Author: Prashanth Udupa
Starting and growing your own business is probably the best way to learn about realities and life. I have probably learned the best of the lessons in life over the last two years. Lesson #1: Most people do not have…
About two weeks ago I met with Prabhu Ramachandran at his office in IIT Bombay. I can safely say now that I have never met a person with the right mix of technology, enthusiasm, extreme simplicity, humility and brains that…
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After about two years of development (29th October 2004 was when the first version was released), VTK Designer has managed to get into the KDE SVN. After giving a demo of VTK Designer at FOSS.IN 2006, Aaron Seigo suggested that…
After over six months of saving, planning, negotiating and what not; I now have a complete development system. A 64 bit AMD Athlon PC with 1GB RAM, 512 MB NVIDIA 6800 GS Card with 512 MB Video RAM, 120 GB…
Five months of development effort and about 70,000 lines of code and over 200 pages of design and user documentation later; VTK Designer 1.0.5 Beta is finally out today. In-fact it is getting out as I type this journal. For…
Today our company delivered our first complete project. I am supposed to not speak much about the project itself for a couple of more months; but I can share the feeling of having completed the task. The last few weeks…
The feature additions for VTK Designer is now complete. No more new features will be added. From now on for another 45 days we are going to fix up the remaining bugs, package it, give it some shape and put…
A survery of 500+ VTK Designer users let us to understand that most people use VTK Designer to learn / teach VTK. The second highest usage of VTK Designer is to test/develop VTK components. VTK Designer 1.0.5 has another tool…
XGL !!!!! XGL on Linux is a complete treat to the eyes. What a fantastic piece of work by the Novell developers. Khudos to them. They are complete pros at making and packaging free software. Just take a look at…
After years of being a loyal RedHat/Fedora user; I finally shifted to SuSE 10.1. Thanks to LFY for giving a properly packaged SuSE 10.1 on DVD in their July Edition. SuSE looks refreshingly new. As a developer of GUI and…
Feels good to know that after two years of work invested on VTK Designer, Will Schroeder of Kitware/VTK fame wrote an email requestion permission to print a full-color image of VTK Designer in the next official VTK Textbook; and ofcourse…
VTK Designer has reached a new milestone today. It has crossed the 100,000 line of code border. Rather I should say that the committed/fairly stable code base has crossed 100,000 lines of code. More accurately 100188 lines of code. 100188…
VTK Designer would make use of the marriage between VTK and DICOM to provide some interesting features in the next release. Effort is being put into VTK Designer 1.0.5 to make it load DICOM images with very little effort. All…
What started as an experiement about two years ago; had turned into a serious programming effort today. VTK Designer was implemented to ease my pain with VTK a little bit. This was when I was working in Kolkata; today two…