Prashanth Udupa

Learnings & Experiences

  • Messenger and the Message…

    The finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. What’s the meaning of this statement? Suppose a kid comes and tells to you – “I have never seen the moon, can you show it to me.” You take the kid to the terrace of your house and point your index finger to the moon…

  • Many times we do not ask – why we do what we do

    Eight monkeys are put in a room. In the middle of the room is a ladder, leading to a bunch of bananas hanging from a hook on the ceiling. Each time a monkey tries to climb the ladder; all the monkeys are sprayed with ice water, which makes them miserable. Sooner enough, whenever a monkey…

  • Possibility of IT Returns!

    For the very first time in my life work-life have I noticed someone in my circle actually getting IT returns. I am infact supposed to get some money back from the IT department myself, however I had (until-now) given up hope on actually receiving the returns. Even after repeated follow-ups, I have until now never…

  • Cadence acquires Taray

    About a year ago I had blogged about how Taray had signed an OEM deal with Cadence. [http://prashanthudupa.livejournal.com/42294.html]. Today I find out from Ravi, VP of Taray, that Cadence has acquired Taray. Read the complete news here: http://www.cadence.com/cadence/newsroom/features/pages/feature.aspx?xml=taray How much they got acquired for is something they are not sharing as yet (or maybe never).…

  • GCFSupport Plugin for Qt SDK

    We have recently made available a GCFSupport plugin for Qt SDK 2010.02.01. “GCF 2.3.0 Plugin for Qt Creator 1.3.1 (QtSDK 2010.02.1) [Windows Only]” Using this plugin it is now possible to get started with GCF super-quickly using Qt Creator. Just unpack the ZIP file and take a look at the README.pdf file for instructions. Within…

  • Who am I ?

    I spent the most of last week @ IIT Mumbai campus. After dinner, I used to go out on walks along the lake side, foot-ball field etc… During such walks I was thinking… I have a right hand. Using it I can lift objects, place them back, write on paper with a pen, type on…

  • GCF 2.3 Released

    After a bit of a delay, today we announce the release of GCF 2.3. You can download the latest version of GCF from our website. The main new feature in this release is the GCF – Qt Creator integration. With this plugin developers can now use Qt Creator to ease their GCF application development. In…

  • Custom Class wizards in Qt Creator

    [Update – 25th April 2011: Qt Creator 2.0+ has a much better support for custom class and/or project wizards here: http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtcreator-snapshot/creator-project-wizards.html] Qt Creator comes built in with a set of project/class/file wizards. These wizards are great to get started with, but I always wished if there were an easy way to add support for more…

  • Expand Declarations in Qt Creator

    One of the things I dont particularly enjoy is to transfer functions from .h (declaration) to .cpp (implementation), specifying the class scope and then creating open and close brackets. The whole process consumes time and I always thought that it can be automated quite easily in Qt Creator. Just wrote a plugin for Qt Creator…

  • SELP Starts Tomorrow

    My wife and I are starting our Landmark SELP program from tomorrow. I am going with no expectations as such, fully open to take whatever education SELP has in store.

  • Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth

    Of late I am seeking inspirational books, lectures, Internet articles. After the Landmark Forum and Advanced Course, I have begun to feel that there is more to mind than begin a memory bank of knowledge and concepts. I am seeking books, lectures and Internet articles in an attempt to understand more about the mind. That’s when I…

  • I love my wife..

    Whenever I attended someones marriage or heard someone talk about marriage, I always (over)heard people talk about marriage something like this – “After marriage, life goes down the hill. Sure life’s great for the first couple of months, but then it becomes too restrictive. Too much burden, too many responsibilities…” So naturally I started to…

  • Very inspiring stuff..

    LittleDog robot at USC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYo9Whssla8).

  • FOSS.IN 2009 – Talks/Sessions of my interest

    FOSSEE Workout – Making Scientific Computing Python better! Introduction to Maemo5 as a Development Enviroment Howto make WebKit faster OpenGL ES Application Development on OMAP3530 with Beagleboard And of-course the time inbetween talks/sessions where I get to meet incredibly talented folks from the community. PS: My talk on “Writing Qt Creator Plugins” would be on…

  • VTK Designer has better DICOM imaging support

    We have been working on improving medical imaging support in VTK Designer for quite sometime. However, due to heavy workload in other products and projects; this one took a back seat. Up-until now users could select DICOM image set and do a surface render. But now; over and above this we also support something called…