Digital Dave

So, today was pretty interesting.  I didn’t have my first 8:30 class, and thenI found out my 1:30 philosophy class was canceled.  So, all I had was finance at 11:30. What sort of luck is it when you nail 2 cancellations in one day?  I was hoping for that third, but it never came.

So the network coding assignment was pushed back until today due to last week being the career fair, and a lot of students were a little more concerned with finding a job.  The project ended up “alright,” in my book.  I was trying to figure out threading at the same time I was figuring out how the server and client interact, and, well, the threading tripped me up a little.  The UDP version + Sniffer turned out just fine.  It was just the TCP version that had some issues with connecting with more than 1 client.

All in all, it was a fun little assignment, but I’m looking forward to the next one even more.  I’ll definitely have threads and the connections ironed out by then.  We’re to develop a client / server chat application that will also have a directory of other servers (implemented by using RPC or RMI).   Extra credit is to keep a tab on the servers, and updating the directory if a server ended its session.  Doesn’t sound too difficult.  We’ll find out.  I’m debating on developing it in C# or Java, but I’m leaning a little more on C#.

Alright, I’m off to do some reading. Peace, journal land!

Oh, yeah.  So, my investment portfolio is up 19.5% (6 months). Right on!  If your money is just sitting in your bank account, bringing in a few % of interest a year, you might consider starting an investment account at Scottrade for $500.  Take a deep breath, and dive in, what do you have to lose? Time?  Good luck!

In my finance class, our portfolio is up about $65,000.  I made one of my best stock picks last Thursday, and I made one of my saddest mistakes today.   Let’s just leave it as: If you invest, and your stock runs up 50% in two days, SELL 3/4, or at LEAST 1/2.  That one stock I picked, ran up 60k.  I ended up selling it today at ~20k. But, to end, I still <3 China (for now).
Ok, time to go read. For real.