Lessons.

Yesterday’s morning website building workshop for the F5 kids was OK. It wasn’t the toughest thing I’ve ever done in my life and I think the kids had a bit of fun learning that little bit about website building. Or at least I hope they have.

Then in the afternoon I went over to the HK Convention and Exhibition Centre (it’s apparently named this way) for the Java Certification Day. It was actually more of a showcase of Java applications by some of the Sun people. I was quite impressed in the first half of the session, seeing how Java is being used to generate SVG graphics (that was one cool thing) and how to deploy a web application using Netbeans without the need of keying much Java code. The most impressive thing I learned in the session was perhaps how Java finally bothered to merge it’s highly impressive but highly irritatingly huge library with scripting. It’s kinda hard for me to explain what this whole deal is – for those of you who are interested I think the people at Sun can do a much better job doing the explanation. I think I should really go pick up a bit of Java again so that I can go for the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam.

Managed to sneak this picture at the event – this shows that I was really there!

Then I rushed over to City University for the interview for my MSc application. The professor doing the interview with me seemed like a nice guy, and he was quite happy with my credentials. Of course I can’t say if that means that they are going to take me in, but I definitely hope I would get a place there.

Spent the whole of today attending lessons – my department is organizing this pre-certification training for the Comptia Security+ certification, and I think there’s definitely no harm in attending. The stuffs taught today was interesting, but I was so tired in the afternoon that I didn’t really pay much attention. Still managed to capture something into my memory, and I think whatever went into my head were interesting. The bad thing, if any, is that I still have 6 full days of lessons to look forward to, which include tomorrow!

Time to go sleep – I don’t want to be yawning away in tomorrow’s class like I did today.