Category: Technical

I am India

“I am India” on Google Video Nice video 🙂 This film is a journey through emerging India,” the fastest growing free market democracy in the world”. It celebrates the relentless spirit of the people of India, who through their karma…

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VTK Designer 2.0 Videos

I uploaded some “VTK Designer 2” videos to Google Videos today. I have aggregated them in this blog entry. I am quite happy about the way VTK Designer 2 has turned out. Hopefully the users will like it better and…

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VTK Designer 2

That was the month of October 2006. That was when the last major update to VTK Designer was provided to the world. Since then I received a lot of email about VTK Designer for VTK 5.x and VTK Designer for…

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Inheritance in C++

I was casually looking at some material on C++ on the web today when I came across this. The first read messed up with my head. After a while I thought of doing some experiments with g++, because for some…

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Bought a copy of Windows Vista Business yesterday. Why Windows Vista Business? Because it costs less than Home Premium, the only other edition that comes with Aero (apart from Ultimate ofcourse). It costed something like 8000 bucks !!! but I…

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People and Decisions

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…

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Prabhu Ramachandran, Python and Visualization

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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A small place in a big book

A photo of the page with an image of vtk designer on the top right corner.

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VTK Designer in KDE SVN

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…

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Finally a complete development environment !!!!

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…

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VTK Designer 1.0.5

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…

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First Project Delivered

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…

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More VTK Designer Stuff

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…

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Help tips in VTK Designer

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…

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XGL on SuSE 10.1

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…

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