Chad Weider

I’ve been really happy to see my code has found its way into so [many](http://www.google.com/codesearch?q=%5CsCTGradient%5Cs*%5C*) hands. As such I see it as incumbent on me to provide a bit more infrastructure around the code than I have thus far.

And so, over the weekend I put together a [page](http://svn.oofn.net) (with all the requisite frill) for each of the projects. Now that there’s a good central location with code repositories and feeds and all, I hopeful that keeping up to date with the development will be much simplified for everybody involved.

I should also mention that I’ve committed some changes to the source as well – [CTGradient](http://blog.oofn.net/2006/01/15/gradients-in-cocoa/) will now do fills clipped to a path and will also do elliptical (instead of strictly circular) radial fills. [CTBadge](http://blog.oofn.net/2006/01/08/badging-for-everyone/) has had a few tweaks to bring it further in-line with the canonical badges from Apple.

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HeyO! I just checked my mail this afternoon to find [this](/pictures/WWDCme.png) in the inbox: an invitation to apply for a student scholarship to [WWDC](http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/students/), nothing too noteworthy about that. However, I was just a bit surprised to see that my friends [Joey](http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/), [Matt](http://www.theronge.com/), and I were featuring in the advert.

What’s more, I had just chanced on wearing that exact same [Mathematica](http://store.wolfram.com/view/misc/) shirt today and on top of that, as Joey (the friend to the left) informs me, he chose to wear his very same shirt on this day as well. – how exciting!

Why, hello everybody! You may have noticed that I’ve been on an extended hiatus for the past few months.

So here’s the story – last December I went in for Jaw Surgery (which any surgeons out there might know better as [Orthognathic surgery](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthognathic_surgery)) in order correct for a problematic [underbite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandibular_prognathism). In short, it has been quite an adventure. But after a week of feeling [silly](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codeine), a time of dormancy, month of unintelligibility and several months (and counting) of an all [liquid](http://ensure.com/products/index.aspx) [diet](http://www.carnationinstantbreakfast.com/) I am now, at last, back to my functional self.

In the intervening time I was able to attend an informative (and mildly historic) [talk](http://rentzsch.com/psig/100), read some [good](http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0465067107/sr=8-1/qid=1171429985/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-9120067-6114816?ie=UTF8&s=books) [books](http://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787/sr=8-1/qid=1171430003/ref=pd_bbs_1/105-9120067-6114816?ie=UTF8&s=books) and listen to [really](http://www.amazon.com/Trance-Groove-Paramount/dp/B000002GSY/ref=m_art_li_0/105-9120067-6114816) [groovy](http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=72969440&s=143441) [music](http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=23879803&s=143441). I also got the chance to scratch out some apps amongst [other](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mobius) [things](/pictures/torker24.jpg) – All of which I hope to expand on at a later time.

I’ve now been back at school for a number of weeks and am getting back into the groove of things. Missing the lion’s share of winter break has unfortunatly put me back a good ways as far as my todo list is concerned, but thankfully [Jack Frost](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Frost) has [given](http://blog.oofn.net/2007/02/13/snowed-out/) me some much needed breathing room, of which I intend to use.

Wow, today the midwest is getting pounded by a heck of a [snow storm](http://www.crh.noaa.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=ILZ045&warncounty=ILC019&firewxzone=ILZ045&local_place1=Urbana&product1=Blizzard+Warning) which, surprisingly enough, has resulted in the rare [cancellation](http://www.uiuc.edu/resources/announcement1.html) of the day’s classes here at the [U of I](http://www.uiuc.edu/).

Needless to say, I’m quite excited by the possibilities that a free day (and accompanying delay in coursework) offers.

By the end of this day, I hope to write my poor and neglected blog once more and am resolved to make further progress on the actively developing of [LaserLine 2.0](http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/projects/LaserLine).

Update: According to the [Daily Illini](http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2007/02/13/News/University.Cancels.All.Classes.Due.To.Weather.Conditions-2715763.shtml), this last happened in [1979](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979). (thanks [Joey](http://www.joeyhagedorn.com/))
Update: I [now](http://www.uiuc.edu/resources/announcement3.html) have wednesday off as well, this is indeed unheard of.