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End of holidays

Jeroen De Dauw — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:49:06 +0000

For me, today is the last day of the summer holiday period ( ). School will start at the 21st of September, but I decided to follow some extra courses meant to bridge the knowledge gap between people who had a lot of maths and sciences, and those who didn’t. These courses start tomorrow, and then continue for 3 weeks.

Exam and GSoC weekend

Jeroen De Dauw — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:37:44 +0000

Even though Iâ€™m in the middle of my exam period, I was able to work on my Google Summer of Code project this weekend since tomorrow, Monday, I have exam informatics (theory). I need to get -6.5% somehow to fail for informatics this year â€“ lol.

After I finished to look over Open Layers, Semantic Google Maps, Semantic Forms, Semantic Result Formats and the Google Geocoder extension, and writing the base of the Semantic Maps extension, I finally started on creating a draft for the whole extension, describing what functionality it should have, how this functionality should work and hook into MediaWiki, and what the overall structure should look like. Yaron helped me out with some questions I had about the parser functions for Semantic Maps, and after reading about some more aspects of MediaWiki extensions I now realize Iâ€™m not familiar enough about, Iâ€™ll start creating the core functionality of Semantic Maps

I wonâ€™t have time for that tomorrow though, since Iâ€™ll have to study for my exam French *emo screamz*.

Did I mention that last Friday I went to school with a big blinking GSoC sticker on my forehead?

KA Sint-Niklaas finally into the trash can

Jeroen De Dauw — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:23:41 +0000

Yesterday I got back my result of my last year of school in secondary education. I passed (yay!), and so did the rest of my class (congrats to all). This means I don’t have to learn the ridiculously restarted crap I had to study any more, and can focus on things relevant in a post-stone-age world. Of course, I’m entirely grateful for all the training I got, cause now I’m prepared for getting thrown back into time through some gap in the space-time-continuum

After doing a lot of searching for a school with a good course, I decided to go study Industrial Engineer Informatics at the University of Gent. Although I know most of the programming study material for the first two years, I’ll also get electronics, physics and chemistry.

Note: I re-posted this after my blog DB got lost, and only posted part of the original message.