Manish’s Scribble Board

For last 24 hours I have been trying my hands on Scalable Vector Graphics(SVG). Its a surely kick-ass format for playing around with Vector Graphics. Now you might be thinking how I bumped into it. By chance I was just browsing the Mozilla Developer Center when I fell across a page in which they explained their stand and implementation of SVG in Firefox. It had some references about this format. The second thing which caught my mind was that Inkscape supports SVG (I didnt knew this). I had used Inkscape before so thought of giving a try, read some basic tutorials and its entry on Wikipedia and then set down to work.

After 24 hours its done! First is the image which gave me the idea how to draw.

I am going to contribute a lot on Inkscape Wiki and Forums. Wait for more graphics of the sort…

It has been four weeks since I started my work here at MSF, Hyderabad. It has been quite interesting and altogether new experience. Out of 9 weeks, only 5 more are remaining and am expected to complete a major portion of the work which am alloted.

Well, apart from doing normal work, I learnt something new stuffs

Hyderabad Food = S. Indian Food - Simplicity + Spices + Chicken - Sambhar

C# = Java - JVM - ClassLoader + MSIL + JIT + CLR - Platform Independence

.NET = RoR - MVC + Horrible Documentation

I was supposed to have a code review today,but as usual I didnt submit my prepared code timely. While submitting today evening, I missed out 2 more rules as I busy cleaning,organizing and documenting my code right from the beginning to the end.

And lastly a bad news. My domain of my Tech Blog www.manishtech.info expired today. I forgot to renew it. Hopefully I wont be extending it. Its too much, since I dont get much time to blog.

Finally I received my Shipit CD of Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, am running a Beta version of this OS presently and the only word which I can say is that “It Rocks”!! This is the first time Bluetooth is working out of the box without any configurations, no Wireless Network Detection still

The Gnome 2.22 version is quite satisfying as first time I got a thumbnail preview while selecting files.
I hope to install the final stable release sooner I get time, I even hope to install Fedora 9 in the other partition to replace Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty which is running horribly after I had played a lot and experimented. I think I first need to reinstall my windows system before trying out with these two.
We have our second paper on Monday- Financial Management, say Best of Luck to me, I need it badly.

And Yeah, Mrinal is now an MIT Ubuntu Ambassador, if you dont believe, check out this pic. Rock was the first person to achieve this status. Check Here

Our friend and beloved CR, Ankur Bansal is one of the laziest person on this earth. When he has no work he gets busy with his GF’s. Imagine of the scene what would happened when one of his GF’s messaged him to get online, only when he found that Vikash’s computer had crashed
This happened a long time back. At that time Rock didnt have his laptop and solely relied on Vikash’s desktop for satisfying the unsatisfied lot (Note: pun intended) . Now what can he do? At that time there came an excellent idea in his mind. He just took out an Ubuntu CD which Vikash had ordered long back and booted from it in *Live Mode*. Net works flawlessly out of Box in Ubuntu, which proved out to be a boon.
This story was leaked out by Rwik and he did give an expert comment, which can be well used for publicity of Ubuntu reguarding its ease of use and simplicity. Here I designed the poster highlighting it.

Note: This story is approved by Rock for public display.

So here goes the fourth event of LUG Manipal which will make a special stamp on the history of this newly founded organization. Firstly clubs/organizations in MIT charge hefty amount of sum for attending workshops and all such events where they teach all shit.

What they teach? HTML, CSS using Dreamweaver! OMG! What is so special about it? I feel like banging my head on the wall when people fall prey to these traps. Dreamweaver is an advanced IDE and people go to attend these workshops thinking that its another new language, only to get disappointed. At max they might teach ASP for a server-side scripting even at the days of ASP.NET. All old and useless technologies of these days! Such pathetic situation.

First I want to make it clear that LUG would not take a single penny from its members for any event as registration fees or event fees. If we do anything that costs us, we gladly inform our members about the same and ask them to make their own accomodation. Here too we are organizing a Web Design and Development Workshop for all the students of Manipal. No registration is required, no charges, it all free! All that’s required is commitment.

We will be teaching Open source Web Development Technologies like LAMP/WAMP. We are hoping to give more preference to LAMP. Now question comes why PHP? Just because its one of the best scripting languages and best when it comes to Open Source web scripting language. Why MySQL? Well there is no other alternative and MySQL just rocks. If you are not satisfied better use MS SQL or Oracle if you have enough powerful hardware, PHP supports both of them. But the feel which you would get with MySQL is difficult to achieve on other database softwares. Why Apache? Its the uncrowned king of webservers. Its deployment is around 70-75% of the servers around the world. What else reason you need? Why Linux? To get the real server like feel, using file permissions, PHP and MySQL are specially optimized for running over Linux.

One more question comes into play is Why not ASP? Its not an open source technology and for me its vastly inferior to PHP, no comment on ASP.NET as I havnt used it. What buggs me most is that many people dont know about PHP and ask questions like “What is PHP? I think ASP is more powerful than PHP“. I ask them have you tried? Then how can you say this? They are dumb-struck! PHP has so many third party extendibility like hundreds of frameworks, Templating Engines, PEAR like packages and many many more. There is simply no end to this great programming language. Thanks Rasmus for your creation.

And Yeah! I forgot to mention that the poster was designed by my friend Aavik! Designing a colour poster is a bit easier than designing a black and white one. Using 8-bit grayscale is somewhat challenging and he did it.

Just a year back on this day, I bought this domain with the intention of having my own web presence. Am now happy to announce that am celebrating the anniversary today to mark exact one year of starting this blog too. At that time I bought it just for $1 though this time am paying some 400INR for the renewal. Now I own two domains, the other one is a Technical Blog, on which am not so active these days (not getting time).

Aside from this I am making my 100th post today to even mark the century of my blogging career. On the other blog, I havnt made much progress as far as number of posts is concerned. Hope to improve it in the future.

I just returned from Revels ‘08, the annual cultural fest of my college, I dont want to mention the quality of the shows but still I cant resist. Better any other MITian, I cant say anything much about my college. We were supposed to wear ethnic wear today as the dress code,unlike last year Revels missed the Celebrity show this time. Well, now I damn care, have hundreds of work to complete ranging from small logo designing to making mass SE projects.

Cheers….