What a nice midsummer weekend, only couple of rain showers and somewhat cold. But that sure beats staying in city and getting bored out of your mind there. I haven't been able to blog for a while, just being so busy at work and rather out of ideas. But this all is going to change now that my vacation starts in a week and I can lay those work things out of my mind for brief moment.

Seems that couple days off from work ain't enough to clear my mind of work related things, woke-up this morning from dream that involved me working the things I usually do. Boring. Seems that I really need a vacation as every game bores the hell out of me, that's odd but not that unusual considering the stress I have endured lately. Luckily I managed to compose rather tight metal song that I'm going to premiere of this years Assembly Summer @ Helsinki City.

On other news that new Samsung A6 series of FullHD lcd tv's sure look nice and affordable, might have to buy one soon. Maybe after vacation, sure could use new tv. Why no go fullHD as it's rather cheap nowadays. All for now, more on coming weeks, after I get my vacation started...

I received first contender for my thesis subject today, seems to be pretty challenging but not too hard (in the meaning that it can be done). Of course studying at the ICT field my thesis is going to be some kind of system development case. So this first proposition looks like it has to have some kind of Excel export feature among other things. Now, I did some research and (of couse as the XLS is Microsoft proprietary format, tools to produce exports are rather limited) it looks like once again couple of Apache projects are needed to solve that problem.

Best way for my knowledge is to use Excel to produce templates having all the needed formatting, formulas, etc.. and then in combination of Apache POI and jXls produce wanted exports. Only thing that is needed is to put some tags to that XLS template for jXls to be able to insert data to correct locations. This is if the exports are going to be about same in every case.

Other not so good way is to output HTML table and set MIME code to MS-Excel, this way we could make whatever Excel sheets but formatting would be somewhat limited to fonts and colours + Excel exports done that way look like shit anyways. I think we would go with the former if the exports are going to be standard. But nothing is confirmed yet, it's just that this task seems to be less on the trivial side and more on the usefull side.

On the other side a.k.a other stuff, tomorrow: work, again I am pulling way more hours than my contract *mentalnote to self* ask for more salary and clarification to real working hours. At the evening I have this Linux course, rather ok. On the music side, nothing much to report, down tuned my guitar to drop-C and it sucks. Have to tune it back to D-tune, drop-C makes everything to sound like crap mallcore, yuck!

I've been away for sometime now, not that I'd have been really away like in Australia. I just had shitloads of work to do and little interest to blog about that. Well anyways It all boiled down to last friday. The deadline for our project, the project itself were not the hardest but definately not a easy breezer either. Thanks to our team we managed to pull it off, pull it off in a schedule and probably in a budget too. Customer was happy, we were happy, so joy joy.

Of course other things have an effect to another things and now my school is pretty much fucked up, I have loads of catching up to do. Therefore I am taking next week off from work in order to catch those other things... other thing being the school. Yawn. I just want to get it done, fast to be able to really concentrate on proper work things.

But before that It's Civ 4: BTS night with my good friends Grelbar and Jenny, also take a look at our ASMCREW site.

I've been away for sometime now, not that I'd have been really away like in Australia. I just had shitloads of work to do and little interest to blog about that. Well anyways It all boiled down to last friday. The deadline for our project, the project itself were not the hardest but definately not a easy breezer either. Thanks to our team we managed to pull it off, pull it off in a schedule and probably in a budget too. Customer was happy, we were happy, so joy joy.

Of course other things have an effect to another things and now my school is pretty much fucked up, I have loads of catching up to do. Therefore I am taking next week off from work in order to catch those other things... other thing being the school. Yawn. I just want to get it done, fast to be able to really concentrate on proper work things.

But before that It's Civ 4: BTS night with my good friends Grelbar and Jenny, also take a look at our ASMCREW site.

I've been away for sometime now, not that I'd have been really away like in Australia. I just had shitloads of work to do and little interest to blog about that. Well anyways It all boiled down to last friday. The deadline for our project, the project itself were not the hardest but definately not a easy breezer either. Thanks to our team we managed to pull it off, pull it off in a schedule and probably in a budget too. Customer was happy, we were happy, so joy joy.

Of course other things have an effect to another things and now my school is pretty much fucked up, I have loads of catching up to do. Therefore I am taking next week off from work in order to catch those other things... other thing being the school. Yawn. I just want to get it done, fast to be able to really concentrate on proper work things.

But before that It's Civ 4: BTS night with my good friends Grelbar and Jenny, also take a look at our ASMCREW site.