So welcome to the big leagues kid.
It's 12:12 AM and I am slowly climbing a hill that I have slid off numerous times. I am installing Struts2 using AppFuse. The environment is MySQL, Maven2 and JAVA. NetBeans and Tomcat. I am currently waiting for some plugins to d/ l;
Music floats through my mind unable to burn an impression through my muddled thoughts of soon success ... "Build Successful". Some where inbetween my night-daydream a deep, lost memory surfaces. I remember as if it were now, the first time i successfully compiled my first program incorporating logic i wrote myself.
I lived at Blossom Terrace and attended FMU (Florida Metro University) ... I ran away from my home and all my troubles (so I thought) to the solace of chasing my dream. I was a second term student in Mr. Jenkins' Intro to Programming class. I finished my mid term 1 week and 3 days early. I remember running outside at some unforgiving hour of the night and screaming. (The Pumpking Patch Program)
I ended up only finishing that class with Mr. Jenkins. The day I told my teacher I had to leave, I know he could sense my dissapointment and he assured me that I could not loose programming. He said and I did not believe "No matter where you go, you will be a brilliant programmer". He believed in me and I left to go back and face my past.
So many years ago; I dreamed of graduating a Bsc. and becomming a programmer (for IBM none the less). I sit here in awe of myself, the world, faith and life as i know it. I just quit my job as a programmer to finish my Bsc. So much has changed ... I wish i could say such a short time... but its been a long road. I had a long road to get to my final year in UOG (University of Greenwich).
I have a new teacher now who has inspired me to use the Struts2 Application Framework to do my final project.
Its been one month now and I have not gotten the framework installed despite multiple heart poured attempts.
However though sleep deprived and taking an exam on thursday here I am still climbing this hill. I don't know about brilliant but I wish Mr. Jenkins could see me now. I have now far exceeded my own expectations from the day i wrote my first program. I try to remind myself of that when i feel unworhty or small because of compile errors or my currently failing project.
I remember the feeling of conquest, of passion, of value ... that I felt the first time I wrote a program on my own. I wrote that in BASIC. Today I write POJO in JAVA and I can follow the MVC design pattern and build in ant.
I know soon I will be programming in the new Struts2 Application Framework using Spring and Hibernate building with maven.
Until then ... I'll anticipate the feeling of "Build Successful"
It's 12:12 AM and I am slowly climbing a hill that I have slid off numerous times. I am installing Struts2 using AppFuse. The environment is MySQL, Maven2 and JAVA. NetBeans and Tomcat. I am currently waiting for some plugins to d/ l;
Music floats through my mind unable to burn an impression through my muddled thoughts of soon success ... "Build Successful". Some where inbetween my night-daydream a deep, lost memory surfaces. I remember as if it were now, the first time i successfully compiled my first program incorporating logic i wrote myself.
I lived at Blossom Terrace and attended FMU (Florida Metro University) ... I ran away from my home and all my troubles (so I thought) to the solace of chasing my dream. I was a second term student in Mr. Jenkins' Intro to Programming class. I finished my mid term 1 week and 3 days early. I remember running outside at some unforgiving hour of the night and screaming. (The Pumpking Patch Program)
I ended up only finishing that class with Mr. Jenkins. The day I told my teacher I had to leave, I know he could sense my dissapointment and he assured me that I could not loose programming. He said and I did not believe "No matter where you go, you will be a brilliant programmer". He believed in me and I left to go back and face my past.
So many years ago; I dreamed of graduating a Bsc. and becomming a programmer (for IBM none the less). I sit here in awe of myself, the world, faith and life as i know it. I just quit my job as a programmer to finish my Bsc. So much has changed ... I wish i could say such a short time... but its been a long road. I had a long road to get to my final year in UOG (University of Greenwich).
I have a new teacher now who has inspired me to use the Struts2 Application Framework to do my final project.
Its been one month now and I have not gotten the framework installed despite multiple heart poured attempts.
However though sleep deprived and taking an exam on thursday here I am still climbing this hill. I don't know about brilliant but I wish Mr. Jenkins could see me now. I have now far exceeded my own expectations from the day i wrote my first program. I try to remind myself of that when i feel unworhty or small because of compile errors or my currently failing project.
I remember the feeling of conquest, of passion, of value ... that I felt the first time I wrote a program on my own. I wrote that in BASIC. Today I write POJO in JAVA and I can follow the MVC design pattern and build in ant.
I know soon I will be programming in the new Struts2 Application Framework using Spring and Hibernate building with maven.
Until then ... I'll anticipate the feeling of "Build Successful"
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