CSEA Inaugural Function...

Yesterday 25.06.2007, we had our Computer Science and Engg Association(CSEA)inaugural function for the academic year 2007-08 presided by our faculty advisor Mr.M.ShivaKumar and with very special Chief Guest Mr.V.RamPrakash, MD, Industrial Electronics. The chief guest is an alumnus of our college and had a great experience in the field of electronics. He delivered a motivating speech and loaded lot of ideas about the current industrial world.
Me and SaiKrishna were officially announced as the GeneralSecretaries of our association(CSEA) and Kokila and SasiSidarth as the JointSecretaries.

"TCENet " - The Most Innovative Project

TCENet,our college intranet portal, got the most innovative IT project award for the year 2007 by the PCQuest, a IT Magazine.
TCENet hits almost all the local news papers. An article about TCENet in The Hindu
I personally feel happy as i am also working in the TCENet team.
This is our TCENet ..

From TCE to TCS...!!!

There were many golden moments for me in TCE. Last week I got another chance to cheer. I got placed in Tata Consultancy Services. I started the Placement training with an unfortune. Got 6th semester results with one mark needed for the next higher grade in 4 out of 6 subjects. Disappointed with the results and my confidence level was also very low at that time. Thanks to my seniors Subramani( special thanks man), Praveen, Senthil who encouraged me a lot during mock interviews. I really worked hard then and acquired TCS:-) . My friends also got good placements. Karthikeyan, Annamalai, Ashok and some others placed in TCS and Vins, ArunPrasaath and others got placed in CTS. We started our placements season with a success and hope this will continue in the coming days also.

My 6th sem at Dusk!!!

Finally i have come to an end of an another edition of my engineering course, my sixth semester working days are over and i have to complete my sem formalities, the final exams:) . This semester brought many things to cheer and few moments to tear.Lot of things started, learnt technically something, disappointed with few failures. This is the first sem i faced few misunderstandings with my friends, some problems from an unknown person, heard some emotional stories among my friends and a lot to remember. Some of the things which left its print in my heart are

* Attended FOSS2007 , a festival on Free and Open Source Software tools in my college
* Participated in Interface07 online events
* Won 3rd prize in GNU/LINUX programming contest in my college
* Attended Plaisir07,an intra dept culturals.Our class team is the overall champion
* Finished 3rd in Poetry writting in Plaisir07
* Got 2nd prize in skit in Plaisir07
* http://alumni.tce.edu released
* Registered for RedHatChallenge competitions with Vins and Balachandran
* My friend's marriage
* Enjoyed Sugirtham07, our hostel day
* I saw my friend crying like a child for his love.. infact i too disappointed after hearing that he had sacrificed many things even his rights as an co-worker for his love
* I was really irritated by a person sending rubbish mails..yet to find his face
* Heard emotional stories among friends and i really felt happy to have such caring persons with me..hope my friendship with such persons come for ever
* My attendance hangs around 75% and i atteneded all the classes on the last working day :-)

DTrace..!!!

As I mentioned earlier I started working in OpenSolaris10..It really rocks like anything..The GUI is amazing and it looks cool..Last week i spent more time with my solaris box trying to learn the things..First i thought of installing GCC and othe GNU tools from outside..Then only i found all those things are available in /usr/sfw/ itself and we need to set path or just copy paste it in /usr/bin and will be fine ..I am compiling in GCC now..The most powerful tool in the world DTrace, anyone can accept this if they started working on it..I spent few days on it and learnt the basics(still need to know many)..It needs more practice to get familiar with and i am working with little action scripts now..it rockzzz.. it will give more knowledge on OS if we practise it properly..Before ending this post i wish to say u "IF U WANT TO KNOW MORE ON OPERATING SYSTEMS, DONT STICK TO UR SYLLABUS ALONE, START WORKING WITH DTRACE"..meet u with my next "Drop!!"..bye

TCE Alumni Portal...

Finally the portal designed by me with my friend is launched to public access today. It is designed using Drupal. In that portal, we have facilities for mailing, groups, forum discussions and blogs for every registered user. I hope the portal will surely make alumni to participate in all college events like placement recruitments, alumni meets,etc.,The link of the portal
http://alumni.tce.edu

finally my prob solved..!!!

In my box i installed OpenSolaris in one hard disk(hd0) and the windows in in another disk(hd1)..
I found difficult in accessing both operating systems from the same grub..Finally i found a solution for this using the grub function map( )
grub> map (hd0,hd1)
grub> map (hd1,hd0)
The map option makes virtual swap between the disks and both the hd0 and hd1 appears virtually as the first disk. Now i can easily enter my windows from the grub without changing the disk every time as i did before..Now i can work in unix environment and see films in windowsXP(what else can we do with windows:-)) without much efforts..meet you with my next "Drop"..bye

FOSS tools-makes programming simple..!!!

Last week i got an opportunity to attend a seminar on FOSS debugging tools by Mr.AnanthShrinivas, an alumnus of our college working in Sun Microsystems.The session was very informative and he showed the demonstration on various debugging tools like GDB-the GNU project debugger, Valgrind, ltrace, mtrace..All the tools are cool to work with. I worked with GDB before the session when my friend introduced it.This session added extra ideas about GDB..The valgrid demonstration was interesting as it pointed errors with memory management in the program with error line numbers.very cool tool..Next i attended a seminar on DBMS and Internet programming tools by Mr.Senthilkumaran,SpikeSource India Limited..He covered various FOSS DBMS tools like MySQL,PostgresSQL,small foot-print databases like SQLite and some informations on the products of SpikeSource..These sessions introduced some interesting tools and i need to work more on it..