JsBot, Jot and another Year

So another year is coming to a close, and this one was pretty. This summer saw me interning at JotSpot, the premier Wiki company. I got the opportunity to work out in San Francisco, California alongside some DHTML guys I've pseudo-known for 5 years; Alex and Dave "Schnotz". I also got the chance to meet some other cool people and drink lots of tequila, notably at the Renkoo launch party.

While at Jot I had the chance to work on the Dojo JavaScript toolkit, and helped to push its first release out of the door. I ended up pouring hours and hours into it and my biggest contribution was the Jot sponsored RichText component which attempts to wrap up the WYSIWYG editing capabilities of the browsers in a lightweight way, without trying to push them where they don't want to go. A horrible and thankless job, but what I feel turned out to be a rather reasonable output. I also think its best moment is yet to come, we'll have to wait and see where.

More recently I've wrapped up PircBot so as to allow IRC bots written in JavaScript, a fantastically flexible scripting language, dubbed JsBot. It's another small project that I unfortuantly don't have the time to take anywhere as my final year at university sucks up all my time.

Moving onto next year, I finally pop out of my formal education and into the job market, we'll have to wait and see where that does take me.