Testing, testing
Aug. 3rd, 2005 02:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenaySo. Test yesterday. On the one hand, I did better than expected. It was a "here's a pen, here's very tough written test, tell us everything you know" deal and it focused on all the aspects of Java that I didn't know, virtually nothing on J2SE. Despite this, I managed to answer some questions including several on JDBC, which I have never touched and which I was able to guess at from my knowledge of relational databases and distributed computing. Go me!
However, my score wasn't quite high enough and they won't be asking me back :-( But it wasn't as low as I thought it would be and now I have a better idea of where to start with J2EE.
After meeting![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
terrylbirch for a consolitary lunch, I wandered off to hunt down some bookstores and ended up in Picadilly Waterstone's for two hours. Definitely a place to hit if you're visiting London and love books :-) Took down some titles of books that look good for getting started with J2EE and will be buying one when I've got PHP/MySQL mastered. Also picked up some pocket references for PHP, MySQL and CSS so that I don't have to keep flicking through the big books when I need a quick glance at properties or methods.
Such a geek.
I worked on Under Green Hills for a while last night and have hit a section that needs some serious re-writing. That will probably be my task this evening. Also spent forty-five minutes debugging a PHP script where the major fault turned out to be an omitted space character in a string. Yay! But the PHP/MySQL thing is going well and at some time soon I'm going to be setting up a poll to get some feedback on features that users of the review site are particularly interested in before I get to heavily into designing it.
However, my score wasn't quite high enough and they won't be asking me back :-( But it wasn't as low as I thought it would be and now I have a better idea of where to start with J2EE.
After meeting
terrylbirch for a consolitary lunch, I wandered off to hunt down some bookstores and ended up in Picadilly Waterstone's for two hours. Definitely a place to hit if you're visiting London and love books :-) Took down some titles of books that look good for getting started with J2EE and will be buying one when I've got PHP/MySQL mastered. Also picked up some pocket references for PHP, MySQL and CSS so that I don't have to keep flicking through the big books when I need a quick glance at properties or methods.Such a geek.
I worked on Under Green Hills for a while last night and have hit a section that needs some serious re-writing. That will probably be my task this evening. Also spent forty-five minutes debugging a PHP script where the major fault turned out to be an omitted space character in a string. Yay! But the PHP/MySQL thing is going well and at some time soon I'm going to be setting up a poll to get some feedback on features that users of the review site are particularly interested in before I get to heavily into designing it.
