ooooh a JPG, #GSoC2010 for the Visually Oriented
So there I was doing nothing constructive, watching some South Park. Then checking the new LSRfm.com Ustream feed, found the jukebox had failed over, bloody Flash leaking like a whore. So went to remote into my Laptop which is running everything whilst we are offline for Easter. It works thru a high numbered port for VNC access, the only problem is the port is open on my firewall, but not on the University Firewall, only taken me a day and a half to realise this.
So fixed that, and went to IRC to loiter for a bit, and some in the #GSoC channel, did a !timeline, which makes the bot output links to the timeline. Someone has made (in the last few days) a nice Graphical Timeline: I was ooooh a JPG!
Click for the Full version!
This should be how my summer goes, if I get accepted 
Post #SRAcon
So its post #SRAcon now, it was a good conference, nice to catch up with people, had some fun with the Flickr wall, but banned from the Twitter wall, no fun to be had their.
Learnt some things and came up with some ideas for the coming year.
In other news, didn't get appointed as Web or Chart, so that sucks.
Anyway this week is GSoC application time, so getting on with that as well as general coursework. And loosely job hunting....
Should hear about Glastonbury Radio Station soon too.....
Google Summer of Code 2010
So, Google Summer of Code 2010 is nearly upon us, the mentoring organisation application period is now open!
Initially been looking at projects I have been involved with before, work on now, or do at the moment, or similar parent orgs.
I'm sad to say that AptitudeCMS, my project last year, is now no more. But its parent org Geeklog is still with us, (AptitudeCMS was supposed to be GeekLog 2).
Geeklog is a PHP CMS, and my main thoughts for going for Geeklog this year is, due to being involved with Aptitude last year, and some of the possible project ideas look interesting and I have some knowledge and expertise on, given that it is a PHP CMS, and they tend to run in to similar problems.
So, just waiting to see which organisations get accepted this year, to fully decide on a project to go for this year. As well as work around my finals for my degree.
So time to break out the Green Tea!
See you in #gsoc on Freenode
General Update
Yes I knows, I needs to update my blog more.
I've been pretty busy working over at Stage 1 these past couple of weeks, I had to hack the Congo, the theatres Lighting desk, to teach it how to talk to Stage's new ETC 1 Port Nodes. The Congo runs Windows XP, and I know a few backdoors
I was reading Binary Hex's Post on Language Speeds today, and was suprised at the Slow-ness of Ruby, and indeed of Perl, I used to program Perl, but response speed times are not something I tend to notice for languages, I worry mroe about Web Server response and loading times.
I've been neglecting AptitudeCMS, just through sheer business.
Hell I'm supposed to be at Work right now, just waiting in LSRfm.com Offices for my Co-Worker to arrive. Gotta love Flexitime!
SRA wise, I need to build an online sign up form for the National Student Radio Chart, which I need to start organising. Broadcast and Freshers week dates are getting close.
Not forgetting the upcoming SRA Training Day in Birmigham on the 12th, that should be good.
The day after that (13th) I have my first non union techie shift, down at the Queen's Hotel in Leeds City Center, should be good and promises to lead to other things one hopes, we shall see.
Its all go here, just waiting for some stuff from other people and then time to kick into high gear!
Anywho I must go, time to go to work, will remember to post soon!
So its been a while
GSoC 2009 is over.
Got SVN running (stupid thing I know), so know have committed my work to the AptitudeCMS Repo. Still some mintor bits to work out, but the XML/ATOM output via Zend Feed is working, adding and editing items work, haven't quite figured out item deletion yet.
Not sure how much time one will have during term time to remain involved but we shall see.
Not tho I have picked up a Job at Stage One, the PCI department of Leeds University.
Spent most of the day hacking the Congo, the Stage1 Lighting Desk, to work with the new network nodes. Rather good fun!
Anyway Freshers week is coming, which means lots of shifts at work, which will be fun but busy, we shall see.
Hopefully I will remember to write my blog some more too!
Its Midterm
Crikey its Mid Term in GSoC.
Such fun, apart from being massibly behind but have made a hell of a lot of progress recently.
In other news Bungie Day 2009 was good fun, they ran a 35 map playlist, Bungie vs. The World, all the maps being created by the community.
Anywho not mych else coming up soon, but back to work now.
When Friends Ditch You
There I was, all packed up and ready to go to Silverstone, to help a friend run a tent.
Phone them up, rang, and rang, to voicemail, left a voicemail.
Phoned the following day, same, and then phoned on Friday, still no answer.
So I didn't go to Silverstone in the end, nice of a friend to actually say your not going, except they didn't.
Let alone, the fact I told a known BBC Sports Reporter I was going, and they were going to come say hello, now I look like an Idiot.
In the end I got quite a lot done on 360gaming [dot] net, it now has working profiles and Windows Live Authentication, but now I must get back to my GSoC Project, I'm finally getting my head round the file structure for plugins, and will be teaching my new boss how to program a Pearl 2004 soon too.
Also I discovered I like Whiskey.
life this week
So Xbox Live is currently down, which has borked a shed load of sites related, for example all gamertag data, and my output over at H3Wheelmen is stuck saying X is online in Y, even tho Xbox Live is down.
Its rumoured they are doing some of the Xbox Updates needed for Facebook/Last.fm/Twitter support, and of course the up coming Sky TV for the UK.
We shall see.
In other news The Big Surf Island is now out for download on Xbox Live for Burnout Paradise, will be playing that later.
Its living dead in this Weekends Double XP for Halo3.
The new scripts for 360gaming [dot] net are coming along.
And Finally in Week 4 of Google Summer of Code 2009, I have started my Project, well got PHP5.3RC3 installed and running, as Aptitude CMS needs Namespace Support. Apparently PHP5.3 is going stable in a couple of weeks so I am told.
However Life has been strange this week, I've had some odd dreams before waking up, which have been really off putting, but the nature of the dreams means I should keep it quiet.
Anywho I am off to Silverstone this weekend, to help a friend run one of the VIP tents for the British Grand Prix, so it should be good fun
Time to get back to work, so catch you on the flip side
Google Summer of Code: ACCEPTED!
Woot I got accepted to Google Summer of code!
This year I shall be working with GeekLog and AptitudeCMS on a Syndication API.
This also means Summer will be code filled, and I'm back on Planet Soc! Rocking and rolling for another year.
Landon and Robby are also back on the Programmed! Thousand Parsec and OpenMRS Respectivly!
I'm off to work on the Wailers Gig at LUU today so will catch up with you all later!
HAWX and GSoC
Well GSoC 2009 first stage is done, applications are now closed, next point on the timeline is the 20th of April, where we find out if we have been accepted.
In other News Work today and Sunday is cancelled since HarderTimez is no longer rocking in the Terrace as well as Stylus. On the up side (sorta) Sage (my bosses Boss) have got us in early on Saturday (well um today), 14 hour shift anyone? (Start 3pm finish 5pm)
I purchased Hawx the other day for my Xbox360, enjoyed the demo. However the story might be a little short, finished in 8 hours, straight, on normal. So will up the difficulty and go again.
Flying with assistance off, is rather different, especially when in Expert Control Mode. But I digress.
Playing over LIVE is rather good too! Not tried Co-Op Yet tho.
Finally its the final two days of prep for the Nation Student Radio Conference, to be held at University of Leeds, with LSRfm.com, and having been given a certain set of keys, life is a hell of a lot easier.
Anywho gonna get on Halo3 Over Live and do some Team Flag, thats this weeks DoubleEXP. Weekend!
Woot!
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