Splish Splash

w00t! :-D

Anyone fancy a pizza? Well, I'm the bloke you need to see!

Google have just confirmed that I will be the official Pizza Ambassador for Swansea University for 2007. So expect to see me in the department real soon handing out pizza courtesy of Google.

(click to view the invitation)

W00t! It's a little bit late (12 weeks, in fact) but I've finally received my cheque from Google! Isn't it pretty? Makes me feel like a real Google employee ^_^

Ok, enough self-delusion... I probably don't deserve it, being as I dropped off the programme. But when it takes 12 weeks to get your paycheques, is it really such a surprise..? *

Also, on the advice of Sits, I've learnt that Google are doing free hosting for open source projects at http://code.google.com/hosting/ with SVN, issue tracker, commit mail forwarding and http source browsing. Neato :-)

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* It's just the initial payment, which everyone is meant to get when their application is accepted. The rest of the payment comes later, assuming you're progressing ok.

"Congratulations! This email is being sent to inform you that your application was accepted to take part in the Summer of Code. Please check your student home page in the SoC web app to determine which of your applications was accepted".

W00t! I've been accepted onto the PyDev project for the Google Summer of Code!

PyDev is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE that allows users to code in Python and Jython. It'll be my job to work on their debugger and editor, bringing them up to the same standard as the Java equivalents.

Time for a victory dance!

[View the application here]