Worus

Things feel pretty good at the moment. The WordPress guy that I wrote to gave me some ideas on how to get started with such a project. I thought of some myself, and it’s nice to know that there’s someone out there that can actually give reccomendations as to good ways to try and get started with this whole business. It seems like it could be positive. The current idea is to, as beta releases come out, submit bug reports and patches at the same time so that the development team can kind of see how I work and maybe get to know me as a coder better. It woudl also allow me to become familiar with a codebase that I don’t really know too well.

Work was alright today. I finally fell asleep at nearly 5 a.m. this morning. I tried to go to bed, but I couldn’t sleep at all, even with the lights out for over an hour. I was supposed to work at either 9 a.m. or 10 a.m. Obviously, I chose 10 a.m. I didn’t really feel like I got a whole lot done today, but I did get to talk with my new sponsee, and she seems really nice. I talked with her for about thirty minutes just going over how evaluations work and her first training lesson. When I was done my throat was starting to hurt. Sometimes I just need to learn to talk a bit less. I just make relations in my head and feel that I need to say them.

I have to work at 8 a.m. tomorrow and Sunday. I an not looking forward to that at all. I will probably be cranky all weekend. I will do my best, though.

Now, I am off ot go see Finding Nemo, which I know nothing about and have no true desire to see with Dean and Co. It should prove to be fun–as usual–though.

I took the time to upgrade my b2 to WordPress tonight. I’ve been meaning to upgrade b2 for a long time now, but I just never got around to it for some reason. Much to my surprise, apparently WordPress is becoming the new branch of b2. I’m glad to see that the development will continue.

I ran across all of this last night. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. At the time, I was trying to decide how I was going to find something to exercise my computer science-ness in this summer. I really, really need to do something. My idea was to write a client for the GNOME desktop that worked like a blogger or w.bloggar and make it compatable with as many APIs as possible.

After realizing that compilation on Linux can be a bitch at times, and since I will most likely switch from Mandrake Linux to Red Hat Linux since Mandrake’s latest release has performance issues, I didn’t see the point of tracking down libraries that I won’t even be using in under a month. Then I read that WordPress needed help. I thought that this would be a great idea because I could get experience with things like the Blogger API and other neat weblog things. The experience would be great for me, and I would get to fix the coding bug that I have making an itch. With enough learning, I could potentially write that other program.

The other nice aspect is that working on WordPress would give me the opportunity to give back to the open source community. I have taken so much from this community. Everyone has, really, but specifically me, who does not use proprietary software unless it is absolutely necessary. This is a tool that I have used, and I have the opportunity to improve it. I would like to do that.

Of course, this was only an inquiry about helping, so I probably shouldn’t analyze it too much. I just know that I would enjoy it. We’ll see if they need help after all or not, I guess. I’ll just go to bed so that I can work tomorrow, which will be a total bitch due to the hours, and see what happens.