Advogato blog for gears

7 Sep 2006

Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:39:43 GMT

So long Advogato! I really enjoyed reading, even if I didn't post much. My stuff will probably be found here if I update it.

17 May 2006

Wed, 17 May 2006 13:15:37 GMT

Long time no post. I was working under an IP waiver that prevented my contributing to Apache or GNOME. So now that it has expired, I've been posting random patches. We'll see how it goes.
I'm probably going to be very busy soon, as our first baby has a release date of June 8. Could be early, could be late. Only a 5% chance of shipping on release date. That sounds like software releases (although not the shipping early possibility).

18 Oct 2000

Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:49:06 GMT

Huh. I got certified. Imagine that. Despite being an Apache XML and bioinformatics commiter, I don't really know anyone on Advogato. The fact that I was certified on my word alone is somewhat disturbing in it's implications to the Advogato trust metric system's viability. I'd recommend others not certify me above Journeyer level unless you actually know me.

I learned python recently, and I'm quite impressed. I'm used to C/C++/Java being for "real" stuff, and my perl, VB, javascript being glue/toys/convenience tools. Python is quite viable for "real" applications.

XML Apache is cool.
Piper is cool.
Folding@home is cool.

I haven't actually contributed anything to the last one except processor time.
-Steve