Hammer of Code

My adventures in GSoC 2008 working on Thousand Parsec, among other things

a quick, pre-report post

Before I post my first official weekly report I just wanted to throw out some commentary. Today I worked mainly to produce a graph of all the positions of the stars in their constellations. I used OmniGraffle to do so and found it was a pretty painless procedure.

what a day

Phew, what a day. After yesterday’s git fiasco I really kicked off hard today on coding a few days early. The majority of the work I did today was creating a tonne of shell classes. I didn’t intend on being this productive today; I had taken a little break from Minisec and was looking over [...]

lots of reading

Today I spent most of the day reading “the book I got.” I don’t really think I should talk too much about what I am reading. I will say there is a lot of good in the book for almost everyone in GSoC to pick up on. I’d like to get as much of it [...]

Happy 50th dad + new macbook

Can’t say my focus the last day and a half hasn’t been on anything but GSoC. What with celebrating my dad’s 50th birthday yesterday and getting to play with my new mabook today. You should all be glad to know both went/are going very well!
We gave my dad Rockband for his birthday with the 6 [...]