This weekend, I’ve started to implement methods as add_contact, delete_contact, add_group, delete_group, rename_group, etc. at the pymsn’s AddressBook level of abstraction. Things are getting cleaner and with hope, almost all of the soap stuff in WLM will be covered in pymsn in the next three weeks. Changes are merged on my personal branch.
Last week of school before holidays, I’m totally out of classes and I should get myself back into all the school stuff because it could hurt later with exams (at the end of May). I’m not really motivated to code on simmobil too. I’m going to Paris on the first week of holidays (Tuesday-Friday), attending Fostel and sleeping by my brother. I’ll maybe give a lightning talk at Fostel about pymsn (need, development, use) but I’m not really sure yet : first talk in english in front of skilled people, it could hurt : I need to prepare for it and we’ll see. The other week will be filled with school and pymsn work. Adrien should start working on halazoon soon, maybe we’ll work on the architecture this week so he could start coding. Since it’s based on telepathy-python, it’s not gonna be difficult. I have a urge need to play with cairo too 
Well, trying hard to read my network course book… 
Back from holidays, we had a project week at school. This week (the one ending today) was supposed to be filled with project conception & development. I’m part of a eight guys team trying to improve a network simulator named simmobil. That project is already 2 years old and several things have been (more or less dirty) achieved on it. Simmobil is more exactly a wireless network simulator developped using the Java programming language. One of the improvements we’d like to bring to this software is the simulation of sensor networks. We plan to implement several routage and sleeping algorithm as well. Things that I’m really involved in are the repairing of the graphical user interface which sucks and the creation of a new way to use simmobil through a XML based configuration file. This week, we had to deliver the conception report. Since I’ve wrote the GUI part which is really not the most complicated, I had almost nothing to do (well, nothing to do twice because of a misunderstanding of a complicated algorithm). So next we started to code and that’s kinda boring : simmobil is like a dummy project, it will never be used. Our superviser is a researcher whose domain is networks but that tool is really not usable. How can you find motivation in such a context? I’d like my department to choose to attribute tasks on free software to students. That would be useful for the community. So I haven’t really achieved much work on simmobil, and my week was kinda… empty.
