Moving to work

For the past two weeks, I've worked nearly full-time on CS course development from home. On Monday the professor will arrive in town and all staff will be colocated. I'll depart tomorrow afternoon and move into my apartment. Full-time work will resume Monday.

Full-time work begins

The time tracker for my full-time summer appointment opened yesterday. I did a bit of work then, but put much more time into it today. So far I've nearly completed my first task, which is to rewrite and improve a piece of the grading infrastructure. At this rate the summer should be extremely productive.

App hits 400 users, somehow

Despite the university being on break and most students leaving town, my bus app's install count has continued growing. It recently hit 400 users!

Clearing the backlog

Now that I'm back in the Quad Cities, I have some time to work on things I had previously deferred due to academics going on. Today I implemented an update to one of my programs that had been requested a few weeks ago. I'll see about deploying it tomorrow.

Summer development work begins

Yesterday I started doing some CS 125 development work. Even though my full-time appointment won't begin for a couple weeks, this semester's appointment is still in effect and there's some small items I can look into. So far I've tested out some possibilities for autograder infrastructure.

Assembly mostly worked

Sequencing results for my last batch of plasmids came in yesterday. Most of the new ones worked, but a couple have extra mutations and one failed to sequence, indicating that the assembly probably failed. Nevertheless, 7 or 8 of the 10 are ready to go.

Out of the dorms

This morning I packed my remaining items together and left campus. That's the end of my two-year stay in University Housing - I'll move into an apartment this summer and a different one in the fall.