Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/22/masters-complete.html

My thesis is nearly complete. I defend tomorrow, and as usual, I let
the deadline run up until the end. I just finished my slides for the
defense, and practiced once. I have some time in the schedule tomorrow to
practice at least once, although I have to find some empty room up at the
University to do it in.

I’ll be glad to be done. It’s been annoying to spend three or four
weeks here sitting around writing about perljvm, and not hacking on it. I
have a Cosource deadline coming up this week, so now’s a good a time as
any to release the first version of the Kawa-based perljvm.

I am really excited about how Kawa works, and how easy it is to massage
perl’s IR into Kawa’s IR. I got more excited about it as I wrote my thesis
defense talk. I really think great things can happen with Kawa in the
future.

Larry Wall is here, and we’ve had two dinners for the Cincinnati
GNU/Linux Users’ Group (who paid Larry’s way to come here). I was there,
and Larry was asking some hard-ish questions about Kawa. Not hard exactly,
just things I didn’t know. I began to realize how much I have focused on
the Kawa API, and I haven’t really been digging in the internals. I told
him I’d try to have some answers about it for my defense, and I will
likely reread Bothner’s papers on the subject tomorrow to get familiar
with how he deals with various issues.

It’s odd having Larry on my thesis committee. I otherwise wouldn’t be
nervous in the least, but I am quite worried with him on the
committee.

Anyway, so I defend tommorrow, then it’s into perljvm hacking again
right away on Tuesday to make the Cosource deadline, and then I have to
finish preparing my Perl tutorial for LinuxExpo Paris.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/18/thesis-document.html

Tonight, I finished the actual document of my Master’s thesis. I had to
vet it by reading it out loud, about three times. I have a real hard time
finding subtle grammar errors. I believe that when I read, I parse them
out in my head. Reading out loud usually helps, but it wasn’t working so
well this time. (The first draft had many errors, even though I read it
out loud.)

This time, I went through it twice, reading it out loud while bouncing
the mouse along each word. This seemed to help a lot, as I was catching
errors left and right. I hope I got them all.

I sent the final document off to the committee. I haven’t heard from
Larry Wall, whose an external member of my committee, at all. I haven’t
heard from since we set up the plane tickets months ago. I am sure he’s
insanely busy, and that’s likely why. No big deal, I suppose, I am just
overly nervous.

I really need to get to the actually hacking on perljvm. I have lost
three weeks working on the thesis document, which is really only
describing things, not hacking. While I’ll be glad, I’m sure, to have the
Master’s thesis done, but perljvm needs some hacking done on it,
especially considering that I have a Cosource deadline to meet soon.

Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2001/01/18/thesis-document.html

Tonight, I finished the actual document of my Master’s thesis. I had to
vet it by reading it out loud, about three times. I have a real hard time
finding subtle grammar errors. I believe that when I read, I parse them
out in my head. Reading out loud usually helps, but it wasn’t working so
well this time. (The first draft had many errors, even though I read it
out loud.)

This time, I went through it twice, reading it out loud while bouncing
the mouse along each word. This seemed to help a lot, as I was catching
errors left and right. I hope I got them all.

I sent the final document off to the committee. I haven’t heard from
Larry Wall, whose an external member of my committee, at all. I haven’t
heard from since we set up the plane tickets months ago. I am sure he’s
insanely busy, and that’s likely why. No big deal, I suppose, I am just
overly nervous.

I really need to get to the actually hacking on perljvm. I have lost
three weeks working on the thesis document, which is really only
describing things, not hacking. While I’ll be glad, I’m sure, to have the
Master’s thesis done, but perljvm needs some hacking done on it,
especially considering that I have a Cosource deadline to meet soon.