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/

My foss.in Experiences

I had been to the foss.in 2009, Bangalore.
I got a lot of experience there which i would like to share here..


I registered as a volunteer.
There was a volunteer meet on 30th november. I attended the meet, shilpa sequiera gave the instructions how to volunteer.
First i thought it was a tough job..!


Then the next day i was at the registration area. It was nice talkin with tejas, dafne, etc..
Then came my friend, Ramnish from Nellai, it was really nice talking with him, he was a Fedora user. I was hanging around in the venue with him for 4 days, he too taught me a lot regarding the command line and much more..!
I had a list of people whom i should meet within the 5 days regarding the project which i'm doing..


I met Ajuonline, i saw his GSOC t-shirt(!) went near him and asked about how to participate in GSOC. And the most interesting thing was, i used to hang around in irc channels where i used to see ajuonline, but couldnt recognize that it was him when i was talking to him.
He explained me how all i could enter into gsoc, he also told me to fix some bugs in the areas i'm interested. At the end i asked him for his mail id, only then i knew it was ajuonline(his id card showed Speaker: "Ajay Kumar")..! I was really surprised because i usually thought i couldnt meet him..!




The next person who impressed me was the cool guy 'Jon Philips', he gave a talk on identi.ca. I was a hall marshall of there. (Hall marshalling: volunteers are required to help ensure the smooth running of talks in each of the halls. They will be required to introduce speakers, take care of the hall equipment, and generally ensure that everything happens according to schedule).


Meanwhile i talked to Kishore Bhargava that i need to meet some web people regarding my project. He gave me a great idea- "Write on your id - 'Interests- web development'"! He told he could point out somebody.


Then the next person i met was Tarique Sani of SANIsoft. He gave me some ideas regarding my project. 
Two more web people i met were Avinash & Gopal, who both gave me some great ideas  for my project... Avinash was really cool..!


Third day, My laptop didnt boot, i left it in the hibernate mode, aft which i couldnt reboot it. It showed "Booting Error:Invalid environment variable", I couldnt fix it! Again ran for help- Kishore and Allen fixed it..! So nice of them:)

I was terrified when i thought "i dont know anything".


That day i planned to attend the KDE Project of the day.
The session started, i really enjoyed Pradeepto's talk, then the bug fixes, etc.
At the end of the session got a t-shirt too..!
Sujith fixed a bug in the 'bouncing ball' application. Akarsh Simha and Vinesh fixed a bug in Kstars.
The bug fixes were really awesome..! Inspired even me to fix a bug..!


I was amazed to see real foss people like this...!! The KDE Team inspired me a lot..


The last day, before leaving the venue, I met Sujith H of the KDE team.
I had a nice time talking to him..
After talking to him, i understood how friendly the KDE community is..!
I also talked to him about my inferiority complex that i felt that 'i dont know anything, all are from IIT, and prestigious colleges..'. Then sujith adviced me not to think like that..!
Here is one of my pic at KDE session http://www.flickr.com/photos/sujith-h/4156418936/in/set-72157622796211453/, i'm on the first row with my friend Ramnish.


I also had a very nice time with the other volunteers like aslam, ramesh, etc..


With this, the next day i returned to Chennai, having a thought in my mind 'i should too do something before next year, and be one among the speakers..'


Waiting for the next foss.in..!

Force Quiting Applications From Command Line

 I didnt know how to force Quit applications from the command line. Yesterday my friend(Ravi Jaya) taught me how to..!


$pgrep process_name (Type this in the command line, So the output will be the process id)


pid: 1245 (this is the process id)




$sudo kill -9 1245 (This command will force quit the application.

Configuring The TATA Indicom SXC 1080 USB Modem on Ubuntu

I had a problem with configuring my TATA Modem in my laptop. I googled a lot and found out how to fix the problem..
This is the way i configured my TATA Indicom USB SXC 1080 type modem.


1.Insert the modem.


2.Then click on the Network Connections icon, or go to System->Preferences->Network Connections.


3.U can See New Mobile Broadband Connection. Click on it.


4.Click next and Select the device as Tata Indicom (plug2surf) Connection.


5.Then edit the connection with phone number #777(It might be present), username- internet, password-internet, then check the "connect automatically" checkbox.


6.For the fist time the connection wont be establisted. Just restart the system with the modem plugged in.


Then you are done..!!!!


Connection will be established now..!

Where's Freedom?

Sitting under the wings of darkness,
I always think, "Why all these happens only to me?"
Why is my life in "full of darkness"?

Is there no 'mercy' on me?
If 'yes', why?
Why should i hav been born in such an 'orthdox' family,
Who would never encourage me to move out to 'explore' things?

Sitting under the wings of darkness,
I always think, "Why all these happens only to me?"
Why is my life in "full of darkness"?

Why should i be living in this world without having rights
to even 'think' of my own?

In my life 'someone' decides about everything, even the
way i should live,
Then y am i living still?

Sitting under the wings of darkness,
I'm still thinking "would i get some light to live"?

Will i get answers for these?
or wont i get at all?

I ask to myself "Will you get freedom to explore yourself?"
Yes, i'm still searching where is freedom...
When will i get it?
Or will i just die being a 'slave' in my lifetime?

Does anyone know answers for all these......?