For the past few weeks I have been working on a website for a Sport Management class on Facilities & Planning. Today is the day of the event, and the conclusion of it will bring relief to many people including me. The primary focus of the class is to plan a charity banquet. The charity is Charlie Batch's Best of the Batch program which benefits youth in disadvantaged communities in Pittsburgh and the US. Even though I am not in the class, I was responsible for the event website http://www.banquentintheburgh.com/. I was honored when they asked me to make it, and will be forever grateful to the members of the class.
I learned a lot from making this website. It is the first time I used Lightbox and IPTC data embedded into photos in the wild. PHP handled generating the code which Lightbox requires quite well. The content of the gallery page is being entirely generated from the folder hierarchy which means adding to the page is as simple as putting a folder in a specific location. Through making it, I ran into the curious caption bug of Lightbox for which there is no perfect fix. You can check the source for my fix.
This is the first time the end of the semester feels no different from the rest of the semester. It is quite strange to be so close to graduation and yet feel like things will be no different a month from now even when I know they will. First of all, I will no longer be a student. Second, and closely related to the first, I will lose my part time job working for the university. Third, I will be living in my own house. In the past, all this real world stuff seemed like it was such a big deal. However, now it doesn't seem that way anymore.
Oh, and when my work from the video game programming class is ready for release it definitely will show up here.
