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goray: A Drop into BitBucket
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I’ve moved goray from SourceForge to BitBucket yesterday. This also signals a switch from Bazaar to Mercurial. Along with other changes in the goray project, I think this will make goray easier to work with and contribute to. Read on for more details.
FIRST Team 973 Victory at St. Louis
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This is my second year mentoring FIRST Robotics Team 973, and last weekend, we won the world championships in St. Louis, Missouri. With 320 teams at the championships (not to mention the countless others who didn’t make it to championships), to perform this well is an amazing feat. I’m proud of all of the students on the team who worked so hard to get to the top, and we made it. Congratulations, everyone! You all did a brilliant job! (and for those in the know: Literally!)
For your viewing pleasure, our final match (we were the red alliance in this match):
Post-Match Celebration (because Facebook can’t embed)
EDIT: Wired has an article describing the event. I’ll continue to post more as I find it.
New Go Stable Release
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Yesterday, the Go programming language announced their second stable release, introducing language changes, better packages, and general speed-ups. I’m proud to say that I helped out in a small part by contributing a patch to the zlib package.
For those of you who haven’t heard me talk about Go, it’s a programming language that brings all of the pleasant features from scripting languages and mixes it with the simplicity of C. Its syntax and feel is unlike any other language, but after a week, it begins to feel like second nature, and it’s now one of the first languages I grab to solve a problem. I can’t say enough good things about it, and if you haven’t already, download it and try the tutorial. (And yes, it will feel weird at first. Give it a week if you’re coming in fresh.)
I’m also excited that the next weekly will include my implementation of the SPDY protocol — Google’s improvement to the HTTP protocol — as one of the standard packages! The Go development team is exceptionally friendly and open to contributions, and I must say, this is the most fun open source project I’ve worked on. If you want a fun open source project to help out with, start hanging out on the go-nuts mailing list.
Congratulations to Russ and everyone involved on a successful release!