Hull Comp Sci. Team Fortress 2

The bi-weekly Wednesday afternoon “sports” sessions are now going very well. Hull ComSoc seems to be on to a winner (even when the server starts to wobble right in the middle of a game – cue laptops and nervousness…..)

eZ430 Chronos Wireless Watch

I really want one of these. I’m not surprised they have sold out.

So Much for the Second Year

I was doing a lecture on our Software Engineering course today. We were talking about UML (Unified Modeling Language) and how to map language specific features (for example C# properties) onto UML diagrams (if you want to find out more about this you can go here for some useful ideas).

Anyhoo, I thought it would be a good idea to show an example of a property in action so I wrote some C# on the board:

Rob.Age = 21;

The idea was to start an instructive discussion about the difference between fields and properties in C# objects. I asked the class to consider the statement and comment on it. A hand at the back shot up. “What do you think the statement means?” I asked. The reply came straight back “That you’re a liar”.

Thanks for that.

Cottingham Lights 2009

The village (oh, alright – suburb) where we live has a tradition of rather nice light display each Christmas, and today was the day they lights are switched on. We went along, and I took the camera.

The village was quite busy.

I was very tempted to buy one of these…

Lego Letters

While we were in Berlin we went into the gift shop attached to Legoland Berlin. One new Lego product is the Lego nameplate. It comes with a bunch of shapes and an alphabet design you can use to make letters:

If you want one of your own you can find it here.