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New Year's Resolutions

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This year my new year's resolution is to not only get comfortable with working with MySQL, but to have it implemented live on my website and doing so without giving administrative rights to newly registered members...or really anyone. :D I also plan on replacing as much of my procedural programming with object oriented programming. I want to get my site updated to Preview V within six months and move on to bigger things perhaps! Also I want to find a girlfriend up to my standards (she must validate without warnings :mrgreen:).

So what are your new year's resolutions?
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Post by matthijs »

Waist less time hanging around on forums ... oops, already failed one.
No more drinking (maybe also not less)
Live to the rule Less is More, so I'll end this list with: Do Good

Happy New Year everybody!!
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Work less overtime..spend more time with family....back with sport activities... hm..so trivial...
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To finish my damned site. For once.
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Post by Jonah Bron »

To stop making new year's resolutions :rofl:


but seriously, folks...
My new year's resolution is to start making my new year's resolutions around March or April.
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Post by DaveTheAve »

  • Goto College for computer engineering
  • Continue my strive for a Social Geek
  • Mantain a healthy body
  • Play tennis in college
  • Work out more
  • Get a girl that mets my standards (I've lots of luck in this area though; even with high-standards...)
  • Actually finish the remodeling of my website thats been due a year ago.
  • [s]Get a sub for my car[/s]
  • Get a new(er) car for college
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

DaveTheAve wrote:Goto College for computer engineering
classic 8)

Just the fact that you're here indicates that you're a self-learner. And nobody really cares if you have a degree / diploma. Not at all. Save your time and money. My advice is this: move in with geeks (away from your parents) and forget college. You'll learn more from doing stuff than you will from classes. Way more. And you won't incur a huge debt.

Has anyone here *really* benefited from college / uni classes?
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Perhaps I won't learn as much as i could by myself, however, employeers only care about a degree. Thus, I must goto college. Sorry.
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Employers do not only care about a degree. If they did, I woul still be working in Security instead IT.
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

They really don't.

Seriously.
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Post by JAB Creations »

Kieran is right, wish I knew that ahead of time. The "college" (IADT Orlando) I attended dropped both the AS in Web Design (little interest) and Web Development (main interest) and I was the only person in both degrees for two years. Oh, nothing like being failed by a graphics teacher for professional Web Design. "You won't learn CSS until Web Development, this is Web Design so show me some different designs"... few people deserve to be smacked so hard. 10 MB Photoshop slices and full blown Flash classes with the word font used (at all) in the single class dedicated to any sort of actual "code"...HTML. Epic fail...on our nation's education system and for the dunces who who think a BA in game development will do anything other then put them in enormous and unjustifiable debt. There has to be a dedicated stickied thread somewhere for reasons not to go to college for anything computer related?
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

post_secondary_school [deprecated]

(INTERNET, WIKIPEDIA)

post_secondary_school — Returns the user to a state of confusion and debt

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Description
degree post_secondary_school ( subject, tuition [, time, effort ], callback $credentials )

People who failed in industry years ago pretend to teach you something about a technology that was replaced years ago by something better.

Unlike apprenticeship() which contributes to your resources, this function is extremely resource dependent.

See also:
burn_money(), waste_time(), kick_yourself()
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Post by DaveTheAve »

Hey, i'm not going for web development... i'm going for computer engineering...
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Post by RobertGonzalez »

That was awesome Kieran. Yet again.
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Post by Jenk »

Simple things for me:

Eat more fruit.
Get more sleep/improve sleeping pattern.

and er.. that's about it. :) Don't normally have any resolutions at all. If I want to do something to improve myself, I'll start doing it the moment I think of it :)
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