Mono
Thanks to the change of school semester at my school, I’m going to have a break in February of almost 4 weeks during which we are supposed to participate to some activities chosen among a list.
The cool thing is that I managed to make « contributing to Mono » one of those activities. Thus, I will have 4 weeks to work on Mono and integrating SoC’s ParallelFx work into the mainline tree with the blessing of my school. Yay 
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FOSDEM
There are also a bunch of other nice things I will be able to do this February. Going to FOSDEM is one of those (I took the train tickets this afternoon) which mean I can now wear the pretty badge too :
Unless we have trains problems on the way, we should be there for the Fosdem’s Beer Event too, so if you want to discuss Mono, ParallelFx or whatever around an (excellent) Belgian beer be sure to come by 
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Prologin
Finally, I was qualified to go into the semi-finals of Prologin, the French algorithmic contest for young people, this year again. It will be a good occasion to see old faces.
For the first time there are also proposing C# as a qualification language. Hopefully, it will mean no on-the-fly C++ learning for me this time .
Et voilà. Dimanche dernier c’est conclu l’édition 2008 de Prologin qui fut également ma première participation à ce concours. Comment décrire ce long week-end ? 2 idées, je pense, suffisent : éprouvant physiquement et incroyablement fun (ha… et aussi, très diététique ). Chapeau bas aux organisateurs pour avoir eu la force de supporter ~90 geeks [...]
Now it’s almost a week until Prologin final officially opens. I slowly started to revise about standard pathfinding and optimization algorithms this afternoon (ant colony ATM). I just hope this damned test server will let me use C# or else I’m done for learning C++ in 36 hours like last time . If you want [...]
The good : I’m going to Prologin final ! (list here). PH01′s teacher is an infinite source of fun (and he works on some computer-related researches, great). Did the pole commission for Lolut this week. Productive meeting. Some good things already done. General refactoring for DBus-Explorer, UI should be much better too. Not yet in [...]
Désolé pour le retard : travail à la bourre, rentrée, intégration et toussa Cathédrale de Strasbourg par Pierre -M- Petit carnet de route : Départ Vendredi dernier vers 17H avec sortie à l’arrache du boulot (entre visite des turbines et séance de « au-revoir » avec tous les gens du bâtiment). Arrivé deux heures plus tard à [...]
Prologin and FOSDEM turned out to be the same day. Since it’s the the last year I can participate to Prologin (which would be my only participation too) I have to forget about FOSDEM . Next time, next time … PS: a great thing should happen tomorrow. PS²: note to myself, « don’t lose your time [...]