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Paris part 2!

Wednesday, December 28th, 2011

It’s 4 months in Paris!

I am liking this place very much.

Well some things are still new to get use to specially weather its so cold that sometimes I think refrigerate is better to place to stay in . but sun rise and set has still it’s own story rises after 8 am and sets around 5- 5:30 pm so you left home in the night(dark) and reach home in the night(dark) only, no sun at all and this makes me very lazy sometimes.

But the good part is learning new stuff making new friends, well not many till now two very good friends Lucinda and Benjamin. (I will introduce them in next post)

Travelling! I have a lots of plan to travel around the France and Europe, but till now just visited one place in the south of France i.e Grenoble.

Also brought the 1st camera of my life here in Paris Fuji FinePix S4000 (Well after using friends 550D now I want new cam ). you can see the pics on flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/thezeroth

Studies! well this is the main (or use as a excuse ) to come to Paris. it’s also going good, apart from the French language (which I am improving ) everything else is really cool I like practical approach for studies/teaching here.

well that’s the story till now in Paris.

Cheers!

Sacré-Cœur

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thezeroth/6588103481/in/photostream

Tags: Events, Friends, Life, Paris
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Paris !

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Bonjour!
Well I left India for the 1st Time in my life and here is what I observed about this Beautiful place Paris!

Some funny but interesting stuff.

You go anywhere in Paris like Mall, Shop, Bar, Hotel/Restaurant you look at someone they will definitely greet you they will at least say Bonjour!.

I got a chance to visit a small road-side bar, the owner of the bar will go personally to each and every person and greet them and ask ça-va? (How are you? in French). Its not so common in India where I stay people sometimes people will not even smile to you.

Then I went to another road-side bar which is bit modern and lots of youth were there. the bar was handled by a young women single handedly quite amazing in India on roadside Bar (well very few I think) normally you won’t find a women at all!

One very totally different experience was when I was crossing a road one Bus was taking a turn so stop for bus to go, but bus driver stop and told me you 1st Mr. , well the people who has been to India or who are in India knows why this is different and amazing.

well last but funny for me sun rise at 7am and sets at 8 – 8:30 pm

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Good News About KDE!!

Friday, December 31st, 2010

In my last post I mention about the disappointment I got because of No KDE day at Foss.in/2010.

But here’s the GOOD NEWS instead of KDE day we all (Kde developer’s team Kde India ) decided to have a KDE conference in India hurry!! .

Photo credit Dinesh Sai

So we have First Ever KDE conference in India details are as follow:

Website : http://conf.kde.in

When: 9 – 13 March.

Where : R V College Of Engineering,
R V Vidyanikethan Post,
Mysore Road,
Bengaluru – 560004,
Karnataka, India

So lock your calendars, apply for leaves and get prepare for the event!

All are welcome from newbies to Old contributors.

See you there Enjoy .

Tags: kate, kde, kdeindia, qt
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My first Open-Source conference Presentation

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

I attend India’s Biggest Open-Source conference FOSS.IN from 2007, and in 2009, in the same conference, I started contributing to KDE/Kate project.

I wrote Tabify plugin for Kate editor and also submitted a few patches to kate and KDE. Then I got lazy and didn’t do much significant contributions.

And again the Foss.in season arrived and I thought why not give a talk on Kate plugin in Foss.in KDE day. There are not much Kate contributors in India and I can share what I learnt and we can get more contributors in Kate too. That seemed to be an inspiring idea.

But I got disappointed since this year KDE day’s plan was dropped and I decided to drop my plan as well!! But thanks to people at my office ( VCL team ) for forcing me to do the presentation and finally I applied for the talk.

Eventually my talk got selected and I became a speaker at Foss.in. On 16th Dec 2010 at 11 am I gave my talk on “Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate”.

Here is the presentation.

Writing plugins for Kate and enhancing Kate

Tags: conference, foss, kate, kde, opensource, presentation, talks
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Firefox to Internet Explorer ;)

Monday, October 18th, 2010

Dear Internet Explorer,
People use you only to download me.

Yours truly,

Firefox

*courtesy: Poonam #FB

Tags: foss, geek, kde
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I am attending are you ??

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

See you there ..

Tags: foss, opensource, programming, python
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Process state check using bash script

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

After a long time .
well recently I came across a situation where my server application use to crash randomly, so to keep it alive all the time I wrote a small bash scrip, well I know, I have to check my Server application code and fix it but that was the demo time so 1st make it work as it is then we will fix the corner cases .

but bash script was a fun..

This is how my script looks

#!/bin/sh

while true; do

# If process is not running we will get only 1 else 1 + number of instances check=`ps ax| grep -c TCPServer` if [ "$check" -lt 2 ]; then

echo "not running" # Start the server again cd ~/TCPServer/ ./TCPServer > /dev/null 2>&1 & elseecho "running"

fi

sleep 1m

done

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