Today made some photos.

Nice, isn’t it ? :)

Just an ordinary lily.

As you know I’m working on improvements of Python Markdown implementation in terms of Google Summer of Code 2008. Markdown is a markup language, which was originally created by John Gruber and Aaron Swartz, and implemented in Perl. Today there are a lot of different Markdown implementations, for almost all popular languages. The main aim of markdown — maximum readability, markdown is simpler than (X)HTML and widely used in different services, where users can publish some texts(i.e blogs, in some blogs users can write comments/posts, using Markdown).

 

Just now tried to see retail stores page on apple.com, but it says “Hmm, the page you’re looking for can’t be found.” Didn’t expect such blunder from a big company like Apple. Sent them a bug report :)

Update: wow, they fixed it in 10 minutes or so, good job :)

I’ve got it! :) Now I’m free of study for the few month, and can spend much more time on GSoC.

Интересный person этот Greg Wilson, приятно с ним переписку вести :)

TM: This is a little bit like comparing apples and oranges :) GW: I’ve never understood why people think that’s a bad thing.  Apples make better pies, but orange are easier to throw – simple. :-)

Today I received a book from Google within Google Summer of Code program. It’s Beautiful Code, edited by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson, very interesting and useful book. By the way, Greg Wilson is my backup mentor. When period of pittance of time will be finished I’ll immediately start reading it.

How do the experts solve difficult problems in software development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual, carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts as they work through their project’s architecture, the tradeoffs made in its construction, and when it was important to break rules.

Yet another night walk :)

Installed Swiftfox today. Very good thing. Quite fast performance, lower memory usage(at first blush) in compare with FireFox 2.0. Speaking of memory, I don’t know, maybe it’s just merit of FireFox 3(I didn’t try it) witch latest Swiftfox build use. Swiftfox site:

Swiftfox is an optimized build of Mozilla Firefox. Swiftfox has builds for both AMD and Intel processors and is based on the most cutting edge Firefox source code available.

Hurray!!! I’m in!! Google Summer of code 2008! Буду заниматься улучшением модуля python-markdown. Теперь надо быстро разобраться с учебой, в конце мая нужно будет начинать работу над проектом.

I examined my photo collection today and found these winter photos. I made it some month ago, I think one or two days after my trip to Kazan, but totally forgot about it. It’s pleasant to look at such photos when outside is Spring, the weather is nasty and slush is everywhere.