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Hello World in ASP

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | Programming, Tech

This is how to do a basic Hello, World! in ASP.

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World in ASP</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
Response.Write("Hello, World!")
%>

</body>
</html>

There are two parts. The first is the Response, this tells the server that it needs to do something – to send something out as it were. The second part, in this case Write, is what it has to do.

ASP basics

Saturday, September 15th, 2007 | Programming, Tech

ASP code is added like scripts to HTML. You open an ASP script using the tag.

<%

You close it using the reverse.

%>

Therefore in a HTML page it would look like the following.

<html>
<head>
<title>Example script</title>
</head>
<body>

<%
' here is some ASP script
%>

</body>
</head>

Notice the use of a comment in the script.


<%
' This is an ASP comment
' Here is another
%>

The faces we let others see

Friday, September 14th, 2007 | Life

I headed to uni today for the international fresher’s fair. I met loads of people I haven’t seen for ages, people off my course, A-Soc people, union people. I got there and met more people. Every conversation was the same. “Hows it going?” “Not bad.”

I fully understand it’s like an automatic response to just say you’re fine. But you would think you eventually reach some distance from fine where you stop just telling people that you’re “not too bad.” Apparently not. Still, when you have a society to run and it’s literally days before the new term starts, braver faces are in order.

Let’s catch up

Monday, September 10th, 2007 | Life

Quite a few of us have blogs now. It’s great to see people blogging, uni involes far too much face to face contact for my liking. I don’t want to have to leave my room to find out what you did today. Blogs are the solution. I feel we’re slightly under utilising them though. We could be pinging each other like crazy.

For instance, I could make a quick comment on the fact that George has auctioned himself off as a human pet when only two months ago when I offered to purchase him in a deal for his liver, he declined my offer.

So in the spirit of cross-circle blog linkage, tell me what you are up to in the final week or so before the start of the new academic year. How do you feel about coming back to uni, what are you planning to do this year, etc, etc.

Personally, I don’t really know where I’m at. I didn’t really think about it for most of summer, then I didn’t really want the new term to arrive. Then I started to. Now I don’t really know how I feel. I can’t say I’m looking forward to the work and the general hecticness that uni brings. With work I can generally go home and stop worrying about it (to an extent at least) whereas at uni it’s never really off your mind as you always have something to think about.

I still haven’t really set a plan in stone as what I’m doing yet. I’m going to start moving my gear in any day now but I can’t really be bothered to be honest. It’s just more upheaval and stress and to be honest, I have other things on my mind. Indeed, other things on my mind than university as a whole.

Sour grapes

Friday, September 7th, 2007 | Thoughts

So, yesterday was the CompSoc EGM. It got quite an impressive turnout of 18 people which is quite an improvement on the AGM which all of 2-3 people bothered to turn up for. The (now) interim committee has made way for Sam as president, Norm as secretary, Martin as treasurer and Kieran as vice president.

So yeah, I lost out on president. Generally due to lack of support, the (to be as of two weeks) level 3 students consisted of myself, Kieran and Maths Chris. Though obviously not being in the room when the votes were cast I don’t actually know what went on. Maybe nobody at all voted for me.

It’s funny, when I was first offered the job as president, I look it relucantly as I had other commitments and was never really a big fan of CompSoc. But once I got into it I threw myself into the role and found myself with a new vibrant attitude towards the society. For the first time I really wanted to be involved in CompSoc, to give it a good future.

I thought I did to be honest. In the month or so we had the interim commitee we got events planned, we got issues sorted, we actually had a committee that wanted to run CompSoc. We had people excited about taking committee jobs. That’s the first time I’d ever seen that happen – the first AGM I witnessed saw people taking positions just because nobody else would do it. Ash wanted to be president everyone else just said “yeah, ok I’ll do it.” The second AGM, well, nobody turned up to it. Then, over summer, we actually had people wanting the jobs for the first time.

Today’s EGM was another apathetic wash-out. Kieran was unchallenged for vice president, nobody at all actually wanted to run for secretary or treasurer really, it was another case of “yeah, I might as well fill a committee place to make up numbers.” Sadly, it’s the same old story for CompSoc.

Cornwells Drive

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007 | Thoughts

If I don’t write something I’ll probably end up sat here forever. So I’ll just keep it to this.

Season 2

Saturday, September 1st, 2007 | Life

I’ve had a post entitled season 2 sitting in my drafts for a long time ago. Since last September I believe. The top paragraph of it it explains how this is a redraft because it’s been sat in there for so long. Well, I’m just rewriting it all from the start. With a whole new approach. I need I need a little more explanation.

After the success of my post, season finale which is one of three posts I am really proud of, I decided to continue the theme to look and see what themes we may see this year based on the second season of Dawson’s Creek.

The season is 60 seconds consists of Dawson and Joey getting together then soon breaking up again and ending with Joey’s dad returning from prison but Dawson finds out he is involved with drugs again and he ends up going back to jail with Joey blaiming Dawson. Abby dies, Andie enters the storyline and dates our renegade hero Pacey, Jack, the future gay guy and 5th main character comes in, Tamara briefly returns to remind us of the past.

I never got round to publishing the original post because I couldn’t really make the pieces fit. While Si really entered the storyline this year he turned out to be heterosexual, or at least, hasn’t come out in time. Our will they won’t they couple never officially got together. Nobody died. The symmetry just wasn’t falling into place.

Then a few weeks ago I had a thought. A spark of possibility appeared before me. Perhaps the season didn’t have to run from the start of term time to the end of term time. Perhaps it ran from the start of term to the start of next year’s term – in which case it isn’t over yet.

If you include the summer period then a hole host of possibilites open up. Our will they won’t they couple have been seperated albeit under different circumstances. Break ups, make ups, sex, lies, the drama has flown thick and fast over the summer. All we really need is a season finale. Some big event to leave us on edge for the start of the new academic year. And we have two weeks to get it.

So why am I writing all this now? Why after all this time of the post sitting in my drafts is it finally seeing daylight? Well, I think I may have found one. Maybe, just maybe.

Sleep patterns are for the weak

Saturday, September 1st, 2007 | Life

Hmm, to go to bed or not to go to bed. I went to bed at like this time yesterday. Having finally got to sleep at 2:30am and gotten up for work at 4:30am. Still I’m back on nights tomorrow and Monday before being on an open again on Wednesday. Then a close again on Thursday.

As term draws near I don’t know whether I should be quoting Natalie Imbruglia’s Counting Down the Days or Muse’s Our Time Is Running Out. It’s been a long summer. It feels like a moment ago but the conscience mind but my body is finally starting to feel the strain. It’s been an interesting summer and I think I’ve managed to set quite a few personal records – 2 open closes, 7 closes in a row, 16 consecutive days at work, 17 consecutive shifts at work.

Beat that, the real Leanne!

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