I\u2019ve always wanted to have a blog just to post crap like this: This morning I got charged 4 euros (yes, that\u2019s right, four) for sending my Tax Documentation to Google. Four pieces of paper. That\u2019s one euro per page.<\/p>\n
Jeezus Christ, seriously. Four euros. It would have been fucking cheaper to buy a plane ticket and give the damn stuff in hand to\u00a0Leslie Hawthorn<\/strong>\u00a0myself.<\/p>\n Anyways, here\u2019s some actually interesting info: I\u2019ve just noticed you may be reading this blog without even knowing what\u2019s it all about. Yes, apart from the fact that it is a development blog about my Summer of Code for ScummVM (something which you can infer from the, once again, awesome pun in the title), you might be interested in knowing exactly what I\u2019ll be doing during this summer, and I didn\u2019t explain that on my first post because I was plain too lazy.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s get right into it now: My task consists in the development of a new Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the program. And yes, I know that ScummVM already has a GUI. In fact, I won\u2019t be developing a new one from scratch. I will be rewriting and refactoring a lot of code to fix all the shortcommings of the current implementation, and while I\u2019m at it I\u2019ll add some new features.<\/p>\n I know that the task may not seem\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0fun, because the result for the average end user will probably be the same GUI he had before (and that\u2019s if the Gods of Timelines don\u2019t bless us with any regressions), but the fact is that there\u2019s gonna be a load of cool code going on the background (we are adding a lot of awesome new features and fixing a lot of the old ones) and all this code will certainly have a big impact on many ports and on the project as a whole. You could say I\u2019m happy like some\u00a0castanyoles<\/em>\u00a0if you knew what the fuck are\u00a0castanyoles<\/em>.<\/p>\n Oh, and I almost forgot: I won\u2019t be doing this on my own. Apart from the extremely supportive development team, I have my very own mentor:\u00a0Johannes Schickel (<\/strong>LordHoto)<\/strong>\u00a0has the daunting task of replying my random rantings and inconsistent mumblings with valuable advice, and so far he\u2019s been doing an awesome job at it: My first SVN commits are in place and we have an API which is starting to take shape. Expect a few posts on this topic soon (TM), almost certainly before the weekly progress update.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, as I am pretty confident that right now you can\u2019t wait to know\u00a0even<\/strong>\u00a0more about my project, here\u2019s enough information to fill your sickest needs -at least until I come back spamming some more.<\/p>\n Detailed project description (HTML)<\/a><\/p>\n My GSoC Application, as sent to Google (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n ScummVM project site in Google Code – GSoC<\/a><\/p>\n