Mateusz Biliński’s quasi-blog
A lot of code has been written since last report, while refactoring and creating new plugins. Details follow.
The goal of this part was to close elements related to GUI extending and, generally, plugin management. Some clean-ups have been made also to prepare code for events handling part.
It seems that another week during GSoC has passed. This one was mostly GUI-related.
I’ve wanted to let people experiment with plug-in system ASAP. That is why I’ve created Plugins management window ([9762]), where they can (de)activate all detected plug-ins and read information about them.
I’ve committed another plug-in example (after Message Length Notifier) - Acronyms Expander ([9777]). Now, users have more elements to play with and I can test how Plugins window deals with multiple real-life elements.
More than a week passed since GSoC kick-off meeting took place. So it’s time to summarize a little bit.
For those that don’t like reading longer posts - in short: Gajim (de)activates plug-ins while running and first plug-in works pretty nice. Detailed report follows.
Almost 4 days ago Google announced list of 1125 fortunate students that will be developing open-source projects this summer and get paid for it. Luckily, I’m within this group - here’s my quick report and initial thoughts.
I’ll probably end up with “initial report and quick thoughts”. Nevertheless, if you don’t know what Google Summer of Code is, check out official program website or Wikipedia. In short, one may compare it to normal software development internship, except two differences: you work on real open-source projects and coding is done remotely from where you reside currently (probably home, in most cases). This has a few consequences.
Some time ago I committed a short, introductory lecture about Vim at popular LUMD series. This is the review of the book that starts exactly where that tutorial ends, leading to a fascinating world of Vim’s advanced features.
I’ve started with pointing out my tutorial not because it is unique, but because it is not - as many on the web. “Hacking Vim” by Kim Schulz, the book that is reviewed here, is a set of well selected hacks that help to deceive the time flow. A kind of set that rarely can be found printed.
