progress so far

Originally I planned to post daily to this blog. Obviously that didn't quite work out (at least for now). Mainly for two reasons:

1) I had to finish some non-gsoc related stuff which too some time away from gsoc work

2) cytoscape 3.0 will be architecturally based on OSGi, and will be using maven for building the project. In addition, I wanted to switch to using a proper IDE for cytoscape work, and thus wanted to switch to eclipse.

All three of these (OSGi, maven, eclipse) are 'enterprise' java-style technologies / frameworks, and getting used to them took a bit longer than I hoped.

Nonetheless, I still managed to make some progress, and I am not actually behind the planned timeline. (yet)

first post

So, I have been accepted!

Last night I gave up trying to stay up long enough to wait for the announcment and today I wake up to find my inbox full of a huge thread of >250 emails. Yup, that was the first sign I noticed that I was accepted. All accepted students were auto-subscribed to the private students list, and were asked to introduce themselves with a post to that list. The speed of postings is so high that I recieved 3 mails in that thread between moving the first batch to a seperate folder and setting up a procmail rule to filter the rest of them automatically (which took at most 2 minutes).

As for this blog: I am intending to post daily progress-reports here once coding starts (May 26). However, I expect to post not much till then (maybe once a week or so).