On the track

Few days before, just after  2 days of release of the Beefy Miracle, thought of preupgrading  my F16 Box. I did face three issues before I could install the Miraculous Beefy

1) The Preupgrade fails throwing an exception while finding storage devices, and quits.

Work Around : Found the main reason of this exception was an debugfs entry in /etc/fstab. Commented out the line and then ran the preupgrade successfully. Refer Bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826738

2) Preupgrade Installation Process halts due to installation issues of a package. It was the package “ruby-libs”. First I thought may be it’s a problem with this package, but the error popped up was “A fatal error occurred when installing the ruby-libs package. This could indicate errors when reading the installation media. Installation cannot continue.”

Work Around : There was a sudden point which came to my mind, my internet did trip once during the Preupgrade run in my box. The Preupgrade process didn’t fail though – strange enough , it did complete smoothly without any errors. I tested the rpm archive of “ruby-libs” and found it incomplete and corrupted. I downloaded the f17 rpm for “ruby-libs”placed it in the /var/cache/preupgrade and re ran Preupgrade process from the start, and voila the installation procedure completed successfully. Refer Bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650854

3) After successful and complete installation of Beefy, logged in to it. It always feels nice to be running the latest Fedora and getting all the new applications and features up to date. Just thought of shutting down and going to sleep, and #fck there came a kernel Panic while shutting down the system. The error which popped up is jotted below

“/shutdown: 33: /shutdown: sh: not found

[28228.459553] Kernel panic – not syncing: attempted to kill init!”

Manually used the power off button to turn off my machine. The next time Grub loaded it threw few quick errors and then didn’t at all show up the F17 entry. Googled a bit for the error and came up with the solution -

Work Around : # grub2-mkconfig > /etc/grub2.cfg && grub2-install /dev/sda

Refer Bug : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=822760

After that rebooted my system, all problems have gone and Beefy Miracle is throwing up a miraculous charm in my pretty old 2GB ram Laptop. Hopefully I get mesmerized with this miraculous charm, till the arrival of the Spherical Cow !!

Its been a bit late to start writing the report, many of the other fedora members and attendees for FUDCon KL have already blogged it a week ago. I was stuck through out last week, with office stuffs and little bit of my own work. During the days of FUDCon KL 2012 I was always picking up pointers to what I feel to be spoken about regarding FUDCon KL 2012. Its now time.

FUDCon Kl Day 1

Day 1 started with a call from the volunteers for getting down for breakfast. Breakfast ? wait I am still sleeping, but omg its 8:20 am and today starts FUDCon KL where the bus starts from 9:00 am !! Not any other different day for me, so from Bed to Shower and down for breakfast JIT. Today I didn’t have talk, though had to prepare a bit for the my slides on the 2nd day. So after having all kinds of non veg available for the breakfast all of us started for the UCTI campus (venue for #fudconkl2012).

The venue had lots of nice group of people attending and thronging registration desks. Starting from college guys to various professionals, crowd had a nice mix. Today’e keynote was given by Christoph Wickert (@cwickert) on “Leadership in Leaderless Organization”. You can have a look for the video here. The talk gave an insight upon how FOSS and Fedora as such have leaders, but still they are different than the leadership in traditional organizations and their lines of thought. After the keynote @KageSenshi started the call for Barcamp style sessions for Day 1. To my surprise, there were at least 30 sessions pitched which forced to reduce the length of sessions from 1 hr to 30 mins. Few sessions were gr8 to listen to and work upon, specially Fedora documentation by Joshua Wulf (@sitapati), LaTeX by @FranciscoD, Agile System Testing by @rtnpro (Though few things went above my head).

Lunch in between was for quite long time, me , kushal, rtnpro and Michel sat together and discussed about FOSS and Linux events in general. Michel and me shared thoughts on PhD and the subject of interests we did share. @rtnpro being out of his Den to abroad first time he was not at all satisfied with what he was eating as a vegetarian. He still needed “Dal, Rice and Aalu Siddho” [Lentils, Rice and Boiled Potatoes] at least. This dream retained being one still he was back to his home in India I guess. In the meanwhile I was quitely preparing my slides with inputs from @mether for #AskFedora talk scheduled the next day. Day 1 did end after hectic barcamp schedule and to me, it was great to hear short and crisp topics within such short time. We reached back to hotel a bit late and then finished off my slides. After that it was only me and sleep

FUDCon Kl Day 2

It was the day for the scheduled sessions, and just after the keynote I had my two sessions (in two different rooms). The keynote for the day was given by Joshua Wulf (@sitapati) on Increasing the participation to FOSS. He stressed on really important points and explained it to a ease in his presentation. Community growth and participation was something he stressed upon in his talk and on the later half did show newbies that how to contribute to Fedora even if you are not a coder. His Fedora book was something very interesting and to make your hands dirty its best to at least start contributing and what else than a documentation. After the keynote I ran across the 3rd Floor room, I had my first presentation on “Fedora in Education” and how to get involved in it. There were few people during the start, and after 10 minutes or so it did sprung up. My age old Acer again refused to get connected to the projector and I had to borrow @rtnpro’s laptop for the presentation. I spoke about all the prospective areas where Fedora is used in Education and newbies who does have a knack or love for contribution, this can be their starting point. People did show some enthusiasm and asked me about few details about how to start contributing. Soon after my first session I ran to the AUDITORIUM for my 2nd one regrading #AskFedora. Main aim of this presentation was to let the awareness of a Fedora Q/A platform seep through the minds of people developing and using it. The need of having such a Q/A platform is to get the user experience , problems getting captured and thus be able to create a documentation full of solutions to real life scenarios. In the end of session I was able to get at least 2 people who were django developers and were willing to contribute to #AskFedora upstream #askbot. Me and @rtnpro had long lasting discussions regarding how to increase contributions and people joining and helping in #AskFedora. Next in Line was the presentation by @maktrix and @rtnpro about localization, crowdsourcing and transifex. After two sessions and several other sessions of transifex from @rtnpro, I must say my interest has grown a lot towards the localization platform and specially Transifex being a pioneer to it. After all these a small break and then some Lightning talks, believe me it was the catch for the day. @cwickert -> LXDE session let me start using LXDE after that I have not regretted a single moment for switching from GNOME 3 to LXDE. Another gr8 talk from @cwickert was about the cloud, and the way he presented it, nobody took eyes of the slide. Lot of other witty and informational talks also went in parallel and everybody in the crowd thoroughly enjoyed it. It was like a stress buster from a menu of scheduled sessions.

And the most important FUDPub was to be held today, but here in KL it was Buffet of a variety of food which was served and people satisfied there taste buds with those . After the food @cwickert came in his Beefy Miracle costume and so did the Fedora logo ed cakes to celebrate the release of F17 (Beefy Miracle). Cake was mainly smashed into each others face, thanks to the Cake war started by @kushal. It ended in people throwing other food and drinks too, and soon people started running to avoid getting cakes smashed into face. It was lot of fun and may be best ever FUDPub without any alcohol

FUDCon Kl Day 3

After FUDPub or rather FOODCon, @me, @kushal and @rtnpro started having thoughts on doing some random hacks or a brainstorm to develop something short and sweet and pretty useful. @kushal after showing his King like stature in #cakewar , finally thought of doing something useful and he was pretty harsh on the deadlines as he thought something to be delivered as 1st revision, the next day. Life is not always in peace and calmness. We jammed (code) till midnight and came up to display and redesign the vision in which System logs are presented to normal or generic users who uses Linux just for browsing and day to day work. To dedicate the birth of this small tool in Malaysia we named it “tlogt” or “TowerlogTower” [inspired from the Petronas Towers]. This logs as of now only parses the Boot and the Secure logs and delivers it in a much presentable way. Me and Kushal are busy in writing the parsers whereas rtnpro is the guy responsible for creating the whole django UI. Kushal slept a bit early but me and @rtnpro made it sure at least the milestone set for that night is fulfilled before we surrender ourselves to the sleep Goddess.

Next day morning me and @rtnpro both were not in mood to attend the morning sessions as our heads were still jammed with “tlogt” We managed to pursue @maktrix and all of us went to visit KLCC Aquaria. After that short trip we came back to UCTI for the afternoon hack sessions and bof’s. Again did sit for the same old and oldest session on Python basics taken by Kushal, probably the nth time. Kushal is recursive tutorial book on Python and he loves doing it

Abu Mansar Manaf gave the closing keynote and really boosted people regarding “FOSS and contributions made to it” in 15 minutes (that too without slides). In the rest of the #hack sessions I was still fiddling with “tlogt” code as I am quite a newbie in Python (rather this stands as my first code in python ). The day ended in Galaxy Tab raffles and the two winners were happy as ever. In the evening snack we got the beefy miracle (though it was chicken, so we could eat it) and people enjoyed having it. After that there were numerous photo shoots, group, single, few , few more and what not. All photos can be found in Flickr (search for #fudconkl2012). The links to the event reports for this FUDCon and related pictures can be found out in a single Wiki page (thanks to Ankur).

After the event end we had a sumptuous dinner covering Malaysian delicacies. Here “we” in the last line was all the organizers, along with Kushal, me, Micheal, rtnpro. It was fun specially because of the nice company of people and excellent food. Kushal, me and fellow fedorans from Srilanka did have flight at morning 6:00 am from KL. So @rtnpro, @kage and all others did see us off and we did start for the journey bidding adieu to KL and Sri Petaling Hotel (that’s where we stayed for the last few days).

Every good things come to an end, and so did FUDCon KL 2012. A definite worthy and notable praise for @KageSenshi and his few member team of powerhouse performance people, else it would not be feasible for drawing and successfully completing a International event in such small notice period. Made a lot of new friends, @kaio, @seatux86, @Gurdip, @hircus, @MavJS and probably many others whom I know much by face than by name. Somehow Fedora family never makes me feel that I am new and unknown to any event, its always like a group of known people and faces probably you are meeting in person for the first time.

It was Wednesday, and by early morning 7:30 am, I was ready to leave my house for the Hyderabad airport (to Chennai -> Kualalumpur) . With all the time I have to wait at Chennai International airport due to my early arrival and late evening flight to Kualalumpur, the only good part I felt was Kushal would be there for company, and 2ndly after all its a International airport so time should pass by like a breeze (based upon my Hyd and Bangalore Airport experiences).

Man proposes and GOD disposes. Chennai International airport looked as if a Open ground with 4 chairs around the corner. Free 20 minutes of Kbps speed wifi and a strong and weak AC at places started making life miserable the moment I arrived there. There were no food stalls around except some dead meat stale sandwiches. #yuck

After a long wait, cursing @AirAsia and Chennai International Airport, our flight had a delayed start of 3 hrs at 8:00 p.m IST. The problem was @KageSenshi was supposed to wait for us and we were afraid that from night 00:10 am KL time the wait can extend more 3 hrs till deep midnight. Kushal gave a call to Izhar(@kagesenshi) to explain him the state out here. Finally we boarded our AirAsia flight, and with lots of turmoils in which parts of the airbus was falling out during journey, we reached KL somehow safely.

Me and Kushal were ecstatic to see @kagesenshi was still waiting for us in KLCC airport till 3:30 am local time. He was given company by @FranciscoD, @adimania, @kumarpraveen who arrived 3 hrs before and were kind enough to wait for us. We boarded Kage’s mom’s van before which Aditya grabbed a Pizza for himself. With torrential rains and a long haul we finally reached the hotel and checked in. When we thought we probably could call a Good night to everyone, it was Kage who called and said he needed some help to get the swags from Car to the hotel room. In our dullest and drowsiest looks Kushal and me dragged ourselves and arranged the swags to the hotel room. As it was already 7:00 am, Kage, me and Kushal thought to have our breakfast done before going to “So called” nap. The nap did last for 2 hrs hardly, when the whole gang … Kage, Ankur, Aditya, Praveen, me, mak (@maktrix), Kushal got out for KL tour. We (atlast we consisted of Kushal and me, as rest of all people separated and roamed around their #placestovisit list) moved across the city and reached at hotel room by night 11:30 p.m (that too walking 3 kms from station to hotel). The whole day tour itself can be blogged separately (it was so full of variety) but probably I will do that later on. At around night 1:00 am we just slept not knowing we were sleeping till early morning #wakeup call came to let us know that “#fudconkl2012″ BEGINS !!

Lots of back packing + back to blogging

Two sessions there + ongoing slides for that … and yes I am going to #fudconkl2012 .

See you all there

Packaging pyflag was one of the 3 mistakes of my life . Rest two will not be related to fedora, so has escaped the planet. Not only it has a dead upstream but also have so many issues, that after fixing may be 50 issues you are left with another 60. The problem is because of a dead upstream there is nobody to respond to your queries or solve the problems in the application tarball.

After getting so many pointers from @FranciscoD and @praveenkumar was able to submit the package for review with issues I cannot resolve without upstream help. Thankfully got someone to review after mailing Fedora-devel. The next problem occurred the very next day where the package did fail to build in 64 bit boxes due to some make issues in using libdir.

A patient @FranciscoD guided me throughout and debugged what may have been the cause of the issue as I told him to build it and check in his 64bit laptop (Mine is still a 32bit old monk). He got the issues and we fixed it (the “we” here is mainly “he” ). It was midnight by that time, and so he did doze off leaving to me a SPEC file which by any means got a new line or a carriage return and failed to get build either in mock or koji scratch build. I got mighty pissed off and slept off at around early morning.

Bullish way to say screw them, is to write the spec file from scratch and I did it to remove the holy carriage return which went undetected with all the sed tips and tricks across the internet. SUCCESS !!

Uploaded the current version to the review request, hopefully this time it doesn’t fails at the build itself. Amen !

From few days I was trying to install some third party Rhythmbox plugins on my F16 machine. I did try all the means to do it (copying it to the /local/share) and other folder whichever had a plugin name in it and associated with Rhythmbox, but nothing worked. Thinking it was the problem with the plugin I downloaded, I left the task there.

Today after a question in AskFedora I tried to install the cover flow plugin and to my surprise found that I even couldn’t get that installed anyway. After lot of googling found out that this is a bug with the latest Rhythmbox shipped with Fedora 16, in which you coudn’t install new plugins. The bug is already filed here

Hopefully this problem resolves soon and some patch gets released so that 3rd party plugins can be installed again in Rhythmbox.

Problem in staying with @kushaldas and that too regarding a Linux event is your sleep gets mostly screwed as he will be having some responsibility for which he has to start at early midnight (at least for me) and so I have to follow.

FUDCon Day 1

Wakeup call starts at 5:00 am. Brain senses fails to understand what’s happening and why, trying to sleep : but not feasible. So woke up and got ready within 6:30, me and Kushal had to reach Cocoon Hotel by 7:00 to make sure that we all have our breakfast and start by 8:00 am. After a healthy breakfast in Cocoon we started at around our scheduled time with all speakers. We were accompanied with the Fedora Project Leader Jared Smith (@jsmith). I am meeting him first time, and he was really a nice and humble person down to earth. Our target destination for FUDCon was COEP, Pune. We reached there more or less on time and it was the time to start the Keynote Speech from Jared Smith. One great part as a event in FUDCon is that you could see people are always trying to make the things better (starting from the volunteers, to event organizers). Jared Smith’s keynote was very inspiring specially regarding the point about upstream and river, and also “talk doesn’t cook rice”. He also shared along with everybody what he thought were the coming challenges and what is his vision of Future. It was full house, and very interactive Start to Day 1 FUDCon. You can watch the video for his talk here.

Another thing worth mentioning is I met with lot of new people (Fedora Contributors across the world and India) some of them are @praveenkumar, @FranciscoD , @azneita , @jsimon , @rsc , @sagarun (Don’t get afraid by his twitter profile pic, he’s not that dangerous ) , @maktrix , @vaidikkapoor , @SrishAkaTux , @danishka … ahhh a lot of names. Went to Transifex session hosted by @rtnpro. It was a nice insight on the translation platform. Post lunch attended Fedora Web of Trust where I signed my gpg keys, thanks to @azneita. @sagarun ‘s session got a mass audience but sadly I missed it. Vaidik’s talk on FUDCon and similar COD development framework was very helpful, and from that I got some encouragement to get started with COD and Drupal regarding my web development work. But having same clash I missed Sitaram’s talk on Gitolite, you can watch it here . It was nice to listen to his talk on video and also he being from TCS, gives a extra happiness. Ending Day 1 with your own session is the only thing you can ask for, and I got it. When I thought to speak regarding tracing, never thought I will get a audience of 20 or 25+. Had a nice session except some initial hiccups with the projector and the good thing is crowd was bearing with me. It was nicely interactive and people started asking questions after the session and I felt happy to answer all of them. After coming to hotel from COEP @rahulsundaram headed a fun filled gossiping and chatting session involving Vaidik, Praveen, Laxmi, Daniska , me and Ankur and @tuxdna. The discussion went from Politics to God knows what not subject and ended up on horrible lines written everywhere in Cocoon Hotel rooms. @rahulsundaram’s “bugger” was a term I heard more than countable times that day. The day ended with a awesome dinner at Cocoon where @sagarun was the talk of the evening (due to his [or not his] #BabyPink Slippers). @sagarun tasted his first drinks that evening with a Mojito and later did all sort of post actions possible in this world. That evening’s dinner details would take me a page to discuss, so cutting it short here. Day 1 was super smooth, its very rarely of a event as big as FUDCon to go as smooth as silk. Numerous volunteers, Lot of talks and most importantly a group of Friends, that’s what was FUDCon Day 1.

FUDCon Day 2

I hate waking up from bed early in the morning, but the past repeats itself and again we are out of the Cocoon by 8:30 towards COEP. I was super excited from the Day 2 start regarding the FUDpub in the evening. Keynote session started with Harish Pillay. That day the next thing to do was to attend @sagarun’s talk on Django and a hands on on how to create web apps with it. Me and Vaidik was following the session and just after Vaidik downloaded and installed to Django to follow @sagarun’s session, the wireless went off and I coudn’t try anything hands on, just had to listen to @sagarun speak. But his talk was very organized and nice for any beginner (specially his slides). In all these 1st and 2nd day the most peaceful and Speaker’s hanging out place was Speaker’s Den . My laptop wireless was facing some issues and so me, vaidik, Ankur, and Arun was at Speaker’s lounge. After that the lunch schedule started and everybody was busy eating, @kushaldas was busy clicking.

Kushal started making his videos regarding experience of FUDCon from all speakers and on 3rd day from all volunteers. Next pit stop for talks was Security Exploits by @siddhesh_p. Stack Smash Attacks was what I came across when I was working to develop the Interrupt Handler for PMC counters for PowerPC Architecture. It was nice to see Siddesh explaining it with practical examples using GDB. Stack Back Chain and the LR can be overwritten (with assembly hack) and thus used to open something fishy was the major takeaway for me from that workshop. Even Siddesh talked about the recent improvements in GlibC which has protection against such attacks. 2nd day was going pretty good considering both @sagarun and @siddesh_p session helped me a lot to know new things. @SrishAkaTux session on #PyGoocanvas was good considering the amount of college students got interested to know about it later on, and thus they were moving all round Srishti. @SrishAkaTux made @sagarun (The person associated with the #BabyPink Slippers) delete a tweet which I was not allowed or rather supposed to tell.. Oops . There was a all together group photo shoot of everyone in FUDCon and that was super Fun because of the @rahulsundaram’s famous quote “I say FUD, you say CON – FUDCON or FoodCon” I am still confused with the pronunciation as many people pronounced otherwise than FUDCon. And now we were slowly getting set for #FUDPub.

Jared got himself sick so he missed the experience but I can just say it was a experience you need to have. Electrifying atmosphere, friendly people, snacks and food and most importantly Beer. I don’t like Beer, but still managed to drink 3. Dance Floor was on fire as all the volunteers and many of us speakers were into the floor, some started unwillingly but later enjoyed it a lot. Ankur lost all his tiredness created due to his earlier 4 talks with innumerable bear bottles. Arun did Push ups even drinking half beer, Praveen Kumar being lean as a stick managed 7+ beer bottles and @rahulsundaram called me Moron++ after me mistakenly made face drinking water from Kushal’s glass which I presumed to be Vodka. Moron+++ should be Kushal to be drinking water in a f #pub. FUDPub for me was a great event to socialize and interact with people on a personal level and it was awe …. wait for it… some experience.

FUDCon Day 3

Thankfully and nicely we didn’t woke up so early in morning (Nobody was in a state to). We started late at 9:30′ish from Cocoon. COEP was ready to host FUDCon day 3 (#hackfest). I had my hackfest on packaging tracing tools for Fedora, but decided to merge it with the @rsc’s package review hackfest which also had @jsimon, @azneita, @praveenkumar, @FranciscoD. Ankur and Praveen helped me a lot to get through the packaging of my stuffs and also to start packaging pyflag. Lunch was awesome Pizza’s from my favorite Smokin Joe’s. All people were either in the audi or Seminar hall 2 working on various topics of there interest. Starting from Transifex to AskFedora to Dorrie and Puppet. Day 3 didn’t have that rush of talks and thus was mainly concentrated on individual liking of technical hackathon.

After Day 3 end in COEP we all met at Cocoon for Dinner with Jared and the good news was he was completely feeling fine. @rahulsundaram can make u laugh your everything off and he was on his full flow that day. Dinner table was full of fun discussions and leg pulling and of course the never ending #BabyPink slippers. It was a long list of people and all were somehow or the other having loads of fun during the dinner. There came the famous token of “nested bullshit” too by Kashyap After food we all headed to Jared’s room and there began the serious part of discussions relating to Fedora, its future, developments, #whattoimprove , community, challenges and targets and few measures. We had Coffee in between along with few beers. Lot of people left in middle as they had to travel coming morning. I too had to, but I didn’t wanna miss any part of it.

Didn’t sleep the whole night, packed bags till Arun was already on the doorstep of Kushal’s building (where I stayed) to pick me up at 4:00 am in the morning to get the flight at 6:00 am. Whole through the cab we discussed about how FUDCon was and how much we did like it along with many other stuffs (about Arun’s new job). Soon thereafter Arun Boarded the flight followed by me marking the end to the journey of this year’s FUDCon.

Every good thing comes to an end, and so did FUDCon. Irrespective of erratic sleep and wake up timings, irrespective of lengthy sessions and tiresome whole day, irrespective of sleepless night and directly landing to office, this moments which I did spend here for last 3 days would be cherished years after by me. I have attended few technical workshops and conferences across India and few outside, but no where it gave me so many new friends to start with. FUDCon to me was more than FoodCon, it was a friends hangout circling one of the awesome Linux distros I have ever used, “FEDORA”. Cheers !!

FuDCoN is a huge event, and that’s why the pressure is huge on all organizers and volunteers. We witnessed the largest ever Fudcon here in Pune, India. Its the night before Fudcon and @rahulsundaram , @kushaldas , /me and @rtnpro were those who were at Kushal’s place discussing something. Suddenly Rahul pointed out that there are power failures in the venue (transformer failure to be accurate) and thus there will be no Electricity, which means in short and sweet “Speak without slides“. Thanks to @kushaldas this type of news never remains a secret for long and thus more or less it started to bring a series of mixed reaction of fear and forced confidence in the speaker’s camp. Thankfully I read speaker guidelines in wiki day before coming to the event and strangely abide line by line. So, I have printout of my slides

When I did arrive in Pune at night 10:30 pm, many speakers were yet to reach and @kushaldas made me run just after keeping my bag at his place, to accompany him to hotel to make sure all speakers got there T-shirts, goodies and the schedule for next day. As more torture, @kushaldas made it sure that hotel gives a wake up call at morning 6:00 am to the speakers :O

With all these happening and a full mind of thoughts in everyone as to how India’s first ever Fudcon will be, sleep conquered us !!

Its been 2 months since I blogged, was much busy in my final presentations of DSD (Distributed Software Development). A very nice final demo, in which all the prof’s were very pleased. Expecting excellent grades from this subject.

After the completion of that subject marked the end of Semester 1. A very happy smiling faces all through every people, with the temperature also shooting to bit more higher level at -12 degree C (Earlier it was -30 degree C ) adding cherry on the frozen cake

Good things doesn’t last long and again thesis (the main hurdle) comes forward. Its a thesis at Ericsson and the topic is also quite interesting. For the first part of it I was trying hard from the last few days to recompile the kernel to install LTTng.  Presently working on a Ubuntu 9.10 virtual box (as because it is same as Uni lab) and after 3 days of kernel panics, clock synchronization errors, blank screens while booting finally and successfully installed LTTng kernel and Control packages. Excellent tool to use and seeing the trace results makes you feel more good.

At present LTTng happily, am working on the document for LTTng Installation along with the problems faced by me, and also use of certain kernel patching tools like quilt.

Will blog soon taking time from my hectic but awesomely interesting thesis work , ciao

From Thursday night coding for the Distributed Software Development project. PHP being something new which I was using for this project and so it took bit time to learn it but thanks to Google and some ebooks I learnt how to work on it. All the 4 modules of our project assigned to me were completed by the start of Saturday morning. I didn’t sleep for Thursday night and Friday half night though . All standalone modules were working really very good and at last on Saturday (after Thursday night) I moved out to meet my project team at the University. We started integration but I don’t know why every module just after integrating inside the CakePHP framework was getting beaten badly. All the conventions and all are being followed still some strange variable mapping errors are given while specially integrating Google maps and Forums. Whole night have passed through .. no sleep and food (had just 1 apple) and still struggling. We have to present this on Monday and so all are worried and working day IN night OUT to complete the project.

Hopefully Integration works out well for us and we be one of the successful teams to demonstrate the complete project in BETA release