Kermit@CS

Summer break at huji has always been something of an illusion to me (for the past 2 years at least). This year by some freak accident, I’ve got a little over a month “free” before I’ve got any more moadey bet…

This leaves me with a bit of time to get some personal projects done, hopefully make some money, and get down and dirty with QT 4.0 - one of the coolest development frameworks around.

I wish you all an extremely happy summer vacation, I hope you aren’t too bogged down with moadey bet… And of course to everyone doing Infi 1 again next week - best of luck!

I don’t think I’m going to post much till the start of the school year, as people are too busy studying and on their summer vacations anyway….

Well, another milestone has passed us - moadey aleph are finally out of the way (hopefully for the best)
and we’re now in full moed bet swing [which will hopefully end in time for an actual summer vacation…].

Seems there are still people with energy to do things other than study in Giv’at Ram and a neat example
is one physics student who wrote up a WikiBook guide for students in Giv’at Ram. It’s an entertaining
read and being part of a wiki, it’s a “living” document - meaning anyone can add or correct information.

It already contains lots of useful and entertaining info, and I hope more people will add their own content
to make it even better.

For some reason, I don’t think this is what the next Knuth book is going to look like:

Some worthwhile links:

• A very insightful writeup on software design - written on a PERL oriented website, but the advice is solid and most of it is very relevant to software development in general.
• Simply entertaining

The LinkedIn craze is spreading like the plague through Giv’at Ram. If you haven’t gotten an invitation in the mail yet, the shtick is as follows:

LinkedIn is a very interesting Social Networking site - unlike other such sites, this one utilizes the Kevin Bacon effect, not to enable some 16 year old from France to contact you with pictures of his Pokemon, but to help you find a job. In simpler terms - it’s pure Vitamin-P.

What makes this so great is that it looks like it works, the site [intentionally?] leaves your picture, hobbies, favorite music, etc. out of your profile - the only thing that belongs there is your employment goals, and your resume.

You can search for job offers posted by people in your network, and it will even tell you how many people you know who work or have worked in the relevant company. There appear to be plentiful job offers also - even Google seems to be posting openings there…

Connections are most simply made via company (although you can search on names, or invite your own friends) and it seems nearly everyone is in on it. A quick search located many many people I’ve worked with in the past, both in Israel and abroad.

Use in the university seems to be growing exponentially, seems all my friends are competing who’s can get the most contacts…

Also, if I’m already on the subject, another really cool social networking site is MySpace although it’s much more geared towards musicians.

Links from the web:

• A Pirated Mac OSX version that runs [for the most part] on normal Intel boxen is in the wild.
• An insightful article on how Windows Programs by and large look like crap - there is a better way of doing things!

Wowzers, seems we’ve come a long way since Elite…

It’s amazing to think how far 3d graphics have come in the last few years…