Courtesy: http://cis-india.org/advocacy/floss/software-freedom-day/competition-blog/essay-competition-for-software-freedom-day

I met Sunil of CIS India last Saturday in RVCE college during Software Freedom day celebrations.

The Free Software Users Group of Bangalore and the Centre for Internet and Society in collaboration organise an essay competition for schools and colleges in Bangalore on the topic of "Software Freedom"

Source: Mrinal

Microsoft just released Silverlight 2 RC0, which is a development release to help developers prepare their apps for Silverlight 2. They’ve not released an end-user runtime for this version since the release candidate is targeted at helping developers prepare their Silverlight 2 Beta 2 apps for the Silverlight 2 release. You can get the developer runtime and updates for Visual Studio Silverlight tools and Expression Blend here.

Looks like they moved around lot of stuff, so there are several breaking changes. You can download a detailed document about the changes here. Mike Snow also has a detailed post describing the changes.

Get Silverlight 2 Release Candidate 0

Last Saturday 20th Sep and 21st Sunday I went to Koorg along with my teammates Engage.

I missed one of long waiting session "Embedded systems" but I thought I have to take some fresh air.

We stayed in an Estate  saw elephant , rafting across cauveri , a sight seeing place ,good food , then Cauveri sangamam ..we walked along the river.(really I enjoyed this especially)its like an adventure , then Mysore palace in lights ..

 

I came back on Sunday night 1 pm

 

Then I got mail that I have to prepare for Chennai consulate for B1.

For the first time I felft that my company thought I am worthful .

I was fully tensed.

 

Y becoz I kept a vow that I shouldnt travel by flight until a business need.

I am alone and went to Chennai on a Kingfisher (actually Deccan) , staying in  3 star , standing in the line at consulate at Gemini fly over, successfully getting visa, coming back on flight ... oh God how much time u made me to wait for this.

 

I starred at the same line from the same fly over 5 yrs back for my turn when I use to pass through by a bus ...

Finally I was in the line.

 

After coming back another news that I am not going and was assigned in another project ..

 

OK  still waiting.. Still some more tests to face ..

 

Atleast first flight , line before consulate , words like security check in , boarding pass, coming back from Bangalore Airport on a A/C Volvo bus..

 

These are silly things but for me these are precious..I can afford flight ticket but thats not my intention all these 5 yrs.

 

Y becoz company felt that I am adding value to them.

 

I am not going this time ...but I am ok .

 

Last year left offer from Singapore onsite for Proteans.

Poured water on my MS hopes after my engineering

 

May be for this oppurtunity it happened like that.

 

Again I was in .net 3.5 project..

 

I noticed these changes in Chennai:

people speaking Hindi. Good change.

Temperature : As usual hot

Beauty:  Its hard to see a nice looking girl.

People Nature :Still they will seperate other states. But my best friends are from Chennai.

Traffic : More better than Bangalore and cheap fares.But food cost increased

Business proposal

Training

Participate in business discussions to initiate the new phase of the development

Participate in training in order to understand needs of product development

 

They have a customer base of 3000 - 4000 [domain name ] related institutions. [Client company name ] provides [domain] services.

They invited {our company name} for training on their product to understand their client usage pattern and to discuss the road map for the next few years of the product.

We will get some use cases

 

Dont tell enhancements in US consulate.

Just tell understand their product and may prepare  better solutions.

 

Why u?

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I have similar exposure in the domain. My company feels that I am having the right exposure to this product.

I'm lost. Please take me home with you..

 

Marriage : Game over

 

All good guys go to heaven.All bad guys go to women.

 

Do you know the meaning of ABCDEFG ( A boy can do everything for girl.

Reverse the meaning of GFEDCBA          ( Girls forgot everything done and catches new boy again)

 

Why are you standing there reading the long and stupid message printed on my shirt!!!

 

Who says nothing is impossible I've been doing nothing for years

 

Damn right. I'm good in bed I can sleep for days.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work - he is the purpose of it. We are not doing him a favour by serving him. He is doing us a favour by giving us the opportunity to serve him.

- Mahatma Gandhi

Google-Backed 'O3b' Satellites Promise High-Speed Internet Access

 

Refer : http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=210600659

I attended Barcamp 7 (only on Saturday) on 12th Sept 2008.

 

Concept Search by Core objects guys is ok.

I attended an interesting Embedded Linux demo by Khasim of Texas Instruments ( beagleboard.org ) .Really good one.

 

Satyam guys (BIPIN and his team) on Opensocial google gadgets and Shindig container (of Apache) is good

And RSI Parashuram sessions on hacking opensocial and SNAPP( making simple website into social networking site) is good.

Tackle is phishing kit.

 

 

WOLF framework guys are doing a good job. Their concept is good. New idea.

Then a small discussion on different javascript frameworks  ( Ajax,Extjs,dojo,yui,jquery,gwt,sprout,prototype) is excellent.

 

JSON,JSONP, Dojo closures, Dojo compressor,

 

Liveblob by Rakesh, STORZ by Pooran

Google Sky http://www.google.co.in/sky/index.html 

 

Microsoft      http://worldwidetelescope.org/

 

 

 

 

On 10th Sep at 3 pm I went to Leela Palace for Yahoo's How Big Can You Think series session on "Six Degrees -- The Science of A connected Age".Taken by Duncan Watts (Principal Research Scientist Yahoo Research)

Nearly 200+ folk gathered.(Some 20+ ceo's , 20+ students, 10+ media and remaining are developers)

2 hr session including Q&A.

Full waste.

After hearing that (even in Yahoo Hack Day) I understood why Yahoo is lagging behind in the race.

No fresh research.Old fellows with old ideas.Reinventing the same.

No fresh thoughts and they cant move from that also.

Its better to sell their business to someone.

 

Yahaoo people have to think again before taking sessions.

They spend 2 lakhs roughly for that session but taken 20 lakhs from other companies by attending their session.

200 people multiply by 2 hrs = 400 man hrs (atleast 3k from each per hour).

 

Damn waste.

Last Saturday I went to meet FSUG guys an open source supported community

 

More about this:

Google chrome: A new web browser from Google

 

Last Saturday I went to momo monsoon at IIM bangalore 30th Aug

 

It is not for developer community and cant say it is a marketing stuff but cant learn very little from it (usually from Mobile Monday Bangalore group)

 

Still it has big community as mobile is hot topic now. Forum Nokia is doing a good job as I attended code camp in IIIT Bangalore as I learned JavaME on S40.Nokia acquired Symbian Foundation.

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