CDAC experience

We do a lot of work in localization – especially for Gujarati language. We met Mahesh Kulkarni of CDAC Pune yesterday. We have met many other people in public sector and government over the last 3 years about Utkarsh and GujaratiLexicon. We have always got many hurdles. People have always spoken a lot about it, […]

Comments before code

I used a very interesting technique in my college exams. I knew how long an answer should be for 10 marks (or whatever). After I got the question paper, I would decide which questions I will answer. Then take the answer sheet and start writing down the headings for each answer – leaving enough gap […]

Trouble with servers

We have a few dedicated servers with EV1. It’s been good so far, but we faced just too many problems in the last month. So much that we are thinking of dumping them. We detected bad sectors on one server’s harddisk. Since we had a backup harddisk on the server, we asked the server guys […]

Foss.In 2006

foss.in/2006 is around the corner. It happens in Bangalore on 24th, 25th and 26th November. And looking at how it was last year, I am expecting a lot of excitement and happenings this year. I am thinking various things for the event: Talking about how to become an effective programmer Actually how about a track […]

LB : Network Strength Detector

Here’s a new Logic Builder: Display an image with 4 bars. The more the bars, the better the network signal strength. Next to it will be a text box. Values for the current network signal strength will be provided as percentages in this text box. Multiple values will be separated by a new line. Using […]