Category: Miscellaneous

Visited stands for FDM Group, Innovative Technology, Impact Control Systems Ltd, and Doris IT.
Doris IT seems a company I would be interested in joining in the future, they are very focused on mentoring employees and providing a support base for continuing development of skills throughout your career. They also have branches across the country which it is easy to transition between- including in Liverpool and Birmingham, which is ideal for me.

I got my final results for Semester 1 today.

I was pleased overall but it annoyed me again to see my lowest percentage of the semester… 40% in Coursework #6 🙁 The reason for this is that, as seen in .zips, we had to hand in a few assignments as .zips. When I got the result for this assignment I was dismayed to see that the marker commented that he could not compile my code!

Of course, I immediately opened my cmd and compiled it myself- it worked perfectly. What was going on? Before accusing the marker of misspelling javac or something, I decided to check what I had handed in… Oops (as in oopsy-daisy or Object Oriented Programming, whichever).

My .zip did not contain the abstract class! The whole program was relying on the abstract class and it wasn’t there! No wonder the marker couldn’t compile it!

But I can’t really complain… hopefully I’ll learn from this mistake, and maybe you will too… Check the contents of your .zip before you send it!

(Also my next lowest mark is 78% in my mathsy exam so not too shabby hehe)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dark-background-light-text/?src=search

I recently did an assignment for Human Centric Computing in which I had to evaluate the user interfaces of two websites under 6 distinct rules for good design taken from Nielson’s Heuristics, the Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, and general guidelines for various users. I realised that to form an accurate opinion, I’d have to disable my Firefox colour scheme for a few weeks…

What a relief it was when I returned to my darker theme today! I could feel my eyes relaxing immediately- everyone should have this experience!

#de97b0 #1c2328 #7fd7ff #ffafff #a800ff #31444b

In order, these are the colours my brother selected and I copied into my add-on:

Originally, this was due to the fact that I needed to complete an assignment but couldn’t look at my screen because of a… ahem (hangover) ahem… but I grew accustomed to the style and how much easier on the eyes it is.

I did, for a while, use f.lux- an incredible application which I highly recommend. I had it on my last computer but never used it on this one as it does increase startup time and this laptop is generally more comfortable to look at anyway as it has a matte screen and the brightness is easy to change.

However, I have to say https://justgetflux.com/ , just get flux, you (probably) won’t regret it.