CS373 Fall 2019-Week 10: Miguel Mendoza
What did you do this past week?
This past week I took a bit of a breather from the majority of projects that I have assigned. Since I did not have anything big due this past week I worked on a little bit of SWE but I am expecting to pick up the pace next week as we are nearing the deadline. I created a development environment for our website that reflects the changes that our dev branch currently has so we don't have to risk breaking our website when adding or modifying changes.
What will you do next week?
Next week is going to be pretty heavy on the project-side of things. I have an ethical hacking group project that we have to complete relatively soon and an AI project which I need to attempt to complete by the end of this week. And of course, we have the next phase of SWE due this week. My team has made significant progress on the website so I am planning to help since I was unavailable the majority of the past week. We have sorting figured out so we are now looking forward to doing the search functionality.
What was your experience of SQL?
I have done a couple of SQL introductions before for SQL through my business classes so I had an overview of how we are able to query tables, but I definitely learned a lot more in this class once we started going to the in-depth queries and concepts. Having an overview of relational algebra also helped me understand how these databases behave theoretically as I was never aware of concepts such as cross join and theta join.
What’s your tip-of-the-week or pick-of-the-week?
My pick of the week for this week would have to be PiVPN. PiVPN is an incredibly easy way to set up your own personal VPN if you ever need to be connected to your home network remotely and have a raspberry pi laying around somewhere. I have personally had too much trouble attempting to create a VPN host on windows or Linux environment but using PiVPN will automate the configuration process so the user doesn't have to deal with much of it, the script will instead ask the user questions regarding the VPN.

