Tag Archive | America
October 8, 2014  

America Roadtrip Summer 2014

Road tripping in LA

I was going to write a blog post about my month travelling around Arizona, Nevada and California with my friend and fellow computer scientist Rob Crocombe, but frankly I don’t think I could improve on what he’s already written. So, if you want to read about all the exciting places I went this summer including:

  • The Grand Canyon
  • Las Vegas
  • Santa Monica Pier
  • Griffiths observatory
  • Disneyland Anaheim
  • The Pacific Highway
  • The Golden Gate Bridge
  • Silicon Valley
  • Alcatraz

and much more, then make sure you click across to Robs blog posts and pictures:

Blog and Pictures of Arizona

Blog and Pictures of Las Vegas

Blog and Pictures of Los Angeles and Southern California

Blog and Pictures of San Francisco

Thanks to rob for such great work on the blog and images, and of course for coming along and having a great time in the USA.
Danny

January 6, 2014  

Goodbye 2013, Hello 2014

2013 was another year that simply flew past.

It’s strange to think that it was almost 3 years ago that I first made the journey from Dunstable to Hull and started my degree in Computer Science.

Last year was an important year, and this one will be even more so — here’s a roundup of what happened, and a plan for what is to come.

2013

What happened in 2013:

  • I passed my second year with an average grade of 85%
  • I had my first experience of commercial development as part of a business over the summer
  • I co-developed QuickSync — a platform for syndicating stock levels between different systems
  • I chose and started developing my Final Year Project, an Integrated Development Environment for PHP
  • I started considering alternative choices for my masters (and hopefully future PhD) and received some offers (more on that later in the year)
  • I had a lot of fun with my awesome friends at uni, and some students who spent a semester here from America.
  • I started arranging and saving for a month-long holiday to America with my housemate Rob (including meeting up with aforementioned Americans!)
  • I did loads of cool events with Microsoft, including going to Campus Party
  • I had blue hair for most of it!

2014

What I expect (and hope!) will happen in the new year:

  • More sensible hair
  • Graduating from The University of Hull with a first class Bachelors of Science Degree in Computer Science
  • The release of my final year project as an open source initiative
  • Lots of preparation for my masters degree, including lots of maths revision and learning Java (it seems like every other university mainly teaches using Java as opposed to C#)
  • Moving from The University of Hull to another university for my Masters Degree
  • An awesome road-trip around Arizona, Nevada and California from Phoenix to San Francisco

I think that will take most of my time!

I hope you all had a great time in 2013 and wish you a fantastic 2014. Thanks to everyone who made 2013 such a special year for me, of whom there are too many to list — you know who you are. 🙂

Danny