Planet SoC -

Accepted!

Alturin — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:26:16 +0200

I got accepted by git for Google Summer of Code as you can see here. I’m very excited (as you can’t see by this post, but couldof seen if you were here ;)). This means I’ll be doing what I like most all summer (coding!) and on top of that, I have a mentor that will be helping out! Oh, and also those people from Google are paying me $4500 if I don’t drop out, so that’s very nice indeed! Can’t wait to get started, we don’t start till May 26th officially, but I don’t think I can wait that long!

Ho-hum!

Alturin — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:15:31 +0200

The downside of being early with things, and getting in touch with the git maintainers/mentors is that by now I already had all my feedback. Because of that, right now, that is, during the “application period” (which was extended by 1 week to make things worse!), I’m not getting any comments on my application at all! Ah well, what I heard from the git people, “no news is good news”! So until 18 April (so far, far away!) I’ll have to be patient!

Meanwhile I got a hold of some Jørn Lande albums. They are totally amazing, I already knew I like his voice from his appearance on Avantasia’s “Scarecrow” and Ayreon’s “01011001”, but I didn’t expect it to be that good! Well, maybe I did a little bit, but this is definitely a band I’d like to see live sometime. I should see about getting those Masterplan albums he did, I have one Masterplan cd already, and it’s not bad at all either.

On a wholly different note, I did my last (and second :P) test for this semester. I do think I like only having 2 tests, but then again, it’s the 3rd semester, which is kinda a “in between” semester. Since some subjects last 2 semesters the 1st and 3rd semester usually have less tests than the 2nd and 4th. It gave me a lot of time to code though, and Unsigned Byte (shameless plug) has made a lot of progress. I’m really proud of the generic DAL I made, and I’m contemplating announcing it on freshmeat.

Hmmm, that’s it for now I guess, back to coding?

It has begun!

Alturin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:00:29 +0100

Lo and behold!
It has begun!
This year’s ‘Google Summer of Code’ is now open for student applications!
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Shame on you! Have a look at the official site.
I would really like to participate with git, so I’ve been busy brewing up a kick-ass application!
I’m taking my time though, no need to rush, I still have one week week to finish my application.
I think I’ll turn it in before Friday though, I wouldn’t want to be late!