Category: Technical

Prof. M. B. Patil of IIT Bombay has been conducting workshops on SequelGUI at several engineering colleges and universities over the past few months. SequelGUI is a product that we developed for IIT Bombay using GCF. It is basically a visualization front-end for their Sequel circuit solver. More info can be found here. Its exciting…

I have the following so far hmmmm.. I think it looks ok..

After several months of educating people that Menu Strip is not RIBBON, I have realized that most people do make that association unconsciously. To avoid any confusion, we have decided to pull the plug on the menu-strip. From the next version of GCF (and VTK Designer); you wont find the menu-strip anymore. Good old toolbar…

In this blog I want to explain how the Software Updater module works in GCF. Towards this I have written a example program – “A simple browser”. The simple browser program provides a main-window with a address-bar (QLineEdit), where you can type a URL and the QWebView below shows the corresponding page. When the simple…

GCF is a application development framework for building large applications. Most real world apps out there automatically update themseleves whenever a new version is released by their vendor. We did not want apps developed using GCF to lag behind in this, so since early February this year, we have been working on a new module…

I was always a movie addict. I always wanted to have a proper home theatre, as in a PVR like theatre at home! About 4 months ago we bought a Sony DVD Player + 5.1 Channel Speakers. To be more precise, we bought this for our home. I got the system fit into my living…

It has been 51 days since VTK Designer 2.7 was out (on 23rd Feb). We have had close to 1000 downloads (binary, source and pdf put together) since then! In the same period the new version of GCF got 360 hits. We know of quite a few open-source project groups that are using GCF directly…

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menger_sponge

I am teaching a course on OpenGL programming to Computer Science Engineering students in VTU, through its EDUSAT program. In my next class I am supposed to teach rendering of fractal images/models in OpenGL. While preparing for the class, I was intruigued by Sierpinski triangle and pyramid. After writing the OpenGL code for my class,…

I particularly like one response from Obama…. MR. OBAMA: Well, and part of what happened over the last 15, 20 years is that so much money was made in finance that about 40 percent, I think, of our overall growth, our overall economic growth was in the financial sector. Well, now what we’re finding out…

The last versionof VTK Designer was out on 23rd of Feb. It is a little more than a week since the last release was out and we have had 141 (124 from SourceForge, and 17 from our own website when the files were still available there) downloads. This number includes binary, documentation and source. Considering…

I am personally very happy about this year’s Filmfare winners. It is refreshing to see the awards not going to the default ones. My wife and I decided to not follow the proceedings as soon as we saw that SRK was nominated for Rab Ne. I had watched the film during its first week itself,…

Read more about this here: http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Coming_Mobile_Number_Portability/551-84416-613.html The moment this is implemented, I am most surely going to change from AirTel to BSNL. The only reason I am not moving away from AirTel right now is because it is a pain to inform everybody about the new number. Mobile-Numbers are right now used as vendor-lock-in mechanisms…