Wojtek Szkutnik

See WordPess: GSoC 2011 students announced. I will be working on the “enhanced emails” project with Aaron Campbell as a mentor. If you’re interested in the details, read my proposal.

Last year, I have participated in Google Summer of Code working on the “Full Throttle Trac Annihilation” task. Later, I was a short term Google Code-In mentor for WordPress. Summer of 2010 resulted in over 75 core patches and closing even more Trac tickets. However, this year, I would like to tackle another project: the [...]

I’m interested in the “Full-Throttle Trac Annihilation” WordPress project for Google Summer of Code 2010. I like the variety of work that I could do while improving my favorite open source software. The main reason for choosing this task is that I’m a WordPress developer myself, and I love the opportunity to make my (not [...]

I just created a website with auto-updating Google Buzz widgets to put on your website! Make sure you try it at buzz-stats.com

Am I the only one experiencing loading problems in Google Reader after adding LOTS of new contacts in Buzz? Google Reader loads very slow or doesn’t load at all (only the top bar shows up). If there is anybody else with the same problem – I hope my solution will be a temporary help for [...]

A few months ago, I was a successfull participant of Google Highly Open Participation Contest, a challenge for students helping Open Source organisations, such as SilverStripe. This CMS, developed in New Zealand, was one of the most important tools I’ve been working with recently. I decided to improve the SilverStripe user experiance by creating a [...]

I would like to present one of my recent projects: OMR (http://omr.musiqum.net). It is meant to analyse last.fm users’ profiles, and calculate the diversity of one’s music using our database. Athough there is still a lot to improve, OMR gathered over 45,000 users, our database gathered information on almost 800,000 bands and 300,000 tags. For [...]