Week #11

Sorry for the late blog. Slept for about 18 hours yesterday because I was sick. At least it worked pretty well at making me feel better.

The World Crisis project is coming to an end. Seems like this semester is flown by even though this isn't the end yet. There was a lot of confusion about the specs of search from the times we asked about it, and from a user perspective, I would argue that the search isn't very friendly. From the programmer's perspective, it was a lot more friendly because of the use of libraries. I'm just having fun implementing features that make our project better than other group's projects.

I'm really failing at getting through the reading of Refactoring fast enough. The first 4 chapters were easy enough to read, but to actually absorb any of the rest of the chapters, it takes a lot longer.

The Gender Differences paper seems to come up around the time of the Grace Hopper conference. I didn't have the change to go this year, which is sad because I found it really motivating last year. At least some things were posted online, like this keynote from Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook: http://www.livestream.com/fbtechtalks/