Timetable Builder (TTB) is a schedule permutator - supplied with a list of course selections, the system can generate a collection of possible timetables which are maximally compatible with the parameters specified.

In early TTB, there was nothing but the core engine - a command-line Java application which read in a list of user-selected course and section ids from a text file. The engine would make a combination from this list of courses alone.

Billy asked me to try out this new service, and after sending him a list of courses, it gave me back a plausible schedule, and I was thoroughly impressed. I became really curious about how the system works, and after seeing how much detail his team put into handling even the wildest course selections - waitlists, two-termers, and distance-eds.

You'd be a fool to not realize this potential! It was approaching that time of year, just after classes had ended for the winter, when we decided to get the ball rolling. Billy had already formed an initial dev team, with David S. taking care of the engine's I/O and Tina L. as advertising. I then joined their team, along with Ivy M. and Grace L. for UI design and templates. It wasn't long (ok, 280 [wo]man-hours) before we had TTB version 1.

It was built using PHP 4 (had to be compatible with the ultra-inexpensive host we had) and was actually hosted on two separate servers - the front-end would connect via HTTP to our back-end server, which was an old desktop running Windows XP, a HTTP server, a MySql server, and several instances of the Timetable Builder engine. It was dubbed the "closet server" as it sat literally in the closet of our residence. It actually heated up the closet quite a bit, and since I only like my clothing so crisp, it ended up sitting under my development desktop.

In this version, we already populated a database with near-mirror copies of current course availablilities on the Student course calendar, and use this data to allow users to simply select which courses they would like to take. There were a couple additional parameters, like a preferred time range and maximizing days off, as well as the ability for your account to save work lists and their corresponding parameters.

As a general workflow, we wanted:

1. the front-end would pass worklist requests to the back-end
2. the back-end drops them into a queue
3. several instances of timetable builder engines (dubbed "busy workers") periodically check the queue for jobs
4. busy workers compile possible timetables and register that in the database
5. the front-end detects the timetable has been built and fetches them for displayal

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My family has had high hopes of being in the cabin for Thanksgiving.  My boys have never deer hunted in West Virginia, and this would be the first time for them.  I have not deer hunted in West Virginia since the early 70's.  We have not spent Thanksgiving in West Virginia since about 1985.  You can hardly imagine our disappointment.

We also intended by this fall to start building another cabin on the same lot, which will be much larger.  We wanted to have the foundation done this month so that we would be up out of all the soft ground and mud we encountered this spring in the construction of this cabin.  We would have framed it during the winter and been ready to go by summer.  Does anyone have past experiences with proceeding with shell construction of cabins during the winter months in West Virginia?

Regardless of our plans and what in our minds seems to be a setback we look toward our God, King and Savior for guidance.  We trust that God has a better plan than ours, and we will be content with his pace.

Teddy

mc

Tonight someone is having a good time close to The Cottage. I can hear music beating through the night, high notes flying over the low notes. And I find it a sound which pleases me.

It is good to be safely ensconced in my little home.

It is good to know my neighbours are having fun.

It is good to feel the mellowness of this early summer night caressing my skin.

How wonderful that the wide open spaces of the spirit may be filled so brim-fully with such small things as night time music!

I am content.

May you have a wonderful weekend!

Love,

Pippa

"And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away."
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

even if you put a goal, like getting a new job, car, if you are a student you want to pass the year, when you achieve those goals , you turn back to the satisfaction issue, and still you are hungry for something,

every one of us feels so , i experienced  that a lot, but here's the solution

read the following from john 4 , and you will find the solution

from 1 to 16

John 4
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
 1The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
 4Now he had to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

 7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" 8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

 9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

 11"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

 13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

 15The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

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Jesus asked the woman to give him water, then she asked him how you are asking me this because i am samaritan , Jesus told her,  if you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink you would have asked him and he would have giving you a living water,, she told him how you are going to give me water and you don't have something to draw the water and the well is deep,  those lines tells that when you feel like you don't want anything from Jesus , and you don't need him in your life, you should know that you don't know Jesus and you don't know what can he do  because if you knew him you would have ask him to give you from his water, this water is not from the world ( where the well represents the world, Jesus wants you to know that, all the success in your job, in your friendships, in your car , in your money , all those things are given from the well , where they satisfies you for a while and then you come back to take  more, those things never satisfies ) , God wants to give you his water, which is not from the well ( since he had nothing to draw the water with , and the well is deep) God's water is not from the earth , they are heavenly gifts , and they are not money , or work or those world's water, they are from heaven, like your service, your spiritual talents that are given to each one of us, following Jesus  and he giving you his heaven , his deeds, his blessings, is the only thing that will satisfy, and it will not just satisfy , it will make you a spring welling up to eternal life,

so if you seek satisfaction, seek Jesus, know him , and it is easy, he said that he is knocking on every ones door , whoever opens he will enter his life , when you know Jesus ,and taste him , you will ask for his water, and he will be so happy to give it to you , then you will never need to come back to the world's well, and you will have a spring inside of you  that is  willing up to eternal life,

and your food will be  " john 4
 34"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work""

God shared the answer with us, he is the only one who satisfies, not the work, not the money, not the new car , nothing from the world is going to satisfy.

to read the whole chapter , here's the link http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=50&chapter=4&version=31

God bless

I headed up into gold country a couple of weeks ago to help a cycling friend celebrate his 60th birthday.  He lives on a farm in the country now and there were two lambs, just a few days old, gamboling in the paddock.  The sun was out and it cast a spell of enchantment.  Everyone seemed to be in a good mood.

The birds go berserk at this time of year.  The squawkers get up at first light, but they also make sure you know when the sun is going down.  Magpies dive-bomb cyclists under the mistaken impression that their nests are under attack. Lorikeets and parrots fly in colorful formations, but the bell birds are my favorites.  Riding through trees full of bell birds is like being delivered into a temple in Bangkok.  The tones are resonant and beautiful and stay with you long after the birds have gone.

The Arts Festival and the racing season have just started.  I mentioned in a previous post that this city is simply inundated with events.  I managed to catch two films in the Italian Film Festival but I missed at least two other festivals and the State Fair.  I stumbled across the furniture exhibition of the city's Fringe Festival (perhaps its least interesting feature), One look at the catalog of offerings put me into a catatonic state.  I was simply overwhelmed.

We did make it out of the house to see some dance/theater last night and we have tickets for an evening with Philip Glass doing the poetry of Leonard Cohen.  We have to give our favorite Montreal poet a hearing. It is a city that has given us many good memories and Cohen is its most unlikely songbird.

I just got a lovely email from a friend there who is soaking up some balmy fall weather, thanks to a warm surge from down south.  He's a Scot, a golfer naturally enough. Some foxes have been frequenting the golf course of late and a few have become quite tame. Not a good thing for the long-term health of the animals, but it allowed him to get a fine photograph.

It is difficult to ignore the local news, though.  It lands on the doorstep every morning and itches like a patch of poison ivy.

The bitter debate on Victoria's controversial abortion bill continued this week.  The tragic fate of a lovely, 21 year-old Australian girl who disappeared in Dubrovnik on September 18 was just revealed.  Another Qantas flight turned into roller coaster ride when it plunged 1000 feet over Western Australia and had to make an emergency landing.  A quarter of the planet's mammals are under threat of extinction; Australian mammals are the most at risk in the developed world.  The Australian dollar got hammered.

If you want to come see the wildlife or the race horses, now would be a good time. It's Spring and the weather is perfect.

pilih-pilih yah yang itu aja display spring bed :D barang nya bagus dibanding kluaran sekarang. wkkkkk

dah sekian dan trimakasih

oh ya.. hari ni kerja nya ngapain yah...? backup data, rapikan data gudang (list) emmmm ambil FIT04 isi dirumah. hihihi. ISO = iso iso wae

Clicking this sentence will take you to the new and improved gallery page.

To conclude in my usual fashion, here is a recently rediscovered picture of mine, dating back to the month of March. Increased processing abilities have made this shot possible:

Spring blossoms - Pentax K100D, Soligor 70-210

Thanks for visiting!

Dan

Found this article from SG Entrepreneurs thus do give them full credit, however decided to put the article here in hope that more aspiring entrepreneurs might find some light in this current financial crisis. This is the official link to SPRING website:

1. Polytechnics, ITE colleges, junior colleges and secondary schools can now tap on a $4.5 million fund to develop programmes and activities to engage students in entrepreneurship learning opportunities. The Young Entrepreneurs Scheme for Schools or YES! Schools will be launched by Mr Lee Yi Shyan, Minister of State for Trade and Industry and Minister in charge of Entrepreneurship at the Spirit of Enterprise Awards Ceremony 2008 on 10 October 2008.

. YES! Schools taps on the $25 million Entrepreneurial Talent Development Fund (ETDF). ETDF, which was first launched in July 2004, provides seed money to students with sound business plans. To-date, 117 students and alumni from nine polytechnics and universities have tapped on the fund for 46 business ventures.

3. Available over a five-year period, YES! Schools will provide full funding to support structured entrepreneurial learning activities in schools. Each year, the schools will have the following amounts to tap on to fund their projects:
a. Up to $100,000 per polytechnic;
b. Up to $50,000 per ITE college; and
c. Up to $10,000 per junior college/secondary school.

4. SPRING Singapore, who will manage the fund, will evaluate projects submitted by schools based on the following criteria:
• Entrepreneurship and innovative elements: The proposal should highlight the innovative approach of the project in entrepreneurship learning;

• Holistic approach: The proposal should cover a comprehensive programme on the entrepreneurship learning activities to cultivate a mindset for enterprise among the students and/or teachers;

• Hands-on (experiential) learning component: The proposal should demonstrate the feasibility of the project and outline the steps taken to ensure effective learning outcomes for students. Projects should also require students to put to practical use the lessons learnt; and

• Reach of project: The proposal should indicate the number of students who will benefit from the project.

5. One important component of the programme is that the schools should have a mentor, preferably an experienced entrepreneur who has gone through the journey, and can guide and share experiences with the teachers and students. Mentors could be sought from school advisory boards and alumni, as well as organisations such as the Action Community for Entrepreneurship or Spirit of Enterprise.

6. Through YES! Schools, SPRING Singapore, with the support of the Ministry of Education, will support schools that have a comprehensive plan to develop entrepreneurial mindsets and skills through ‘learning by doing’.

7. “Singapore needs to have more of our homegrown enterprises with their own creative and innovative products and services competing in the world market. While SPRING has put in place schemes to groom start-ups and young companies, we need to go back one step and look at encouraging our youths to be more innovative and entrepreneurial and there is no better place to start than the schools. The YES! Schools will help to increase awareness of entrepreneurship among youths and educators and inspire our young people to try out new ideas,” said Mr Png Cheong Boon, Chief Executive, SPRING Singapore.

8. The target is to support 30 schools in the pilot year and scale up to 80 schools in the subsequent years.

9. Schools interested in applying for YES! Schools can do so from 1 November by contacting SPRING via email: yes_schools@ spring.gov.sg. SPRING will be conducting briefing sessions for schools on the fund in November.

About SPRING Singapore
SPRING Singapore is the enterprise development agency for growing innovative companies and fostering a competitive SME sector. We work with partners to help enterprises in financing, capabilities and management development, technology and innovation, and access to markets. As the national standards and accreditation body, SPRING also develops and promotes internationally-recognised standards and quality assurance to enhance competitiveness and facilitate trade.

Please visit www.spring.gov.sg for more information and news about SPRING Singapore.

For media enquiries, please contact:
Marion Abraham
Senior Manager, Corporate Communications
SPRING Singapore
Direct: 6279 3617
Mobile: 9750 2903
E-mail: marion_abraham@spring.gov.sg

This was tonight's dinner. Absolutely fantastic. We cooked these on our gas BBQ - a pretty old gal but does the job. We heated the BBQ. Drizzled some olive oil. Sprinkled some mutton chops with lemon pepper/salt mix. Placed seasoned-side down. Seasoned tops with more lemon pepper mix, and put a few torn up oregano leaves on top. When drops of blood started to show on the top of the chops, we turned them over, and cooked for another 5 minutes. This made them medium-rare (to our liking). Obviously cook them less or longer according to your own preferences. We served them with iceberg lettuce, olives, chopped tomatoes, a chopped carrot each, and juicy lemon quarters. The lemon made the chops taste even better - I'm so happy we have another year here; the lemons alone are worth staying for!

Zucchinis

Zucchini

Marigolds

Lazy Housewife beans

Lazy housewife beans around plum tree. The half-bag of sheep/cow manure around the tree should help things along!

Peas are planted in a row on this fence line - the bamboo stakes are for a trellis once they germinate. The inner soil area of this bed will be where I plant the tomatoes and zucchinis.

Radishes

A tiny part of the 4 rows of purple carrots I've planted :) I'm planning on later growing some normal orange ones inbetween the rows.

One of the lone peas that have sprouted; that I put in nearly 2 months ago. Barely any germinated - not entirely sure why. May be because this lot were planted in the same place as last years' lot. Hopefully the new plantings along the fenceline will do better.

One of the many things in a garden that are so small and easy to walk past, but so beautiful if you stop and look closely. It's a symbol for the garden on whole right now - things have taken a while to get going, but after photographing all my seedlings up close, you see how amazing it is that they've sprouted at all into what they are. Great shapes & colours.

Mizuna

Silverbeet

Lettuce - green

Lettuce - red

Wong Bok Cabbage

Kale no1

Kale, no2

Mizuna, planted a couple of weeks ago in a polystyrene box

Lettuce, also in styrofoam box

Kale in box

and... more kale in a box!

Lichen on the plum tree trunk.

Loquats

Flowers and fruit on the small mandarin tree that had no flowers, no fruit, and yellow leaves when we arrived.

Lemon heaven

Baby grapes

More baby grapes, and furry newly unfurled leaves

Future apricot jam

I'm not alone in this line of thought; John Mayer wrote "St. Patrick's Day" and was probably thinking the same thing:

No way November will see our goodbye
When it comes to December it's obvious why
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time
And come January we're frozen inside
Making new resolutions a hundred times
February, won't you be my valentine?
And we'll both be safe 'til St. Patrick's Day

Maybe this is exacerbated here in the beautiful state of Colorado, a place in which all four seasons are gloriously lived out to the fullest. We experience nature's most nuanced forms: the amber and golden hues of the trees in the autumn, the cold and crisp bite of the rain in the spring. The anticipation of a looming extreme, whether it be the dead of winter or the dry heat of the summer, can drive emotions and actions and intentions off the charts.

Call yourself a rebel, but whether you've acted on it or just thought about it, nobody can completely escape it. On another musical note -- in somewhat of an ode to the Mile High Music Festival -- Jason Mraz nailed it on the head when he sang in the acoustic version of "I'm Yours":

It's our god-intended right to be loved, loved, loved, loved... loved.

God-intended or not, love works in mysterious ways. As this year comes to a close, I will most likely face a bitterly cold winter. But this time, it's for the better; I'll be fresh and ready and far less naïve when the warm weather rolls around.

How pretty can a patch of swampy water be? I love the lillies at my local pond and will be going back every few days to try and catch them at different times of day and in different light.

The mallard ducks who usually inhabit the pond have all but left, I guess it must be hard to swim in all of that foliage!

Today: a link to a product which I have been part of making (just so you know I haven't totally been lazy, even though I haven't been progressing the printmaking). It's downloadable printable music theory lessons, for music teachers or substitute teachers taking music lessons, at about Grade 8 level. So if that is you, or if you know someone who might need such a thing, it's a handy website/product. It's also in my blog roll.

While we are talking about work I have done, I am currently trying to do webby technical stuff to my card site to make it suitable for people to visit. Also I have 12 designs but only like 6 on the site so far. Also Tangerine Epiphany is really hard to type in, so I have purchased tangerinemeg.com...much better! Will keep you updated on that.

Along the way I am learning more about SEO (search engine optimisation) so hopefully that will help get some visitors. I bought the Itty Biz SEO Ninja ebook. That link is to a pretty long blog post but if the book interests you there is a "buy now" button at the end.

I am loving the warm spring weather; running or riding in the mornings enjoying all the flowers, and the weird and wonderful spring scents waftin' around. Now the vegies will be extra grateful for getting watered I guess. All my plants get washing machine rinse water enhanced with bokashi compost magic. Lucky them! I can see the luxuriant growth.

Hope you guys are enjoying your lives,
Meg

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Blessings on the Blossom

Blessings on the Fruit

Blessings on the leaves and stems

and Blessings on the roots.

Blessings on your Morning tea.

ruffles, pleats and tiers

this girly trend was a hit from anna sui, christopher kane, galliano and lagerfeld. toughen up these frills with a tough motorcycle jacket or pair a stiff blazer with your ruffles for a menswear feel.

full skirts

as seen at lanvin, leulla and miu miu, the full skirt is best worn on the natural waist. this is a great trend for you if you have large hips that you want to play down.

yellow

yellow popped on the runways at abaete, alexander mcqueen, chris benz and pucci. wake yourself up with a whole yellow ensemble for spring! or, add a yellow accent to any outfit with an accessory, like shoes or a clutch.

loose pants

this is my favorite trend for spring. finally! some comfort for my poor gams! i loved phillip lim, chloe, diesel, cavalli and stella mccartney.

circus

at betsey johnson, marc by marc and topshop unique, some serious fun went down on the runways. you can add this playful trend into your wardrobe by incorporating humor into your outfits. remember, bright colors, stripes and checks rule for this trend.

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Free best friend photo contest seeks entries. Win $50 gift certificate to How Cute is That Boutique of Spring Texas.

Spring, TX – October 1, 2008 – ExploreSpring.com and How Cute is That Boutique announces date for 1^st "Best Friend Forever" – October 1, 1008. Do you have a special friendship? Then put your picture taking to the test and send in your best photo of you and your best friend.

Simply logon on to www.explorespring.com and upload your photo between October 1 and October 31, 2008. The contest is run completely online. All of the entries we receive are voted on by our site viewers. The top vote getter as of midnight October 31, 2008 wins the prize. Entries and voting will continue the entire month. The winner of the contest will win a $50 gift certificate with How Cute is That Boutique, custom ExploreSpring.com Gift Pack a "featured winner" photo on the ExploreSpring.com Web site located at http://www.explorespring.com.

The contest will be starting soon, so get those cameras out and start shooting. Entries will only be accepted online from viewers in the Houston Metropolitan Area. The contest entry form can be accessed by visiting: http://www.explorespring.com/pages/Photo_Contest.  

About ExploreSpring.com

ExploreSpring.com is a locally owned City Directory for Spring, Texas where you can find all kinds of services - from restaurants and automobiles to shopping and home services. The online community guide and business directory for Spring and Klein TX, providing local news, real estate, jobs, advertising, calendar, events and more.ExploreSpring.com provides a central online location 24 hours a day to find information relevant to the Spring Community. The web site is located at http://www.explorespring.com.

About How Cute is That Boutique

How Cute is That Boutique (H.C.I.T.B) is an excellent place to shop for the current and trendy accessories for all girly girls. Whether it is a pair of earrings with a matching necklace, or just a nice bracelet and earrings to complete the statement for that new outfit or that new pair of shoes, How Cute Is That Boutique can compliment whatever your needs are. The company Web site is located at http://www.howcuteisthatboutique.net/.

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Bem Gmedouye gave a talk on the Microsoft MVC framework. He’s ex LBi, who I recently spoke to about PureMVC. A bit different here as this one is the .Net based framework from Microsoft. Bem claimed to have the first MVC (Microsoft) based web site up and running at the Morning Advertiser. The framework is using lambda functions in the View and the Spring.Net expressions in the Controller to give strongly typed View data, rather than using dictionary methods. jQuery is used for validation methods.
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The final framework is available at cacdframework.co.uk and was used to give the content management structure of the Morning Advertiser site. Looked as though it worked well and is woth investigation. The site looks clean and flexible.