Since I’ve Bean Loving You

Once when the heart did flutter,
Every moment passing only to draw us closer
To glance upon you, my thoughts stuttered,
To breath you in, so refreshing, yet so dear.

As you moved through me, a warmth filled my chest
I was at your every beck and call
I swore I would withstand the test
A test of loss. I failed, and now I fall.

A craving left unsatisfied
You have moved forward, without heed to my growing addiction,
Without heed to the feelings of this body of but flesh and bone,
My sensous brown coffee bean.

Try as I might, I can’t kick the coffee habit.

Vimjuta 0.1.1 and Online

I made a promise last week to come out with Vimjuta 0.2 over the previous weekend. I hate to say I broke the promise, the best I could come up with was a 0.1.1-ish “release” (it’s on SVN), fixing a very irritating and troublesome reference issue. I spent around 14 straight hours fixing that single issue, chasing my ref counts through Anjuta and fixing several inconsistencies along the way. I couldn’t find the time to fix the problems with the debugger and to re-implement some of the interfaces (mainly the search interfaces, which vim honestly has better functionality in). My new goal is to cut out about an hour every day of this week and work through the weekend (during which I am going home, away from the hectic campus life), and try and come up with a 0.2 release in time for Diwali (huge Indian festival). Wish me luck!

In other matters, I have finally made a small webpage for Vimjuta, hosted on my webserver at: http://arun.chagantys.org/projects/vimjuta/.

FOSS Events @ Shaastra 2008

As always, I’m a week late on this post. Shaastra, our annual techfest wrapped up on the 5th of October. This last week has been terribly hectic with all of our teachers catching up on lost time.

We handled three distinct “events”, namely a mini-FOSS conference, a HackFest, and of course the VC with Guido van Rossum. Looking back, we probably could have handled things better, but as a first attempt, I think we fared rather well. This is a retrospection of the event, in the hope that it will help others find out something that helped and a lot of things that didn’t.