lecture week10

hahaha.. i did not attend the lecture last weds and feeling guilty after all..
but i manage my mood not to be so guilty so that i can keep postponing doing lecture online until just today.. lol

there are some points i really like in the lecture..
VARK is definitely a good point to make in this subject! and the last story that POD shares is my second favorite..

Im a bit sad knowing that i am not included as the VK person, despite i am an RK person.. but anyway, i dont really love pivot table, so what?
i start asking my friends the same question about buying DVD player and found out... *surprise surprise* only 1 out of 8 is a VK person.. lol.. let just say, they are a trully BI person..

The story about bar code things really interesting to me.. how could that happen? it must be not enough training provided to the users.. haha
but what, again, make me sad is that POD should have shared that story long time ago in one of my bachelor's subj (either IE or SDI), but it's just me not attending it..
sorry sorry..

anyway, got to go back to my asgm again.. feeling much better after the lecture online thing..
PS: i think POD always say 10 or 15mins break but end up having 5minutes extra.. no matter how long he says it suppose to be..

week10

woo-hoo it's week10 and i got a lot to write about here..
i think one of the reason why POD urge people to blog is that it can reflect whether or not you are trully committed to the subject.. when u really "in to it" you will definitely have a lot to write about, even though you don't feel like writing anything.. means that: i have not been committed enough these last few weeks that i don't really blog properly..

ok enough bubbling.. lets start!

i start this week by posting a tweet saying that i hate pivot tables.. regardless the assignment, i just feels like saying it.. (what a weak statement!)
all of a sudden i got a direct message from @infoholic asking if i need any help..
of course as a good student i should not say no.. and i did not say no either.. besides, i have done some major progress in my assignment and was stuck as the cube i develop can not be deployed.. so we decided to meet for some consultation at 4pm, 2hours before my tute..

coming with confidence, i told him my problem regarding my cubes, of course equipped with my file ready to be shown whenever he's ready.. But instead, @infoholic start asking me regarding my design and documentation progress (which what am i supposed to be doing for 1st assignment).. he asked me about ADAPT or Thomsen diagram which i should included in the assignment and a user manual and more and more and more, causing me major panic attack...

i quickly go and read the article regarding ADAPT diagram (i decided to use it since i can use the template available for Visio) and start sketching out my design.. Btw, the link for the visio template in moodle is not working, i have to go to google it first to get it.. I went to the tute feeling much better and shows him the dimensions and draft of the hierarchies that i might have..
fiuh.. that was a lot to think about.. again im feeling left out.. (esp with the bombastic amount of questions happening all the time in the moodle forum)

ew yeah, and the error that i got regarding the deployment of my cube.. i finally get over it.. it's just that i have to choose to use inherit instead of authentication so i dont need to put password again and again..

now, the more i talk with my classmates.. the more i feel unsecured regarding my design.. i talk to Steve a lil bit regarding this, but has not feel satisfied yet.. so... it is about the number of dimensions that we can make, and major differences between dimensions and hierarchies.. and then what hierarchies should i have in there..

i decided to finish up my design first, and thinking to email POD asking if he is available for consultation later on.. *i hope he can make it.. *

ok ok, enough for now.. let's put some thought for the design..

Week9

i skipped again, yea.. i am a bad student.. but considering how many students have Steve claimed as his stalker and how many questions might arise in these time where all of a sudden students become really active and lastly considering how many and how long can Steve handles all of those in one hour tute, so i think i am not that bad.. i am helping Steve in fact.. i should say i am a good student then..

up to this time (which supposed to be week 9, YES i am doing a week 9 blog where it suppose to be week10) i have not having any further progress regarding the assignment besides that I have read the assignment case study..
I promised myself to be a better and student, especially in time management from the following week..

what make this week different from previous one is that I did the tute exercise at uni the next day after the tute.. which makes me feels a bit better..
i got a rough, i should say really rough, idea about what the assignment is going to be..
so, once again, finger cross everything is going to be all right and done on-time..

Week8

To be honest,
i skipped the whole lecture and tutorial this week..
Has not feeling so well half of this week up till yesterday..
Really is a good timing to get sick..

Will put nothing here..! eerrrr...

I will try to catch up with the tute start of this week and also lecture..
I had a scheme through it and seems like "statistical" :)

week7

i am such a lazy ass.. been so lazy almost on every single things that i suppose to do this week..
or let me say last week, since my desktop time says 1.07 am Monday 7September'09 already..
haven't done much with the assignment.. will really start to continue doing it from tomorrow.. will quickly recap all of the other bits of information needed.. and geez, my other subj assignments as well..

now, week7 has been all about multi-dimension database.. it obviously looks big to me now.. i've start with just database basic knowledge at first.. being over confidence with taking this subject.. start feeling nervous now.. but one thing i know, POD is a real-natural-talented person in explaining stuff.. you can see from the way he put the step by step tutorial.. it is a real detail one..
i know some expert might see it as a waste of time, or too boring, or just simply too long.. (i used to think so for the studio in previous undergrad subject i took 2years ago) but i found it really helpful here...

the tutorial will be a continuing tutorial starting from this week, so we need to take care of our folder properly... and i decided to do it on desktop on the computer lab.. (trying to ignore the trouble that might arise last week when i try to save it on my personal U drive).. and save the whole folder later... so next time i will just copy the whole folder to the desktop again.. *fingercross i would never forget to copy the folder after i finish the tute for the following weeks.. cause files and folders on the comp lab desktop will automatically be swipped off once u log-out.. hahahaha

wish me luck.. for assignments as well.. =)
cheeerssss