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 my knowledge on is quite satisfying. It’s only now that I realize how little I know. I have to do alot of documentation reading to make sure I’m doing everything right, even though it’s always tempting to just hack at it and make it work.

The whiteboard currently cannot connect to the session because I haven’t gotten to using the jingle yet. It has two tools so far, a brush and an oval drawing tool, and it can export. I’m currently trying to get the UI look pretty, and there are some little GTK glitches. I might just let them go for now and start trying to get session working.

One thing I’m concerned about in the future is how I am going to get erasing working. How would I make a cut in the middle of a path or an oval? Should I just cover over it with the background color? I will have to look to see how other clients do it
My Islamic Studies research project is going interestingly, if slowly. We were supposed to make a website. Right now we still haven’t bought a webserver. We have, however, determined what colors are suitable for color blind people and what sort of menus we maybe should use.