college

Well, the last couple weeks of the semester are eating up my life and time, but I did still want to announce the awesome news!

We've been hounded by immigration issues since we got married 7 years ago, for various reasons--mostly due to our inexperience dealing with the process, and following bad advice when I was trying to immigrate to Canada. Finally, after a year and a half apart and nearly that long going through the U.S. immigration process, my husband's visa was approved on the 24th of April!!

Once he gets the visa and arranges for moving stuff down here, he can finally come and join me in the U.S.!! YAY! This means no more having to worry about immigration ever again... unless for some reason we decide we want to move to another country.

Hubby plans to get U.S. citizenship, too, to make sure we can stay together for the rest of our lives. :)

So what's next?? I graduate with my B.S. in Computer Science at the end of this month. But it's gonna be a tough ride--I'm starting to burn out with how horribly busy I've been. I admit the past few days I've probably done more playing DCUO than studying or working on projects. But I don't intend to choke at the finish line... I want that degree. I only took 15 years to get this far, after all!

Well, I'm starting my first day back from spring break right, by being completely sleep deprived! :D

Admittedly, it's for a good reason. I'm doing more work on this jquery/php group project. Unlike this site, it's using Wordpress, so I'm having to relearn a few things about it (and already missing Drupal entities). The only reason Wordpress is even involved is to allow for the creation of magazine page templates. Which means, oh boy! More theming. I don't think it'll be too painful on Wordpress, though. I'll just find a good, solid base theme and mess with templates to create the different page types the client is asking for.

The harder part is figuring out how in the world you unit test something like that. I think I am failing at incorporating proper unit testing for web projects, since I've really never been in the habit of it on my own. (Guess who didn't unit test for THIS site?) I suppose it's because my group project is this big Frankenstein of different languages and technologies, so gluing them together is challenging. Like most everything I'm doing lately, though, it's a work of progress and we're learning as we go.

I definitely plan to try to do the new Anthegenia site properly, though. Coded from scratch with a framework, unit testing set up from the start... I'll even have my hubby be my client so we can work out some user stories, all in the name of test-driven development. I'm determined to learn all the best practices I've neglected in my years of sabbatical in Canada!