On the other side of cloud

Tags:SoKSebastian Trüg told me there will be no support for me to go Dublin for aKademy 2006. And I surely can’t afford the cost… Tell the truth, I am very sad about this, and I am very disappointed…

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It is so slowly. I almost can’t bear endless problems in compiling KDE4 and kdepim. It’s a nightmare, and the reason I didn’t find yet.

I wasted two weeks on setting up enviorment, partly because of my intern takes me much time. It also because of my inexperience. In fact, in these day, I was so dispirited…

I will speed up on development.

That’s all by now.

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The KDE e.V. sent me a message told me that I will continue my working on KNotes in “Season of KDE 2006″. Michael Blade told they were planing such a kind of thing several weeks ago, now it’s finally announced.

This year KDE has participated in Google Summer of Code program. You were one of the candidates who had sent their proposals to Google under KDE’s mentorship.Google does only support a small selection of the project proposals mentored by KDE. Sadly, your application was not selected in this process.

However, we think that your project proposal was very interesting and had potential to become an important part of the KDE development. Thus, we offer to mentor you without the help of Google in the “Season of KDE 2006” .

We do not have the same financial means like Google does. Thus, we cannot promise you a “reward” for a successful completion of your project. We will, however, try our best to gather sponsors for this event to be able to invite you to this year’s akademy - the annual KDE conference - at Dublin. If nothing else, the Season of KDE 2006 will be a brilliant opportunity for you to become a part of the KDE community while being mentored by an experienced KDE developer that is open for all your questions.

What is out of my expect is there may be no T-shirt but a chance to take part in “aKademy 2006″! Oh, goddness me… Let me calm down for a while…

By the way, I found there are two Chinese person’s project was accepted in KDE Projects of “Google Summer of Code 2006″ : Commenting tools for KPDF by Xiaodong Chu, and QQ - A new protocol for Kopete by Hui Jin.

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Google hold another contest again. This time it wants some gadget(plug-in) for Google Desktop.

When I first time meet Google Desktop, I found it a funny thing. But I decided not to use it. In fact , I am a little afraid Google will take control of my life. Too many things it can do. My feeling is it is too powerful, with great extensibility, leaving no room for other small software. I don’t know why I got this kind of impression. Maybe because I myself also love to write some toy for my using, but the Google Desktop seems(I didn’t study the details) so powerful, beautiful and agilely, I don’t know if it leaves room for small softwares. It makes me a little unhappy.

I am planning to work over Google Desktop’s detail by dint of this contest. At least, I think get a T-shirt is a easy thing.

By the describing of Google Desktop SDK Overview, I found Google Desktop uses COM (however I don’t know if there is better choice). So, take it as my practice of using COM. Good idea .

The deadline is July 31, 2006. I am a little afraid of lacking spare time to work on this. In summer vacation, I am planning to work on KNote, my intern, one of my ideas and this… Maybe COSINE as well. Also some books(include my newly bought “The Art of Computer Programming” and some novels) are on the reading queue. What a substantiate vacation…

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In the following two month (or more), I will be work at Oak Pacific Interactive(the owner of mop) in Beijing as a intern. The work is c++ related. After sending countless copys of my resume and successful got the only one which replied(igonred by all others…), this result maybe the best I can imagine.
At the same time, I will be continue my working on KNote improvement - because Michael told me KDE e.V. is planning to hold a “Summer of Code” for KDE itself. No prize but a T-shirt — that doesn’t matter, isn’t it? ^_^ At least, I really want to do something for open source, which also will prove my ability.

The last two months are hard time, and the following two months will be excited.

BTW: I bought “The Art of Computer Programming Volume One”(Chinese version) this week, in order to enhance my knowledge of algorithm and data structure. I strongly feel that more codes I wrote, the more demands on basic knowledge are needed.

Tags:socAfter a whole day waiting, I received a mail from soc2006support@google.com:

Dear Applicant, First of all, Google and the open source organizations taking part in the Summer of Code would like to thank for applying to take part in this year’s Summer of Code. Unfortunately, your application was not one of those selected to take part in this year’s program. Universally, the quality of the submitted applications was very high, but we had a limited number of slots available. This often difficult decision was made by the organization you applied to, so any questions regarding application selection should be directed at them. We hope you’ll consider applying next year. Some of you may have received an email with incorrect text stating that one of your applications was accepted. For this, we are deeply sorry for the confusion. Kind regards, The Summer of Code Program Administration Team

My brain became blank at once. Then I accepted the result. No more to say. No application next year, because I would not be a student then in all probability. The page of SoC2006 is marked as history. I will also send all information to the one who in charge of KNotes, maybe some help. That’s all for Google Summer of Code 2006, a meteor in my life.

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May 10th: Completed the resume and send it here as a page. Done
May 12th: Completed the detail version of CV.Maybe not needed, so delay it
The following week(week of exams): Describle the details of my opition on the project.
After exams, more will be done before May 22……

Tags:Google KDE socI heard about Google Summer of Code 2006 last month. After scaning the ideas, I feel terrible, for it seems too difficult for me to solve any of them. Although I have spend more than ten years on programming, my improvement is so limited that I cannot claim that I am an experienced programmer. However, it is the my learning skills,which enabled me to keep pace with the rapid software development,that strengthen my confidence to solve a large number of problems in the learning process. I believe that I am a bright and passionate learner , and dedicate myself to the practise of programming. Nevertheless, destiny always avoid me to achieve my goals—for example,I was defeated in NOI five years ago，and then missed three chances of attending the Department of Computer Science & Technology so that I have to fight alone in my campus life, which is the best period to improve myself.

There is no deny that I donot satisfy my ability now and eager to have greater advancement. Unfortunately, I doubt if I can successfully apply for a soc project before last night. But I decided to have a try at last when an idea striked my mind that it is surely that no result if you don’t try, isn’t it?

I have applied for “KNotes Improvement” in KDE projects,which is very similar with a toy of mine. In addition,this project request a catalog function, which I would like to carry out by using tags that I wrote to organize the information—-what is my incipient design.

Last night, I almost failed to submit application. When I decided to apply, I found that the timeline of proposals due by 16:00 Pacific Daylight Time May 8th(now update to 11:00 Pacific Daylight Time May 9…) and the school network would be down in 2 hours . Futhermore, I was shocked because I had not prepared anything yet. Two hours later, I was exhausted, but submitted my application successfully, just 8 minutes before network down.

That is why the application I submitted last night is full of errors. (I even mistakenly turned GMT for UTF … )I will try my best to finish the task if I get it. Bad beginning, but ending must be fine. The more work will be done in the following days, for instance,I have to set up a page for soc, use a better way to express my idea, read source code, contact the KNotes developer, and so forth.

Although there are four exams in this week, I will do my endeavor to win the task.

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“This was a special case because we have the photos on the Internet, and because his mother was so persistent,” Huang said.

Tags:Because I am too lazy to build another page for the website, so I decided use this blog as the default page in my website. And you can enter my Chinese Blog by using http://blog.yasker.org/，or click the link on the right just below the “Personal”. However, I won’t worried about how to construct a homepage for website again.