-
Merry Christmas
Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. To everyone expecting a card… its coming… hopefully sooner than later. Also no release of justCheckers yet… I broke it badly with the refactoring of the game package. Hopefully I can release something before the new year. Good night. Long day, too much partying and eating cake.
-
Ubuntu Toronto Meeting @ the Linuxcaffe
Today I went down to a small, cosy cafe called the Linuxcaffe on the corner of Harbord St. & Grace St. in downtown Toronto. Other than the fact, that the Linuxcaffe is way cool with organic coffee and free wireless; its also cool that the owner advocates Linux and free software. But what got me…
-
Restructuring justCheckers
As I started resuscitating the long dormant justCheckers project, I began wondering why did the development occurred at a comatose pace. Much of the problem I place on my own inexperience and my university workload. I also paid more attention to possible future problems than managing the team. Yesterday, one my of good friends and…
-
Subverting the Eclipse of Sanity
Ubuntu Linux makes many things easier. Today, I hit a notable exception: running Eclipse so that I update and do other “insane” things with it. After a lot of hassle, I downloaded a Linux version of eclipse right off of eclipse.org. Some updates, installed the subclipse plug-in and I am ready to hack away at…
-
Busily Getting to Business
What a busy day. Today’s line of exploits include: Installing a wiki. A moderated wiki will be the new justCheckers site. Importing articles from a website and wiki into a… wiki. Counselling about my career choices… and that I need to cold call. Brr… A quick update with a friend. Me time with a coffee…
-
Information Overload Via RSS
Eureka! I found out where a good chunk of my time disappeared to. RSS feeds and my favorite feed aggregation tool: Akregator. RSS feeds are an invaluable tool and using them feels like holding a hand on the pulse of the Web. However, I realized how much time I wasted because I subscribed to a…
-
A Note to Any Future Employers
So you typed my name into Google, and found this site popping up as the second result. Congratulations! You just found my blog. You are probably surprised, that you found it so easily. I was surprised when I Googled my name today too. I welcome you. I just want to point out a few things,…
-
Looking Forward, Looking Backward
One of the hardest thing to admit is one own errors. Today I finally confronted two of them. A while ago I opened up two different FOSS projects on SourceForge. I soon realized that I did not have the time to work on them and school. So today, I finally found the courage to ask…
-
The Strept Empire Strikes Back
I have been sick these past few days, with a painful case of strept throat. So I have been unproductive until today. In more positive terms, I help host a side event for the 2007 Annual Symposium of Streptococcus. Now I have to clean up after the mad bacterial partying. Yum. In other news, I…
-
The Open Source Gamer Looking for Work
I am currently looking for work, so if anyone is interested in a software developer or software engineer position please let me know. I have experience from university (finished my B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto) and from my open source projects in: Java development. PHP and JSP scripting. Database (MySQL and…