Status Report

27Aug09

As the summer is coming to an end, it is only logical to give a quick overview at what heppened to me over the summer.

First of all, I’ve spent most of my time in summer camp, which we call Indiántábor. I’ve spent 5 weeks there. It had both it’s good and bad days, but overall I think this was my best season of camp ever. We’ll have to see later.

On OS development, I hven’t made much progress. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had to figure out how to load another sector from disk and execute it. All this in 16 bit real mode. I finally managed to get it work, the error was the inclusion of a line of code which was not supposed to be there. I also managed to make the switch to 32-bit protected mode and back. At that point I’ve decided that it’s time for me to start using C/C++ as well, beside Assembly. The next day I left for summer camp, and no progress has been made ever since. All this will be clarified in a future post.

Also related to OS development is the fact, that so far I’ve been using Windows. As many osdevers know it’s far not the best choice. I’ve tried Linux a few years back, but it didn’t really met my requirements, so I decided to go with a different operating system, Mac OS X. Right now I’m only doing expreiments with the OS so that I can gather enough knowledge of it to be able to make a seamless and errorless switch in the next few months.

Since I was the one who created the Indiantabor.hu website, people from the camp have been telling me for years to create a gallery for it as well. Since the site is written in PHP, for the past few weeks I’ve been thinking about it a lot, because it’s been a while since I’ve last programmed in PHP. Nevertheless, I’ve made my decision, back to PHP, therefore a new version of the aforementioned site with a gallery is on the way.

Last but not least I’m in the middle of an application to a Morgan-Stanley internship. I’ve already passed the telephone interview, and the technical and interpersonal interviews have taken place as well. No result from them so far.

That’s about it, school begins on the 7th of September. Good day to everyone.

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