GSoC lost, summer won

Unfortunately, it turned out today I didn’t make it to GSoC. I had issued two applications but none of them qualified. For one of them, the reason I think could be I’d chosen a project that was too complex, wasn’t highly demanded feature and it lacked concrete specification, thus making it too risky. I believe [...]

GSoC: the way to save money on head hunters

The company I work for pays quite big money to head hunter companies for searching top specialists available at various locations. It saves our management’s and developer’s time so the employees do not have to waste time on searching and interviewing so much people and can focus on business tasks solely. But I found lately [...]

Brainwashing

Today I’m exhausted with two-day meeting spent mainly on watching slides and discussing things of minor importance. Things that should be covered in documentation end up just in PowerPoint slides, since documentation is full enough of boilerplate text and abbreviation flood that there’s no place in there for useful things. Two days of staring at [...]

Google Summer of Code and Android Dev Challenge

I was quite disappointed lately when I discovered that one cannot enroll for GSoC and ADC the same time. I wanted to take part in the GSoC adventure and also had I little idea for an Android app. Of course I doubt it would receive as much as $25k but anyway I wanted to show [...]