MJHutchinson.com Michael Hutchinson's Home on the Web

About 3 hours ago, I finished my very last exam of my MSci degree: my final final (the final-year exams are often called "finals"). I have no further coursework, so apart from some administrative trivialities, my degree is finished. Hurray!

I shall now be trying to catch up with all the things I've left incomplete over the past few years: my website photo gallery, some books and games, various software projects (including MonoDevelop), a couple of websites I run, and so forth. I will also be enjoying Durham and its surroundings in the wonderful summery weather.

I have been accepted into Google's Summer of Code 2006!

This time round I will be adding an ASP.NET Project type to MonoDevelop, with a proper compilation, preview and deployment workflow. I will then be able to host AspNetEdit in MonoDevelop as its graphical designer for ASP.NET.

I will be posting regular updates on my blog. Right now I'm trying to decide which of ASP.NET's compilations models to support, and how they can integrate with the project model. I'm also familiarising myself with MonoDevelop's extension model.

Apologies for the delay in this announcement, but I only finished exams last Thursday.

Three exams down, two to go.

Just thought I'd post a link to my Dr Dobbs Journal article on AspNetEdit. It went out about 6 months ago, but I hadn't got round to linking to it yet. It explains a little bit about the reason for AspNetEdit, and the technologies used to bring it to fruition.

There's a terrible photo of me in the article as well ;-)

Well, it's exam time again. Five in total; first one on Monday, and the last is two days after I find out whether I've been accepted for the Summer of Code 2006. Not enjoying revision, and these exams – third year – are very important.

As for the Summer of Code, I've applied to work on ASP.NET Project Support for MonoDevelop. If I get accepted, I will be integrating AspNetEdit into a proper development environment at last!

My website can now be accessed at the domain http://mjhutchinson.com, and this redirects to the current site for now. I'll be migrating over after exams.

Three months since I last posted on this site, and all of those early posts were just about setting the site up. Seems lie the site's a bit pointless, really. Not that I've been sitting idle; I've been snowed under with academic work. I'll get something interesting up here eventually, I promise.

For now, let it be known that I am procrastinating my exam revision by upgrading the site to Drupal 4.6.