Category: Technical

<activex title=”Media Player” scriptName=”MediaPlayer” control=”{22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95}” name=”mediaPlayer” parentWidget=”CStdMainWindowComponent.window” parentWidgetHint=”RightDockWidgetArea” /> Gives you this 🙂 Not only can you load ActiveX controls, you view/edit properties in the standard property editor component and can also script them. Moreover, if you load KParts on Windows alongside ActiveX; you can script scenarios between them :). Isnt it cool…

In my talk on GCF at Akademy, I said in my plan-of-action list that GCF would support ActiveX and KParts components. When I said that, I had imagined that the whole thing would take a couple of months time. Being around KDE devels helps speed up the process. You can checkout from the SVN sources…

I can really salute to two godly talks and speakers today… Andreas Aardal Hanssen (on GraphicsView) Zack (on Gallium 3D)

I arrived here on Friday. Flew to Paris with Girish and from there took the train to Bruxels with a whole bunch of KDE devs.. By 4:00 we were at Friends Cafe and got all the registration done. There are about 200 odd people here.. the whos who of KDE, Trolltech and (Qt/Nokia) is here.…

We got a few TShirts printed with our company logo. Looks nice… and here is a team pic (all of us are wearing the TShirts). Meanwhile, I am all set to go to Belgium for Akademy. The flight is at 1:55 AM on Friday. Girish and I will be catching up at the Airport and…

BRIEFING NOTE ON THE IMPACT OF SOFTWARE PATENTS ON THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN INDIA– by LAWRENCE LIANG, ANURANJAN SETHI and PRASHANTH IYENGAR http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf (Thanks to venki for bringing this to everybody’s attention in planet.foss.in).

I read this article today: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/JEE_fails_to_get_the_best_IIT_dons/articleshow/3307741.cms. Atleast some IIT profs seem to think that the whole thing needs to be revamped. “I am looking for students with raw intelligence and not those with a mind prepared by coaching class tutors. The coaching classes only help students in mastering (question paper) pattern recognizing skills. With this,…

The last date to file your income-tax return is just three days away. But if you are a salaried individual and can’t file your return by July 31, don’t worry. Because you still have a little less than two years — till March 31, 2010 — to do that. Read more here: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14725159

UGC has listed out a bunch of names of management universities that are “fake”: http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html. It is not surprising to see IIPM’s name in that list. “Indian Institute of Planning & Management(IIPM),133/4,Qutab Enclave,Phase-II, New Delhi � 110 016.” I always had a feeling that IIPM was all about Times Of India ads, and Arindham Chowdhary…

Over the past year and a half we have been working with the EE department of IIT Bombay in creating a easy to use GUI for their Sequel circuit simulator. I have had an opportunity to work with Prof. Patil and Prof. Chandolkar of EE Department IIT Bombay. One of the things anyone will notice…

I got my VISA to travel to Belgium for Akademy. That was the last of the hurdles to clear for making the trip happen. With that out of the way, I am now 100% sure that I will be flying to Belgium for attending Akademy 🙂

http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Programmer-.html&Itemid=29 I thought that this was a very interesting article. +20Million to this point “I often get personally asked, and see the question come up online a lot, what courses a person should take in college if they want to become a professional programmer. I took a fairly broad range of classes in college (Caltech),…

I got my new Dell Laptop today. It is an absolute treat. Some powerhouse laptop it is… 15in Widescreen Truelife LCD, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, Core Duo Intel Processor, NVIDIA 8600 MGT, Integrated WebCam, WiFi, Bluetooth headphones, noise cancellation earphones, Vista Home Premium…. good value for money.

Got my tickets booked to Belgium, booked my stay, got the conference invite.. next step: apply for VISA. I have also placed an order for Dell XPS 1530. It should arrive anytime next week. I was thinking of buying it for quite sometime, felt that I needed a better laptop for this year. Last week…