Planet SoC

Now this is a killer! The Meta Programming System brought by JetBrains is a really nice full-featured DSL development environment where you can design your own language from ground up, including the specific editor and other features along with code generation and even refactoring support!

Yep… Can you believe that?
The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I’m in Slovenia, but still, when I’ll return in Romania on September 22, it would still be in warranty…

Yep… Can you believe that?
The battery is manufactured by SONY, and we all know how well SONY batteries work (yeah, right), and the Power Manager says “Your battery can store 49% 46% of its original full charge capacity”. Regardless the 49%, if I remove the power cord, the computer dies within a few minutes. The battery was first used on 2007-10 (Power Manager displays this, and I can confirm that I’ve received it in October last year). The battery has one-year warranty, so Lenovo should replace it.
We’ll see how that turns out; I’ll give Lenovo Romania a mail, and a call tomorrow.
Unfortunately, I’m in Slovenia, but still, when I’ll return in Romania on September 22, it would still be in warranty…

I haven’t posted anything since Alpha 1 and currently we have Alpha 2 available, Beta 1 is around the corner (has been for quite a while).Google Summer of Code has ended, most features from my proposal where fulfilled, but I’m still working on it on my free time, altough now with school I don’t have as much time as in summer vacations but is free time anyways.I have updated the screenshots section from the carcode project page with latest work (beta 1):http://code.google.com/p/carcode/wiki/ScreenshotsCurrently I’m working on adding a few levels in order to have a Beta with something to work on, more levels will come and ofcourse, you can make suggestions, there is a wikipage on level design:http://code.google.com/p/carcode/wiki/LevelDesignFeel free to add and modify!

Ugh. I broke the first rule of hunting. I spilled my beer. I wasn’t really hunting at the time, but unfortunately the beer landed on Das Keyboard. Its had a cycle through the dishwasher as I’ve heard to do once it started spazzing out, so I’m using a `regular’ keyboard for the time being.

Classes don’t seem as interesting as I thought they would be, and I’ll have to learn Java (again), but at least my schedule isn’t bad.

Finally figured out how to get Vista to boot with AHCI (SATA) drives. Turns out that Vista will disable drivers that aren’t in use at every boot. Problem: what if we’ll need those drivers to boot later? The fix involved navigating regedit. I’m still trying to figure out why Alienware shipped them set to IDE mode by default.

Last week marked the end of the 2008 Google Summer Of Code. I must say it was a hell a of a summer. It was my first programming related ‘employment’ and I’m so happy that it was to work on an open source project. I learned a bunch during my summer, working with language such as C and C++ which I was barely familiar, only had done basic stuff at school. I learned to work with different tool kit and libraries  and I also learned a few things about cross-compiling and developing for a different device than a computer. I think those experiences are definitively a huge plus on my arsenal. I can already say that I’ll do everything I can to be part of the next Summer Of Code !

Now that Google Summer of Code is drawing to an end, it’s time to summarize what has been achieved during these two months. Before anything else I would to thank again everybody (and most noticeably the folks from Mono and Google) for this summer, it has been awesome !
Base API
First of all let’s see how we compare to Microsoft implementation with the output of corcompare. As you can see, a lot of the reported missings come from boilerplate attributes and such, so we are pretty much feature complete (except for PLinq).

The Google Summer of Code 2008 coding phase ended a week ago, and final evaluations are currently on.

My GSoC project was about integrating Thunderbird with Windows Search, so that people can search for emails on Windows as conveniently and quickly as they search for documents and other files.
What’s been done?How much of what I initially set out to do has been completed?

I will not be able to make it to the Drupalcon this year, however my mentor Kkaefer will be on deck for the Summer of code showcase.
I am going to attach the presentation PDF because it’s pretty elaborate. You can grab it at http://www.skiquel.com/files/drupalcon2008-color.pdf.
If you are at the con,

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