If you mistype "strong" as "string" without thinking and create a few screenshot mockups months back, does that mean you are qualified as a Journeyer? Somehow I doubt it, but that's what I'm certed at... Go figure.
UI Hit Squad
Sigh. Well, I haven't posted any updates because for all
practical purposes the Hit
Squad is dead. This is partially my fault for jumping in
when I had no clue about project management, so pity the
poor fool. I haven't decided what exactly to do about this
ex-limbo status given Eazel's expressed desire to work on UI
as well. I know they have the talent and drive to basically
take over from the GNOME UI Improvement Project after
Nautilus is out the door, so I think I'll concentrate on
learning programming so I can help implement what they come
up with.
Projects
Well, I'm currently hacking together a patch for X-Chat
1.5.x's GNOME version that contains major UI reworkings. So
far I've gotten through the server list, reworked the menus,
and am starting to change the main window's UI. Thank
goodness C and GNOME/GTK+ isn't that difficult (except
strings, which I have grown to seriously hate in the last
few weeks -- although I'm sure that's at least somewhat
related to the fact I had no idea what I was doing going
into it (On a semi-related note, I really wonder what the
heck people who programmed strings in DOS back in the bad
old days were on -- using an OS where a segfault == a reboot
is a pain when you are learning strings, believe me [I don't
know if Windows is as clueless on this, but somehow I have a
hard time believing it isn't]). Hopefully I will have enough
of a clue when I am
finished to start making real contributions for a
change.
Scandalous
I go back to college later this week, so my IRC usage may
drop in favor of forced torture (C++ course *and* a COBOL
course in the same semester <<shudder>>). On the
plus side though, I will get cheap 1mbps DSL, so I can
regain some of my stature as a LPB in various online games.
That's about all from the personal front.