http://www.ummu.org Python and Kittens Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:33:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en School this semester was hard. I have a hard time with exam environments. Even my programming course took a lot of my time due to our (pretty cool) service learning project. We made a J2ME app for a local community centre in our school which involved allowing a user ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=25 Well GSoC is officially finished but there is still work to do. The connection for the whiteboard still needs to be closed, and there are many GUI-related problems. Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to commit for a while because I just bought a new computer (asus G51VX-A1) ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=23 The basic whiteboard is done thanks to lots of help from Asterix, Liori, and Nikos. I'm currently adding features like deletion and editing. I don't have much time left, and recently my right wrist got carpal tunnel so I'm typing this with my left hand. I'm getting good at that ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=22 I'm learning alot doing the whiteboard project for Gajim! I learned about Polish economy from Liori (who's helping me by updating his jingle implementation so I can use it for the whiteboard), and lots of... everything from my two mentors, Asterix and Nikos. Finally getting an actual project to use ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=21 Draw SVG Images In Python « ActiveState Code. Right now I'm working on making my widget draw to an svg image for the later SXE implementation. It's not the funnest part of this project but it isn't too bad. http://www.ummu.org/?p=19 It's interesting, elegant, and I really see why people have a hard time adopting Jabber as their main IM tech. As a programmer, I find Jabber awesome. However, from a user's perspective, Jabber really doesn't have any new features over, say, MSN. In fact, if you were to count 'fun' features, ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=13 It's very unfortunate I have not yet been able to start with my gsoc duties yet, but the end to my suffering is near! In 7 hours I will take my final exam and I shall be done my first year of school. I was originally planning to try and fix ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=9 After finishing my sociology exam, I finally had some time to install a blog for my Google Summer of Code project (it's required!). Since I was doing a python project, it made sense for me to install a python blog. Fine, then. Alright. So I went and installed pyblosxom, and it ... http://www.ummu.org/?p=3