Life

Work and the few remaining courses at university leave no time to do free software work, I've been doing only Debian maintainer tasks for quite some time now.

I'm trying to develop sideways and learning Verilog HDL with the help of a friend who's an EE working on hardware development. I'd like to play a bit with hardware, been looking at OpenCores and would like to play with a PCI card that has an FPGA on it, should be fun!

Work

Work is a bore, I've been shifted from task to task with no real roadmap for my work, I'm in fire control mode since I started working. At first it was part of the training in order to know more about the whole system. Later on it just became my de-facto work.

I'm supposedly tasked with security topics but have no time to do it, all my time is directed to bug fixing.

I'd like to switch to a team with a more knowledgeable Team Leader than my current one. The current one is fine, but I'd like to be able to really learn from my peers and superiors, as opposed to being on the same level and gain almost nothing in extra knowledge.

Open Source

There is a competitor to my XMMS Volume Normalizer, It's xmms-compress He's got some good stuff that I'd like to take from him, like fixed point arithmetic to speed up my plugin. The code is GPL too so there is no problem.

goingware: I've been looking at unit testing for quite a while, haven't been able to tackle it correctly. Do you of open-source code that has unit-testing to learn from. I know about gcc but I was looking for samples that act as server/client and such.