Next week brings graduation for me. I’ll be moving on to another stage in my life with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science… not the most exciting accomplishment, so I feel, but a step closer to… well, something that I wasn’t a step closer to without the degree. The project that I’ve been working on over the past three months has been a web application for a local magazine called The Smart Shopper. It’s a magazine that focuses on advertising local businesses. I know I complained about this last time I blogged but I felt that I should do it again as I’m approaching the final sprint to the finish. As in bicycle racing, I’m not a sprinter, sprint finishes leave me begging for mercy.

The web application that I’m developing is an e-bayesque application that will integrate with The Smart Shopper‘s current avenue of selling advertisements within it’s pages. This project turned out to be a thousand times more difficult that I thought it would be and every time I make some progress I learn something new and end up returning to the point I was at two weeks ago and re-writing everything I have done. Two steps forward, three steps back.

Granted, actual application of my skills to a real-world application is a heck of a lot more useful than being taught “how” to do something by reading a book. I think over to Ben “Helicopter” Bernanke’s solution as well as FDR 2.0′s grab for power over the sheeple and how Bernanke’s “solution” is just fuel for the fire of our new Overlord’s attempts at herding the peasants into re-electing him since no body “cares for” and “provides for” the people like he does… but I digress.