Internship Blog

Day by day log of my internship at Eurocontrol.

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Jun 6^th

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Blink and you Next it!

Jun 5^th

Today I discovered that Opera have already released the beta version of their browser (released 29th of May) with the new rendering engine Blink from the Google fork of Webkit. Opera is my prefered browser purely because the developer tools (Opera Dragonfly) are far superior than that of other browsers. My first impression of the browsers was that the UI was faster to respond and to act. Great so far... I hit Ctrl + Shift + I to load up Dragonfly and to my horror I found the Chromium inspecter load up. NOOOOOO! Luckily Dragonfly will be ported over when it's ready for the new version... Conclusion: I'm shocked, I like, I'm uncertain, but I think it is quite possibly the best that could ever have happened to Opera as a browser, web developers in general and in tern the web as a result.

Before making this discovery I was working on the FABEC Design documentation for Nadine. I made changes to a copy of the standard design document to save time and started taking some screenshots of the design in the FABEC module.

After the Opera discovery, David called me asking about my opinion about a user interface another intern was building. I think I made some valuble suggestions that they hadn't thought of and we looked up the feasibility of some of these; one of which was having a default text/instruction in a select box without it being an option in the drop down list. A look around presented us with a possibility but the default text was still in the drop down list (grayed out). I had a valuble contribution at this point. I showed them the child slector in css '>'. I added a class (hide) to our default description and then with 'select:focus>.hide{display:none}' we had our desired result. Strangly enough everyone including myself had an astonished look when it worked (things never work on the first run).

The beginning of the end

Jun 3^rd

I sat down with David in the afternoon to cover the remaining JSDoc commenting. Within 45 mins the JSDoc comments for all 3 API scprits was complete. Woooh! I'm happy to say that was the last time I would have to read through the thousands of lines of javascript (approx 3500). All that remains is to compile the JSDoc file and attach it to the completed documentation FDPs. Nadine re-opened a task this morning which had been cast aside. At her request I went back and checked the e-mail exchange related to the task (webapp best practices/guidelines doc) The last communication from Patrick made it clear that he didn't have time to reply at the current time because he was on his way to Berlin but that I should expect a reply after/within 10 days.

Mend

May 31^st

29

May 30^th

29

May 29^th

Multiiiii tassssking!

May 28^th

Sun day on Monday!

May 27^th

Whole Day

May 24^th

Growing

May 23^rd

NO.

May 22^nd

Monday, no Wait Tuesday!

May 21^st

Friday, Post Birthday, Long Weekend

May 17^th

Camtasia Re-Fresher

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Apend

Apr 30^th

Return

Apr 29^th

Return

Apr 26^th

Commenting that Javascript

Apr 25^th

Return

Apr 24^th

Return

Apr 23^rd

Car, Week off, Ferry crossings and much more

Apr 12^th

Camtasia Re-Fresher

Apr 11^th

Marchend

Mar 29^st

Spring is here!

Mar 4^nd

Starch

Mar 1^st

Return from Prague

Feb 28^th

Return from Prague

Feb 27^th

Return from Prague

Feb 26^th

Back to work!

Feb 25^th

1/12

Jul 30^th

Jumped on the train to Paris straight after finishing work. Sadly, as I'll be at the funeral for my grand auntie tomorrow this will have been the last working day of the month for me. I find now some time to look back at the month which has flown by.

New Arrival

Jul 13^th

It's going to be a busy day I'm writing this in the morning because I won't have time to write anything this evening and I'll probably forget or have other things to write about on Monday. A lot of work to do between now and 16:36 which is when I've worked out I need to leave in order to catch the 16 bus to the Airport where I've planned to meet Daniel (Computer Science student from Kent and my neighbour for the foreseable 50 weeks to come) for his arrival to Luxembourg. I'll be helping him find his way to our flats in Rollingergrund then we'll have dinner at the landlords restaurant on the ground floor before going into town to introduce him to some english or at least english speaking friends I've made (Perhaps over a few beers).

End-week, Weekend?

Jul 10^th

End-week, Weekend?

Jul 9^th

End-week, Weekend?

Jul 6^th

I noticed people choosing to leave from 2.45pm with most of the building being empty by 4pm. I myself called it a day at 4.30 to enjoy the sun and so this now makes it a week at Eurocontrol.

More Introductions

Jul 5^th

Day 4 at Eurocontrol. Following the next part of the induction program prepared by Vincent.

Late Bus? No problem

Jul 4^th

Before even getting to work I had already accomplished something. I had managed to workout which bus to take in the morning to give myself plenty of time to catch the connecting bus even if the bus from my house was late and so day 3 at Eurocontrol begins.

More Introductions

Jul 3^rd

Day 2 at Eurocontrol had us following the next part of the induction program prepared by Vincent. We also moved into our office and computers were setup there during the day. After meeting a couple more of the staff betweem the coffee break and lunch we found ourselves at our computers in the office; our office. We logged in with our usernames and default passwords before beginning the task of setting up the computers for us to work from tomorrow. It became quickly aparent that we would be developing in the browser and notepad as the Adobe suite wasn't yet installed and with no admin rights we weren't able to install any programs such as text editors or anything else that didn't have a portable version. I also took 10 minutes at the end of the day to study the timing of the busses in the morning. I had planned ahead to get to work very early but I saw my connecting bus leave just as my first bus arrived at the stop. I think this can be optimised so I don't have to wait 20 minutes.

Internship Begins

Jul 2^nd

Day 1 at Eurocontrol. Upon arriving in the morning the reception desk called the current intern Jasmeen S to fetch me from the lobby. She showed myself and the other intern Dimitris T briefly around the building before introducing us to our supervisor, Vincent S. Vincent had prepared a program for us to follow during the day which involved sitting down with a lot of the staff for short introductions before the staff morning coffee break at 10.40ish followed by a couple more introductions before lunch at 11.45. At first I had high hopes for lunch at the cantine. A choice between 2 dishes which change everyday or pasta with choice of 3 different sauces also changing everyday. The plate of carbonara came to €6.40 which was a bit of a shock. Dimitris and myself sat with our supervisor, our team member Eric M as well as David R. and Nadine H who are part of a team we work very closely to or so we were told. Our program had us meeting a few more people during the afternoon one of which wasn't able to see us because she was sick. Later in the afternoon we went to our welcome party just over the border of Germany where Nadine lives. We got to know each other a little, drank and ate pizza before heading back to Luxembourg. Ouff, that was a long day.