Internship update

Thursday, March 18th, 2004

Well, I’ve been working at East Site for about 2 months now, and we’ve been busy doing research and design of content-types. We are now full experts in metadata storage, XML, XSL and XSLT, RDF and many more interesting technologies. I must admit that I was sceptical about them at first. Although I already did some research on various XML topics earlier on, I didn’t really think there was too much too it. It’s just text, after all. But XSLT in combination with XPATH to transform any kind of XML document to any other document is really very powerfull. I now also understand much more about the inner workings of DocBook.

Tomorrow we will be attending CeBIT, one of europe’s largest IT fairs. There we’ll mostly be visiting various open source and CMS stands (hall 3+4). Normally I’m not a big fan of fairs like these since they tend not to yield a high ammount of useful information. We’ll see how it turns out. We leave Arnhem at about 6:30 in the morning, meaning that I’ll have to get up at about 5:00. Life’s a bitch.

Meanwhile I’ve been working on Nimf for a while. Rights modification and Ownership changing are almost completed. The future roadmap will probably look something like this:

• v1.1 : Ownership and rights
• v1.2 : Various bugfixes, autocompletion in all text entries
• v1.3 : Various bugfixes, enhancements in navigation and keyboard handling, context-sensitive menu’s (right clickitidy stuff)
• v1.4 : Drag and drop??
• v1.5 : GTK2 port??

No dates yet. I have no idea how much time I can spend in the next few weeks/months on the project. I hope I’ll be able to work about 2 to 3 hours a day on it, about 16 hours a week.