Once again, I’ve let a month’s worth of dust gather on my blog. But I have a good reason for being so busy!
Several good reasons, actually.
And here they are:
UCOSP has wrapped for the semester
This semester, I was a teaching assistant for the UCOSP (Undergraduate Capstone Open-source Projects) course. I helped out with two projects: MarkUs and Review Board.
This semester, we saw some outstanding work for both projects. Lots of great students, lots of good code, lots of leaps forward.
I’m looking forward to helping out next semester with UCOSP.
I won’t be doing it as a paid teaching assistant though. Why? Well…
I’ve finished school
My research paper was signed off by my two readers, and I just wrote my last final exam a few nights ago. Unofficial grades have been posted, and I’ve passed what I needed to pass.
So that’s that – I’m a Master of Computer Sciences, I guess. Awesome!
I got a job!
I’ve been hired by Mozilla Messaging to work on the Thunderbird project! I’m 100% psyched about this opportunity, and look forward to peeling into the code. An added bonus: since Thunderbird is an open-source project, I’m absolutely free to discuss the code and the various things I’m doing with it. No NDAs for me! So stay tuned – I’ll have lots to say about Thunderbird and the Mozilla Framework code. Just give me some time to wade through it.
Zihuatanejo
It’s been a pretty long road. I’ve been in school, in one form or another, for over two decades. It’s strange that it’s over. I’m extremely excited about my next adventures, but I think I’m going to miss school.
Still, I can’t help but be a bit dramatic…
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In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soap, and an old rock hammer, damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man six hundred years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than twenty. Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An ice age here, million years of mountain building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That’s all it takes really, pressure, and time. …Andy crawled to freedom through five hundred yards of shit smelling foulness I can’t even imagine, or maybe I just don’t want to. Five hundred yards… that’s the length of five football fields, just shy of half a mile…
Andy Dufresne – who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.