So what did you do this summer? | The Coffeehouse

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

Well I'm just back from my holiday's down in (almost) sunny and beautiful Cornwall, UK.

The high point was Adrenalin Quarry and the 490m zip-line over a lake. I very much enjoyed that!

So what have you been up to on your holidays, apart from the obvious?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Released xpize 5
...and Vize 2
Completed my first year as an undergraduate (with a 1:1 average module mark so far)
Bought another company outright
Tested Widnows 7, thought "meh" and planning to stick on XPx64 for the meanwhile
and some other stuff

spivonious

Worked? Smiley

My wife and I went up to NYC for a long weekend but that's all the traveling we did this year. Have to pay for the new kitchen first!

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 20th @ 11:52 AM

Pray do tell on the company...

And how did you buy a company flat out? Do you even own a for profit business?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to ManipUni

#Aug 20th @ 12:13 PM

I've invested my student loan, I didn't spend it on booze and partying Smiley

It's making a profit of a few hundred bob a month, I hope to expand it.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 20th @ 11:52 AM

You are STILL on Windows XP? Seriously! Wow!

Zeus
Why is the caption missing??

Worked, worked ..... oh and when my wife and son went to Denmark and Sweden, I worked some more ...

But it worked out, we landed a new client for ODIN, the tour operator software we are developing Smiley

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 20th @ 12:33 PM

"if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Whilst Windows 7 is an improvement on Vista, I still have no compelling reason to upgrade.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 20th @ 12:29 PM

... Doing what? Tongue Out

PS - Does it make more than putting your entire student loan into an 3 yr ISA and paying off entirely at the end of your degree?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to ManipUni

#Aug 20th @ 2:40 PM

Significantly more. Assuming things go to plan this acquisition will enable me to pay off my student loans whilst still being a student.

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 20th @ 2:57 PM

I had a similar plan ... in the end I did Pizza-Delivery and working as a Junior Coder whilst being a student ... but in my day they didn't have the Internet. TBL was some 3 years away from his world changing invention.

So Webbo live the dream .... anyway ... back on topic foooks.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 20th @ 1:25 PM

Hmmm... horses weren't "broken" and still we switched to cars. Sure, cars were more comfortable, although I wouldn't say that they were for quite a while, but still. 7 is also way more comfortable than XP. It starts already with the install experience.

Oh.. and yeah: I started to work at MSFT Smiley Sweet!

MasterPie
I'm white because I smelt an onion

I worked in a genomics lab, building a system to store genetic information and to (in the future) integrate data from gene experiments.

I also entered into the Will Code For Green Bing contest.

In my free time, I worked on a radio station platform (for high schools) that doesn't require an expensive media server.

Bass
www.spreadfirefox.com/5years/

Started a new software project. Went to DC.

kettch

Got a job after 9 months of almost zero income. Scared It's nice to be able to go to dinner and a movie without digging change out of the couch and doing a financial analysis and projection.

dahat

Work, work work, sleep, work, work, drank, work, work, saw a couple horrible movies, work, work, plotted evil, work work, C9, work work.

Come November or December though... then fun will be had as I find a tastey deer or two and put them in my freezer (whether they want to be there or not).

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I started my research assistantship, which is my source of funding (and research) as I work towards my PhD in computer science.

Charles
Welcome Change

Work...

C

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to Charles

#Aug 20th @ 10:51 PM

Worked a lot of overtime, drank a lot of tea, took a lot of painkillers (not all at once), failed to get enough sleep.

Herbie

EDIT: Oh, I did cut down a 20ft Leylandii hedge in our garden. We now have sunlight.

leeappdalecom
.nettter

Started the summer off by getting married and honeymooning in Barbados, worked alot, went to Bangkok for more work, went to Belgium and France to play some golf, worked some more, played some more golf, had a few BBQ's and now the football season has started I'll be at Millwall most weekends much to the disgust of the wife lol

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

People work to much on this forum ... take a break !

AndyC

In reply to Sabot

#Aug 21st @ 7:11 AM

Which, I guess, is a bad time for me to point out I worked most of the summer too, migrating our desktop image over from Windows XP to Vista x64. Of course, work hard and play hard is always a good motto, so I managed to squeeze a few new things in too, including going to Go Ape the other day. I'm still terrified of heights, but it was all good fun nonetheless.

And somewhere in amongst all that I got a new job, although it doesn't start till mid November, giving me a little time to realise quite what I've let myself in for!