Life at PSG

Hi friends! No post for a long time!
I got into PSG Institute of Management for MBA programme after cracking TANCET 2011.

The bridge between PSG Hostels and PSG College of Technology

My room!!!

And guys believe me, its just awesome out here!
The hostel, food, college and everything!!!!! Really about 1000000 times better than Jaya Engineering College, Chennai where I did my UG.
All the subjects were new! Starting from the first day we had classes till 4pm and then it started extending till evening 6,7, 8pm depending on the classes...
Apart from studies there were a lot of extra curricular :)
Schedules were really hectic, but still we had outbound training trips to Anaikatti and Pondicherry :)
With that first trimester got over and stepped on to the second trimester.
So life is well and good for now :)
This is Aish signing off from PSG IM, Coimbatore ;)

Getting into GSoC :) :) :)

Lemme say first, I got into GSoC last year ie., 2010. I really enjoyed it and this year I will really be glad to help my juniors getting into GSoC 2011.

Step 1 : Learning a technology well, like PHP, Python, Qt, etc. You should really have the required knowledge in the technology to atleast develop a simple application. This will be possibly very easy for those who are very good at programming and those who do some own mini projects. 

Step 2 : Make your hands dirty on a project which uses your well known technology.

For ex : I'm good at PHP, so I started learning about Drupal, Joomla and Moodle.

Step 3 : Choose an organization from the previous list of organizations (if the list is yet to be announced).

Start working with the project and get used to it. Start little coding too. Fixing bugs will also be good.

And please dont get disappointed if the particular organization isnt there in the list. This is because I was much comfortable with Joomla and Moodle, but those didn't participate in GSoC '10. But still you can choose accordingly later.

Step 4 : Start interacting with the community, ie., via the mailing lists and IRC.


Step 5 : Catch a mentor!! Yeah! Catching a mentor before applying is really a plus! This is how I caught my mentor http://lists.typo3.org/pipermail/typo3-dev/2010-March/039428.html See the next threads to see my first interaction with the TYPO3 organization.


Step 6 : Impress your mentor, once you've found one!! Then rock the GSoC!!!!!!


Something which you should keep in mind before applying is that, you much consult your mentor and mention his name in your application (only if you have asked him/her about that and if they are ready to mentor). In this case, chances of getting accepted is more.

Bangalore and me..!!!!

This is probably a very LATE post... But still wanted to post it...
There are some of the situations i faced outside & inside the nimhans conventional centre(foss.in) which i didnt mention in my previous post about the conference...

On 30th, me and my junior XXX(i dont want to mention her name) reached bangalore by 1.30. went straight to her house, got some refreshment and then thought of attending the Volunteer Meet in which i was supposed to meet Shilpa Sequiera who was one of the Organizers of the Foss.in event.

The meet was at 6.30, so i was planning to start early. I called my junior to come with me, but she just told she cant, this was really a bad situation, coz i neither know the way nor the language.


Then she just came with me and told me to go by an auto, dont know how a typical Brahmin family is doing like this, coz we dont treat anyone like this coming to our houses, that too a girl, its really bad saying "go by yourself" in a very new place.

Started alone, by taking an auto. I thought the venue would be a little near, but from Murugeshpalaya it took nearly 1 hour to reach. and Rs.120 as fare. That was so long. Thought of leaving early from there. Met Shilpa and then came out at 7.15 pm, trying to cross the road and at last crossed it at 7.40, waiting for an auto, i was waiting and waiting and at last one auto came at 8pm who agreed to come only if i give him Rs.50 extra.   I had no other go other than giving him the money.In between, i was really in a mentality to cry out!!

Went to her house at 9pm, between didnt even get a call from her where i was, too tensed i was! Went home, called my dad and asked him to come fast and take me to the PG. he came at nearly 11.30pm and then i went to the PG, because of these mess, caught high fever and cold :-(

Caught a friend in PG, Sonali :) She was pretty cute and friendly too. Enjoyed her company. She came with me to the Nimhans Conventional Center and left me there by 8am. I was sitting at the registration desk. Enjoyed the place much. It was sometime later when i met Ramnish who was a friend of Arun Sag. Had nice time with him for the 4 days wherein my juniors always left me alone :P But had fever and cold all the time :( :( :(

Finally left on 6th December with all my juniors :)  :)

DRUPAL ERROR : Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /var/www/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 911

I got the following error when i tried to install Drupal in my Localhost

Deprecated: Function ereg() is deprecated in /var/www/drupal/includes/file.inc on line 911

I got this nearly in 20 lines continuosly :P

A google search got me the following answer. This finally solved my problem.


Finally i added the following lines in my php.ini file

error_reporting  =  E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED
display_errors = Off
log_errors = On 

This finally solved my problem.

GSOC!!!

I applied for GSOC this year for the organization called TYPO3. I was interested very much for Drupal and Joomla, and atlast i didnt get any good response from Drupal developers..
So i selected the TYPO3 Organization as it was too a nice CMS. Soon i composed a mail to the TYPO3 mailing list.. And wat a great surprise, Steffen Kamper told that he would like to mentor as soon as i asked..!!! So started interacting with him.. What an awesome guy..!! He helped me lot in understanding the TYPO3 Media element.. Then on 3rd april i submitted my Proposal. After a long wait, and finally the results were announced here. I was not much eager to know, coz  i thought i can even apply next year if i dont get it.. And today morning, to my great surprise, i got selected!!! There are 5 projects this year for TYPO3 and mine is here.  Srini anna was the first person to call me..!! So a very happy day today!!!! and also very happy to see my name flashing all over my college websites http://jayafossclub.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=162&Itemid=31 , http://jayagc.org , http://jec.ac.in #happy #happy

CodeigniterDirectory and My project

My final year project is all about creating a new library for Codeigniter.
And now its all done..!
And was very happy that my project is listed in the Codeigniter directory.
Now even more happy that my project has got many votes and it has been rated as the top in the listing..


http://codeigniterdirectory.com/home/Work-in-progress-%28ex-2E-SVN-dev-2E%29/Top_Rated


Credits to Sivaji anna... I thank him for giving idea for this project and giving a great support guiding me towards it... :-)

For those who want to migrate from blogger to wordpress.

Some of my friends who wanted to migrate from blogger to wordpress. They didnt know how to get back the previous posts. Here is a link for that..
http://www.labnol.org/internet/switch-from-blogger-to-wordpress/9707/