New friends at GUADEC (updated)

I've met many people at GUADEC these days, and I got many new friends.

Yesterday when I and Jonathen come to the hostel where sponsored people live, it's a little bit early, so we just wait at the lobby. Here we met Markus, Ankit, Siska and other people, and we had some nice conversations before check in. After that, we went to lunch together (Although it's about 3:30 in the afternoon) and had a really wonderful day.

At the pre-registration party yesterday night, we had a drink with GUADEC people here and met some new friends like Oliver and Skyman.

Also, my roommates, Jonathan, Patrick and Marcin, are very nice people. We spend a good time together.

I think I'll make more friends here. With beautiful weather and friendly people, I love the place, I love GUADEC!

Summary of work from July 21st to August 3rd

I've finished the coding part of the migration from GConf to GSettings, and now is the debugging time. Since I will attend the GUADEC, there may be not much time for this project, hope I can finish the GSettings part before deadline. Also, I'll have a lightning talk at GUADEC about my GSoC project, hope people will enjoy that.

Summary of work from July 7th to July 20th

I started with the migration from GConf to GSettings/DConf, but I got some problems. I've asked desktop-devel-list for help, and Mr. Crha gave me some advice. I'm still working on that.

Before I find the best way to do that, I've done some trivial works to make EAS newer. These works should be continued regardless of the finish of this project.

Code Version Control Problem

Code version control using Git or SVN seems like too trivial to some small project, but today's experience taught me a lesson.

We, two classmates and me, are developing a small and simple distributed in-memory key-value storage system (like a system called piccolo developed by Professor Jinyang Li's team in New York University) these days. One of them had constructed the basic framework several days before, and we have been adding new functions based on his work. We did our version control work by simply modifying the old code, since we thought it's just a demo system and should not be hard to maintain. But the truth is that coding is easy, but merging our work really drives us crazy. We have to modify our new code manually to make it adapted to others changes. I have to admit that this kind of version control deprives all of my passion for coding something.

Today I learned that even if you are developing a really small project, wise version control is indispensable. A beard well lathered is half shaved, though.

Summary of work from June 23rd to July 6th

I've been working though my final exams in the last two weeks. Hope I can get some good scores.

About our project, I've passed the midterm evaluation. Since the time left is not very casual, I will focus on this after the last exam and make EAS better.

By the way, I may participate the GUADEC 2015 if I can get the visa. Hope to have a nice experience with the people there.

Summary of work from June 9th to June 22th

In the past two weeks I've finished my planned work before midterm. Here are the details:

To bring the GUI configuration of module EAS back to use, several things are done: the basic configuration and collection code for configuration, the EAS server auto-detect aspect, and some update to the deprecated usage of gtk+ in our project. Some steps are similar to the EWS module, so I borrowed some code from EWS.

Since I will have several final exams in the few weeks, the remaining part of my project will be covered a little bit later, maybe start at mid-July.

Summary of work from May 26th to June 8th

After two weeks of coding, the task planned before midterm has been partly accomplished. Here is the work:

The main part of the configuration UI of EAS has been finished, including the whole configuration step and the auto-discover function. More details will be added and we will finish that after some test.

There are several exams ahead, so I will focus on this project recently and hope to finish the work earlier to save some time for those tests.