I've not posted in a month

This is me stopping myself from never writing again by promising I will write as soon as I have something interesting to say.

Doing my best at documentation

I’m a firm believer that documentation is probably more important than your code. Why? Well, mainly this stems from my industrial year combined with blogging for Element14. In my industrial year, I had to spend a long time looking at the docs before I understood any of the stuff I was working with, and much of the code was either written by developers who had left or the current developers had long forgotten how bits of it worked, which is completely natural when you have a huge project to work on. Often I kind of reverted to using the dir() method in python quite a lot and just guessing my way round stuff.

Cross-platform python: the ubuntu edition

I’m still plodding on with my final year project given I don’t have a lot else to do right now. I’m now up to moving to ubuntu, which I started on because of my latest OSS release which I needed to check anyhow, so I decided to test the rest of my FYP on ubuntu while I was at it. To begin with, it was going swimmingly. Got the packages I needed from apt-get:

sudo apt-get install python3-qt4
sudo apt-get install python3-pip

along with some other programs, fetched my code and my module from git and pip respectively. Ran the program and the library, all functioned as expected… Until, as usual, poppler fell out with me.

My first "proper" OSS release

Graduation and what

From Tuesday to Wednesday I was in Hull, graduating. Really awesome couple of days, got photos with a lot of people in funny hats and all of it was free as I was lucky enough to win the NSS prize of robe hire and official photography nobody thinks exists. My favourite photos: Passerby: You’ll have people coming here for the wrong reasons The following day was my big sister’s graduation in Newcastle, so we continued the fun by heading up there and finally coming back to reality this afternoon. Fabulous week. Congratulations all!