Well, I finished my paper.
And Alf liked it so much that now he wants me to change my thesis topic?!
My paper was about a user interface I wrote for Jason's software PBX. I used
Flash as the main frontend, but it needed a number of ways to communicate with the actual PBX - it needed to do database lookups, and all sorts of things. Since Flash is not that powerful a language, I used what it had, and plugged it into my own scripts, written in more powerful languages -
PHP,
Python,
Perl, and so on.
Apparently, when I write about my open source languages, and their benefits, and why I chose them, and the scripts I wrote in them, my writing is "much more mature" and "focussed". Possibly because I actually give a damn about it. Anyway, because of this, Alfredo wants me to do my thesis on something like "wrapping a core system in user-friendly interfaces using open source tools", or some similar topic. Frankly, it doesn't sound much like a Masters thesis to me, but we'll have to see.
Anyway, the paper is completed. It was way too long, and now I have to slim it down substantially before I submit it, but the main slog is over.
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