Category: Technical

FOSSCamp 2010 (An LCC Event in SJCE Mysore)

LCC (or Linux Campus Club) is an organization that was started in 2004 under the department of Computer Science SJCE Mysore India, with a primary goal of fostering the use of free open source software among the students. For the…

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Internet Explorer 9

I downloaded “Internet Explorer 9 Beta” a couple of weeks ago. I have been consistently using it since then. I must say that the experience so far has been awesome! Browsing is smoother – Windows 7 Integration is nice! –…

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Why is work = giving-presentations?

Have you noticed that almost any ad/movie about a guy or gal doing work has something to do with giving-presentations? And usually the presentation has a chart (line-graph going up or bar chart growing taller) and then everybody in the…

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Using vtkRenderWindow with QGraphicsView

We are about to begin on a project that requires us to have floating and transparent widgets over VTK render-window output. About a year back, we had wanted to provide something similar to VTK Designer 2. We wanted users to…

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Moving to CMake

Over the past few weeks we have been playing around with CMake and we figured that it would be a good idea to have GCF build-able using CMake. There are a few open-source projects that make use of GCF with…

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Possibility of IT Returns!

For the very first time in my life work-life have I noticed someone in my circle actually getting IT returns. I am infact supposed to get some money back from the IT department myself, however I had (until-now) given up…

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Cadence acquires Taray

About a year ago I had blogged about how Taray had signed an OEM deal with Cadence. [http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/42294.html]. Today I find out from Ravi, VP of Taray, that Cadence has acquired Taray. Read the complete news here: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/features/pages/feature.aspx?xml=taray How much…

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GCFSupport Plugin for Qt SDK

We have recently made available a GCFSupport plugin for Qt SDK 2010.02.01. “GCF 2.3.0 Plugin for Qt Creator 1.3.1 (QtSDK 2010.02.1) [Windows Only]” Using this plugin it is now possible to get started with GCF super-quickly using Qt Creator. Just…

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GCF 2.3 Released

After a bit of a delay, today we announce the release of GCF 2.3. You can download the latest version of GCF from our website. The main new feature in this release is the GCF – Qt Creator integration. With…

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Custom Class wizards in Qt Creator

[Update – 25th April 2011: Qt Creator 2.0+ has a much better support for custom class and/or project wizards here: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-snapshot/creator-project-wizards.html] Qt Creator comes built in with a set of project/class/file wizards. These wizards are great to get started with,…

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Expand Declarations in Qt Creator

One of the things I dont particularly enjoy is to transfer functions from .h (declaration) to .cpp (implementation), specifying the class scope and then creating open and close brackets. The whole process consumes time and I always thought that it…

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Very inspiring stuff..

LittleDog robot at USC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYo9Whssla8).

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FOSS.IN 2009 – Talks/Sessions of my interest

FOSSEE Workout – Making Scientific Computing Python better! Introduction to Maemo5 as a Development Enviroment Howto make WebKit faster OpenGL ES Application Development on OMAP3530 with Beagleboard And of-course the time inbetween talks/sessions where I get to meet incredibly talented…

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VTK Designer has better DICOM imaging support

We have been working on improving medical imaging support in VTK Designer for quite sometime. However, due to heavy workload in other products and projects; this one took a back seat. Up-until now users could select DICOM image set and…

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I am speaking @ FOSS.IN/2009

Just saw that my talk on “Writing Plugins for Qt Creator” is selected as Tech Talk (Hacker session) at FOSS.IN 2009. The event is going to be between 1st and 5th of December. The last time I gave a talk…

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