Learnings & Experiences

BRIEFING NOTE ON THE IMPACT OF SOFTWARE PATENTS ON THE SOFTWARE INDUSTRY IN INDIA– by LAWRENCE LIANG, ANURANJAN SETHI and PRASHANTH IYENGAR http://www.sarai.net/research/knowledge-culture/critical-public-legal-resources/whysoftwarepatentsareharmful.pdf (Thanks to venki for bringing this to everybody’s attention in planet.foss.in).

I read this article today: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/JEE_fails_to_get_the_best_IIT_dons/articleshow/3307741.cms. Atleast some IIT profs seem to think that the whole thing needs to be revamped. “I am looking for students with raw intelligence and not those with a mind prepared by coaching class tutors. The coaching classes only help students in mastering (question paper) pattern recognizing skills. With this,…

The last date to file your income-tax return is just three days away. But if you are a salaried individual and can’t file your return by July 31, don’t worry. Because you still have a little less than two years — till March 31, 2010 — to do that. Read more here: http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14725159

UGC has listed out a bunch of names of management universities that are “fake”: http://www.ugc.ac.in/inside/fakealerts.html. It is not surprising to see IIPM’s name in that list. “Indian Institute of Planning & Management(IIPM),133/4,Qutab Enclave,Phase-II, New Delhi � 110 016.” I always had a feeling that IIPM was all about Times Of India ads, and Arindham Chowdhary…

Over the past year and a half we have been working with the EE department of IIT Bombay in creating a easy to use GUI for their Sequel circuit simulator. I have had an opportunity to work with Prof. Patil and Prof. Chandolkar of EE Department IIT Bombay. One of the things anyone will notice…

I got my VISA to travel to Belgium for Akademy. That was the last of the hurdles to clear for making the trip happen. With that out of the way, I am now 100% sure that I will be flying to Belgium for attending Akademy 🙂

http://dobbscodetalk.com/index.php?option=com_myblog&show=So-You-Want-To-Be-A-Programmer-.html&Itemid=29 I thought that this was a very interesting article. +20Million to this point “I often get personally asked, and see the question come up online a lot, what courses a person should take in college if they want to become a professional programmer. I took a fairly broad range of classes in college (Caltech),…

I got my new Dell Laptop today. It is an absolute treat. Some powerhouse laptop it is… 15in Widescreen Truelife LCD, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD, Core Duo Intel Processor, NVIDIA 8600 MGT, Integrated WebCam, WiFi, Bluetooth headphones, noise cancellation earphones, Vista Home Premium…. good value for money.

Got my tickets booked to Belgium, booked my stay, got the conference invite.. next step: apply for VISA. I have also placed an order for Dell XPS 1530. It should arrive anytime next week. I was thinking of buying it for quite sometime, felt that I needed a better laptop for this year. Last week…

Akademy 2008 Conference Program: http://akademy.kde.org/conference/program.php My talk is on the second day :-). I am marking talks that I am very interested in attending. So far I have marked the following talks: KDE Community websites: The past, the present and a vision for the future KDE And Asia – The Divide : Technical or/and Cultural:…

I am now officially engaged to Nandini. She is an MCA from JNNCE, the same college that I graduated from. Currently she is working for SAP Labs. Yeah she is a developer too 🙂 After a long weekend of celebrations and meeting the folks, am now back to work.

Preperations for Akademy 2008 is going good.. My presentation is more or less ready.. I am practicing to make sure that the talk+demo takes just about 25 minutes of time. Am trying to learn as much as possible about KParts to ensure that I can take questions on GCF/KParts comparison. I just received an email…

Since we had a good financial time this year (Q1 revenue of this year is equal to the revenue of the whole of last year), we treated ourselves with a nice entertainment setup. We bought “Table Tennis”. Shown below are some pics of us playing TT For fun, we also have a rule. The loser…

I am super thrilled about Cornelius’s email to me today. My talk on “Generic Component Framework – A Qt based component framework” has been accepted. I am off to Belgium between August 9 and 15 for this 🙂 Meanwhile, we are in the process of finishing up a really interesting and profitable deal. I am…