It's 2am and I'm going nuts over Rails. Can't get the scaffolding to display properly if an id is not autonumber. Blah. Ian I hope you can help me. Ian's the supervisor of this subject, but somehow I feel he is busier with other things. There's no textbook on rails either that's available to borrow, so I am .. dependent on google. Waste of time this is!!
I swear by the time I finish this semester will be an incredible achievement by anyone's standards. I don't think people can live or stay sane with that amount of work that I'm doing.
People need to think about their future more. My brother has no idea what he's doing in the future, other than study. Everyone only plans for the moment. I told my mum this and she said she'll advise him, with what? To work harder? Where's that going to get you? Uni work, so much of it's irrelevant. I wish it were true, but unless you apply everything you learnt everyday, you won't remember much if not all of it. Sometimes it's not what you've learnt, but what you apply what you've learnt, that gets you anywhere. A lot of technology stuff that's being taught in uni is way WAY outdated. And if it's taught? Well it's crap because they get crap lecturers to teach it. They should get people who are leaders in their field to teach it, but they're not going to do that even though they have millions. Alas alack, one can only depend on themselves. Rails would be a great subject to teach, but too bad the universities won't teach it till.. YEARS later, if ever. I can remember back in 2003 one of the lecturers said "next semester" they would be introducing this new subject to teach X, well fast forwad to 2006 and still zip!!! Another instance that I can remember was learning programming in Windows 3.1 when Windows 95 or 98 was released. It was plain stupid, when I asked the lecturer why he didn't reply, I suppose it was his way of saying heck I don't care, I'm just being paid to teach. Yes I'm in a bit of a complaining mood. But makes it easier for me to differentiate myself from the rest... I hate it how people say I only make X amount of dollars when I deserve more, when they do nothing to make themselves stand out, do nothing to make themselves improve, but complain as if the world owes them a living. If I'm a boss of some big company, and there's A, B, and C, and all of them are the same with skills, I'll pick the one with best value for money, a.ka. cheapest labour. It's only common sense. Don't these people think?!??
Anyway I've had enough of complaining, time to sleep...
