The end of winter and the start of Google Summer of Code

Hello my regular audience.

I finally finished this previous semester with a heroic effort. I'm almost done all the course work for my Masters, which is a huge relief. I'd provide details, but I'd like to relax a little and not think anymore about it :D

Also great news: I'm pleased to announce that this summer I'll be participating in the Google Summer of Code programme! I will be working on writing a new XML API for GNOME (we're going to wrap a good, non-GNOMEy one). Consequently, eventually there'll be a bunch of programming posts labelled under '#GDom' and you can probably just ignore those.

I'm pretty thrilled. I applied the first year they had it, but was young and stupid back then, and didn't stand a chance. I get paid a little, which is nice, too, and it's only a little less than a GTAship would have been, and will be a lot more fun.

Liv will be going away to Algonquin for most of the summer, so that will probably give me lots of time during the week to focus on development and Masters work during the summer.

Au revoir.