Coen’s blog

And there it is: the year 2009.
Thing is, I don’t really have a clue as to how to write this particular post, but there are a few things that I want to mention because I’m really really really excited about them
First of, I’m going to graduate this year, starting February 2nd. I plan to do that at Sogyo, and I’ve got a very cool assignment: I am going to do research after the available tools of code generation and DSL, and build proof of concept code in case the already available tools don’t suffice. Also, I think I will get my first Java certificate (SCJP).

Although these things all have a high nerd factor, I’ve a plan that can top that. In the summer holidays, I’ve decided to go to Hacking At Random, which will be in The Netherlands this year. I think that my friends and classmates (who also will be there) and I will have a *lot* of fun. As a matter of fact, I promise to show you some pictures afterwards.

While I’m thinking about it, my learning-by-cheating idea didn’t go as well as I thought: I didn’t finish that little project (but alas, that’s one of many). What did come out of it is Sentry. The Sentry core is actually nothing more than a library loader, but is has some nice features. Each plug-in (or library) can provide a number of hookpoints, where other plug-in commands can hook onto. Nice thing about this is that you can create a completely event-driven application, and anyone is free to create their own plug-ins. At this moment, I’m using it to create an IRC bot that is kind of able to control what’s happening in a channel and also to give my c++ knowledge a boost If you’re interested: you can take a quick look at my websvn subdomain, the repository is sentry_cpp, and it’s also possible to svn co it from the svn subdomain.

That’s all for now, happy 2009 y’all!

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