On the track

I thought I would move from the BcB7 a bit early on the first day as I had something to do back at home. Just when I did thought of leaving, rain joined the party and I was not able to move out. It was a splendid sight of in front of IIMB as there was a strong rainbow (strongest I have ever seen) which led to another big rainbow over it.

Met with Deepa as she was taking pictures of the rainbow, after some interactions came to know that she’s born at Kolkata and was there for 16 years. She told me that she loves Kolkata. She could speak, write and read Bengali. Her native is Tamilnadu but she was born and brought up in Kolkata. Suddenly more than 2000 kms away from home hearing something like it makes you feel good and I got to know Rain casted a spell on me and as always it was for the good.

BcB7 day 1 ends ……………….  

Its now post lunch in Barcamp today. Some sessions are going on , but yah I am done with 2 sesions already , 1 more to go. Maximum mass here are ready to go for any sessions except technical may be thats the reason Barcamp has fewer and fewest Technical Brags talking here and gathering around. Ongoing in the Open Arena there’s some talk’s on sms journalism going on. A small grup attached to that too.

The things you like here is, everything you present or anything you have to say there will be many listening to you and will be the most ever remembered audience you have ever spoken too. Many persions are of college, many are in Jobs (middle aged persons) and many more are entrepreneur’s.

There are people who will always be very very friendly to you no matter what you ask, how stupoid a question you throw, or no matter how trivial matters it may be.  This time Mozilla being the sponsor of Barcamp, the food has gone much much better than BcB6 which i attended in April.

Missing Kushal here may be as he did always add a technical tingle to the sessions ongoing (If he attends :P)

My lappy is running on battery power and so though being provided Internet, running short of power consoles.

Will add to my Barcamp experience …….. more to come …

Writing blog after a month probably , this was due to my whole amount workloads and stretched office hrs of around 15 hrs and more. Neways suddenly saw Barcamp happening again , and where else you should be in these like events — Move to IIMB ( Venue for Barcamp Bangalore 7 ).

Greatly thrilled again in attending my 2nd Barcamp …. hopefully will be enjoying more than My first one.

Will miss Kushal Da though … as he was with me previous time. Expecting more and thrilled about tomorrow.  Will write after coming back ….

My Wireless started working again . I am really elated that though this initial kernel update( 2.6.25.10-86.fc9.i686 ) didn’t allow the wireless samely, but I thought of again enabling the livna-testing repo and whaO it worked

Hopefully any other new update of F9 kernel doesn’t take a toll on my wifi connection.

Something into web design, I am going through days with php and mysql wrapped up around /me. Totally occupied by my office hours really finding it hard to do. I have a portal to develop within next 15 days and I really don’t know how to cover it up within that.

Having my financial certification studies hand to hand ( typically disgusting and boring ). Too much stressed out as the company pays only when you complete it successfully, though I don’t like it still I have to do it.

Learning to package fedora stuffs and also trying my hands at translation.

All in all a little crunch situation

Kushal’s last day stay at Bangalore finally arrived. Never expected the day to arrive so soon. I didn’t feel like letting him go, as after a long run of 2 yrs again I catch hold of him finally at Bangalore Neways life doesn’t allow you to do the things you like and moreover its related to join a job that everyone dreams of, so Kushal is leaving by tomorrow morning’s flight to Pune. I am now at Kushal’s home, we are having a nice gossip session and tonight we are not planning to sleep, as usual. Tomorrow morning someone special is going with us to airport. Who’s the special, why is the person so special and etc etc doubts will be cleared by me in my next blog or rather forthcoming blogs

After dropping Kushal tomorrow I will update my blog, lets think what to write

A long lasting summer training till continues with kushal taking majority of classes within these 3 days.  My wireless connectivity problem till persists though I have revereted back to the previous kernel. God knows when it will be OK !!

Day 7 started with Parthan [ irc nick - techno_freak ] taking a session on wiki , its usage and charactertics. I failed to attend the session due to my Office timings but looks a good introduction to wiki, from logs of the class. After Parthan it was the turn of Kushal to continue with Vi editor but not with the basics, it was focussed on the topic ‘ctags‘ which was mentioned by mbuf, the previous day. The session helped me to clear the concepts on ctags as I tried and implemented it in some of the examples given by kushal.

Day 8 started with kushal again. ctags was a relatively new concept to atleast me and so I badly needed a session more to continue using ctags efficiently, Kushal gave a answer to the call and it was another session of ctags again on the cards. This session was good but I thought it could have been extended more At 10.30pm IST it was the time to attend a 2nd session of Kushal. This session has a strange significance, as I have attented 5 sessions of the same name ‘Introduction to python‘ earlier in my life ( The session host was also the same - Kushal Das :P  )

/me thinks Kushal loves to take ‘Introduction to python‘ session

Day 9 got me to attend a 2nd python session taken by Kushal (Thank GOD I got to attend a 2nd session on Python ). I like python but really did’nt explore it much till date, hopefully I change it and change for the better. At 10.30 pm I was eagerly waiting for the shell class to be taken by Rishi but the class was cancelled.

I have to do some certifications ( My work requirement ) and so am busy now a bit. Office hours have longed much and I really don’t like staying much time in Office but no ways other than to except that I have to STAY 

People might be thinking why these 3 days update all of a sudden. I was really busy with my office work and my internet was down for the past 4 days, which made me very irregular attendee to the summer training and most of my studies went through studying the logs after the respective classes.

Day 4 was again great (I loved the total attendee’s in the channel and the interactivity of all the students with the mentors) :)  . Shakti Kannan (irc nick - mbuf) started with the “Free Software Project Guidelines” , it was really a session where we got to learn something which we only knew on the surface level. Effective , precise and shoot are the 3 words with which you can express “mbuf” sessions. After mbuf it was the turn of Kushal to throw light on fhs, for which he has long back provided a document link through email. I coudn’t attend fhs totally as internet was down but had the doc and the logs handy with me.

Day 5 was mainly led by Rishi with his 3rd class on shell, I don’t know much about the class as I read it through logs. Though I was attending the classes my internet again let me go down in the middle and so i missed the 2nd half.  It was good but I hope the shell classes continue a bit further as in 3rd class also it was only the basics which was nurtured.

Day 6 continued with mbuf taking a session on “Code Cross Referencing Tools“. It was a session in which first time something was taught on a bit advanced level. Got to learn ctags and etags and lxr. All these things felt at first a bit hard to digest and later on referring to the links given by mbuf made it easier. Doxygen was a great tool about which I came to know, same goes with the different features of KDevelop. I loved the class and I really want to thank mbuf for the knowledge shared by him on the day.

Coming to my half I have got a problem coming up suddenly. My wireless has to stopped to work in Fedora 9 after I updated my box with the latest kernel. Don’t know what is the problem but feeling like the new kernel update of Fedora 9 is not allowing the wireless to work finely , or may be some stuff problems with the kernel module of madwifi.  Working with people at #fedora channel at irc to overcome this sudden problem.

Hope to get it repaired soon   

Sometimes can be too boring in your office premises. The Internet access is also blocked , few of the thousand sites open  :(  By studying the logs of yesterday’s session just spending some time out here , today is a low work day here at office and I am not enjoying that

Waiting for the office timings to end so that I can move home and start doing my own work. Till then reading the gcc online docs in the office, Hopes this helps me to get out of Boredom.  

Day 3 saw a great start from Shakti Kannan [ irc nick - mbuf ] with his ideas really helping to guide in building effective communication skills and learn the mailing list etiquettes. I was totally impressed by the style of his teaching and loved the session. Next at 10.30 pm IST there was a class by Prasad [ _pjp_ ] , and he really carried out the class very well by which i got to learn much about the gcc including step by step procedures followed from writing a C/C++ program to getting the output of it. I missed the 1st half of the session due to unavoidable power cut and thus was quite unlucky. From today morning I followed the irclogs to get through the gcc session and I really loved it.

Day 4 started today and I will update the blog by tomorrow with its details !!

Btw, I am happy I made my Hackergotchi , will update it by tomorrow in the blog.