Weekly Report - 24/6/08
Man these weeks are flying by. I managed to get a bit of work done on MPLS, but not much, before a suprise trip to visit friends up in Auckland dragged me away for the weekend.
Accomplished Last Week:
- Began looking over the OpenBSD implementation, looking through what has been submitted on their CVS, and just generally trying to get how the code does what it needs to do, and where it does it.
- Finally got a call back with an answer from IBM about my application. They have decided not to invite me to their interview day this time, but apparently if they hold another one then they will invite me to that. I’m not holding my breath. It appears as though it is very hard to get a job in New Zealand working with operating systems or networking stuff, unless you have experience. Unfortunately for me, my grades in my first 2 years of uni where anything but flash, and I seem to be suffering for it now. It’s almost making me wish I had some PHP or web programming under my belt, which is what all the NZ jobs seem to be looking for. Oh well, onwards and upwards with the job hunt hopefully.
Plans for Next Week:
- Once I have sorted out the licencing stuff with using OpenBSDs code (I havent had anything to do with Open Source licences befire, and I dont want to step on anyones toes by doing the wrong thing) then I will be porting over the code that I need to start working on.
- Figure out where exactly the code from OpenBSD has gotten to in terms of my plans, and then start working on improving it or moving on to new features I need.
Thats all for now. If anyone knows of any jobs in NZ for someone studing networking and operating systems, let me know 