Today was a little bit different day. Dr. Bernstein came to visit us at UBS and after I handed in my project and we tested it, I had some time to chill. Because the previews days I stayed late in the bank, today I letf around 3:30 and we didn’t go back the usual route, but on the ferry. We took the train to Bridgeport, from there the ferry to Port Jefferson and from there by car to Oakdale. Vassil and I went to Red Lobster to eat something and then we saw Ocean’s Thirteen. The movies wasn’t bad. Now I’m waiting for Dary to come back from work and we will go to bed.

Today I spent most of my time working with AJAX. Also we changed the structure of the project I’m working on now, because it became too complicated for it’s purpouse. The web page is pretty dynamic now and by the end of the day I was happy with the result. I was clicking here and there watching how the page changes without refreshing. I also noticed that the source code does not get updated, only the browser updates the actual appearance. Also XHTML 1.1 and AJAX are not best friends, howerver XHTML 1.0 T is pretty friendly . On my way back I stopped by the deli to pick up an order of chicken souvlaki and greek sallad which I enjoyed a little later. Tomorrow I’ll be going back to LI with Dr. Bernstein on the ferry and should be interesting. If it’s not raining I buy something from the store and again try to cook something

Today I was looking at AJAX. In a few words it’s a combination of HTML, Javascript and ASP or PHP. Of course I picked php. My goal was to create a dynamic form, which, based on input, adds more input fields. I went pretty well. We couldn’t test today, but I think tomorrow will be the day.

Around 6 came Vassil and we went here and there till around 10, when I came home and I think I’ll be going to bed.

I have to tell you that a good sleep realy matters for your productivity during the day. Yesterday I was too tired at work and I couldn’t do much. However last night I went to bed around 11 and today I woke up at 7:30 very fresh. As a result of that I not only came up with a good solution to my new project but even implemented the better part of it – the hardest. All I have to do is write a small web page that will be an interface to the script and I’ll be done with this one too. Nice. Also, a little before I left the guys found a bug in the build script they were using and I fixed that before I left. Very productive day. I’ll try to go to bed on time.

1/3 of the Internship is now history. Today started the second third with a new project. It is not as straight forward as the first one, but after a nice sleep tonight I shild be able to come up with an elegant solution tomorrow and start working on it.

On my way home, after work, I stopped by the local movie theater and got a ticket for the fantastic 4 – the silver guy, which turned out well. I might watch something else this week. After the movie I did my laundry and now it’s about time to go to bed.