now. I have satellite at the moment...... I promise you no word of lie the latency on that has to be higher than the fuel price. Its absolutely frustrating and its not like I live in some isolated place. I live in Berwick and yeah no luck for me cos Helstra says that there isnt any port available for me at the exchange. 2 years to install a port and still no port. Thats Helstra for you. I mean Craig lives in Warragul and he has broadband..........Come on!!!!!
We have a meeting with our client this week over the break so will be good. We have an awesome client!!!!!!
So until next week..... Go Momo!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Week3
Been a great week. Got our client, met with our client!!!!! All going fantastic! Access Education here we come!
Till next week.......
Till next week.......
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Week2
It has been a busy week thus far. Hope fully we get our project by the end of this week!!!!!
Some on campus units are so boring to make mention of if not all are. DE came to the rescue!!Yeah.. Have had more fun with the new security units introduced this semester. Going through some really interesting stuff... Stuff that you can actually take on board into Industry.
Have been mangling with Kerberos for most of week.... Almost done with setting up my Kerberos authentication server. It is indeed not as straight forward as I thought it was. Well anything running on a Linux box is always interesting to play around with. Its a fantastic authentication system and Monash yes Monash relies on it heavly. Its is as secure as you get them nowadays. Very interseting... Anyone into network Security??? Have a read: web.mit.edu/Kerberos/
Well for the rest of the week I have been securing a little webserver that I have setup. Its running of my laptop at present but will get it to another machine soon.... when I have the time that is. Its currently running Ubuntu server 7.10 with LAMP. Basically I just used .htaccess and Htpasswd to secure all directories on there. Works like a dream. Now that was straight forward....
More linux admin comming up!
Until next week!!!
Some on campus units are so boring to make mention of if not all are. DE came to the rescue!!Yeah.. Have had more fun with the new security units introduced this semester. Going through some really interesting stuff... Stuff that you can actually take on board into Industry.
Have been mangling with Kerberos for most of week.... Almost done with setting up my Kerberos authentication server. It is indeed not as straight forward as I thought it was. Well anything running on a Linux box is always interesting to play around with. Its a fantastic authentication system and Monash yes Monash relies on it heavly. Its is as secure as you get them nowadays. Very interseting... Anyone into network Security??? Have a read: web.mit.edu/Kerberos/
Well for the rest of the week I have been securing a little webserver that I have setup. Its running of my laptop at present but will get it to another machine soon.... when I have the time that is. Its currently running Ubuntu server 7.10 with LAMP. Basically I just used .htaccess and Htpasswd to secure all directories on there. Works like a dream. Now that was straight forward....
More linux admin comming up!
Until next week!!!
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Week1
Well it is indeed great to be back to uni after the long break and great to see all my mates....Everyone is looking over grown(aka Tumble dryers) and out of shape but man is Jake in shape or what. Tell us all the secret Jake cos there definitely has been some major compression utility put to use.....heheheh. U looking good Jakey. Hang in there guys we will all surely be in shape soon. I can see lots of sleepless nights coming my way this year.. I wonder why????? Off course its Industry Project time.
Its what we have all been waiting for so lets enjoy ourselves and have sleepless nights. Guys I would have to say this and will say it again......... Is Dave electrifying or what??????? He got enough of energy to supply the whole of Victoria and boy does he ever stay quiet...!!! I love the man!
Looking forward to choosing our projects next week round and hopefully we get cracking away!!!!
Anxiously awaiting week 2...
Until next week.... watch this space.
Its what we have all been waiting for so lets enjoy ourselves and have sleepless nights. Guys I would have to say this and will say it again......... Is Dave electrifying or what??????? He got enough of energy to supply the whole of Victoria and boy does he ever stay quiet...!!! I love the man!
Looking forward to choosing our projects next week round and hopefully we get cracking away!!!!
Anxiously awaiting week 2...
Until next week.... watch this space.
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