The New Utovsky Bolshevik Show

So, this is my first post on Planet Bazaar. For those of you who don't know, I'm Daniel Watkins, known as Odd_Bloke in IRC. I'm currently studying Computer Science at the University of Warwick in the UK, though I will be taking an Intercalated Year next year to work in industry.

As far as Bazaar work goes, my contributions to bzr.dev have been mostly UI- or test-related, often just fixing bugs that have been reported on Launchpad. This summer, I'm working for Canonical on Patch Queue Manager (universally known as PQM), to improve the quality of the code, to make it more usable and to make it easier to set up. I'm planning some blog posts on PQM in the near future, so hopefully I will be able to give people who don't know a better idea of what PQM does and why it can be valuable.

Posted: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:48 | Tags: Planet Bazaar, PQM | Comments: 2

As some of you may be aware, I had a meeting with my tutor yesterday to discuss my future following my terrible degree performance this year. The discussion basically broke down in to two categories:

• My third year
• An intercalated year/year out next year

Third Year

Following my performance this year, I have been moved from the four-year MEng course to the three-year BSc course. Furthermore, I have been moved to the pass degree and so will only be required to do 90 CATS in my third (and now final) year, which is three-quarters of the honours degree load. My understanding is that I can still receive an honours degree by doing 120 CATS, but I'm not absolutely clear on this, so need to check.

Year Out

There was initially some confusion as to my eligibility to take an intercalated year, as my tutor believed that pass degree students were unable to do so. Thankfully, this proved to be false. As such, provided both the Intercalated Year coordinator and the Director of Undergraduate Studies sign off, I will be taking an intercalated year next year, working for credativ Ltd. in Rugby. All paperwork on my end has been handed in, so I simply await confirmation from the department.

Posted: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:19 | Tags: Planet WUGLUG, Planet UWCS, University, Facebook | Comments: 0

So, I have a new blog. I have no idea whether it'll be used more than my previous blogs have been, I just wanted to shift the meagre amount of blogging I do to be self-hosted.

For those who care, it's running on PyBlosxom 1.3.2, using the comments plugin from the contrib tarball. Tagging is provided by the tags plugin from http://bzr.ninthorder.com/pyblosxom-tags/ with some minor modifications.

Posted: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:57 | Tags: Planet UWCS, Planet WUGLUG, blog, Facebook | Comments: 0