Deviant Abstraction

I was present at the London meeting. It was really great to be there and listen to what my fellow GSOCers have built. Here is the group picture.

Link

I have just completed the code for the Google Summer of Code. I only need to clean up the code and document some part of it, post the patches… And that is all!

We encountered a much harder class to write than planned. Of course, since it was deemed as deadly easy, so I left it until the very end of the project. It took me more than a week to complete it. I had to dig in the deeper internal of Jackrabbit to complete it (for the Jackrabbit savvy, it was all about restoring the Node Version Histories). As the saying say, 80% of your time is used on 20% of the project and of course you realize it at the very end.

A big thanks to Jukka Zitting from the ASF. Without him, I don’t know if I could have completed the project on time. Of course thank you to the Jackrabbit community for their patience and their technical help. Jackrabbit is a really interesting project with a bright future.

I guess I will soon have a cool Tshirt to wear!

I plan to keep working on this project and commit new code to Jackrabbit. Especially since it is linked to my Master’s Thesis.

Thanks to my employer all the work on my master’s thesis is opensource. I will put there all the relevant material with the source code. More to follow on this subject.

Here is what you have. A tons of useless so mandatory informations.

Link

We are more than halfway done for this year Google Summer of Code. If you would like to comment and/or track my progress, here is the JIRA issue tracking the Backup tool project.

Could it be fun?

It is a way to configure your wifi connection with a little bit fun…

On a second thought, the idea is fun; the execution is really easy to hack (for instance, you just need to spoof the mac address). I should try it on a Wifi hotspot.

Link
(Thanks Fred)

Wired writes about the Google SoC. So to answer one of Fred comment, I am too in Wired!!!

I confirm one point of the article: the $ 4.5 k is a lot for Indian people, not for us. It makes me wonder who are really rich?

Link

Google sure has a lot of goodies to give away. When you buy their Google search appliance (quite a good deal actually), you receive a huge amount of goodies with them.

They have sent to all Summer of Coders this really nice notebook through DHL. Thank you Google! I think I will use it next time I have a meeting with Yahoo! France.

My question though: was the routing more expensive than the notebook?

By the way, they are now sending through the same channel (DHL) the checks. Do you think I should brief them about optimization? I don’t think I should because it is really fun to receive packets from someone else than Amazon (and usually I pay for those).

Well… I am on the Google portal:

Link

OK I know; but still it is a first (small) step towards fame.

I have been selected for the Google Summer of Code application!

Yes. Yes. Yes.

I will be working on JackRabbit, a really interesting repository project based on the JSR 170 (the Java Content Repository API).

Here is the project: Jackrabbit Backup.

“Implement a tool for backing up and restoring content in an Apache Jackrabbit content repository. In addition to the basic content hierarchies, the tool should be able to efficiently manage binary content, node version histories, custom node types, and namespace mappings. Incremental or selective backups would be a nice addition, but not strictly necessary.”

I assume I will have a busy summer and a brand new Apple laptop (:D) at the end of the summer.

I will post here regular updates on how everything going… This will be useful at least for next year contestant.

Link to my application
Google Summer of Code

The Google Summer of Code application period is over.

This is why, I have decided to publish my application. If I am accepted into the program, I will probably need to rewrite it and elaborate on it. I will post all relevant material to this blog.
If I am selected, I will update regularly on this blog the status of the project and what is my daily work on the JackRabbit project.

Link