That’s right. This year, IIT Kanpur’s techfest, Techkriti, is going to host FOSSKriti — our very own F/OSS mini-conference. We’re having talks, BoF sessions, workshops and maybe a hackfest or two. It is going to be legendary! More updates in the days to come. Nirbheek and I are going to be trying to arrange a [...]
After a look at this blog entry and some gentle prodding from Mikkel, I decided to actually get down to updating the Xesam adaptor to the latest spec. With that done, and a little cheating (i.e. not really doing any parsing on the userQuery), Mikkel’s simple-ui and xesam-adaptor now talk to each other. Whoopee! There’s [...]
Is no news really good news? :-) Well, I’ve got some code up and running. It doesn’t install anywhere yet, but does talk Xesam in it’s own limited and special way. The parser is possibly not too efficient, and definitely has trouble parsing more complex queries (ones with multiple or data elements). You can find [...]
Exam done. Got cracking on the code today. Slow start, but some progress made. I’ve now got the skeleton code to hook up to DBus and listen for messages. You can even connect to my tool using the Xesam NewSession method, but that’s about it. I’ve started out with GetProperty, but came upon an interesting [...]
I’d mentioned that I’d be participating in the the Google Summer of Code programme this year. More details ensue … I will be working on Beagle, an uber-cool desktop search tool. The idea behind such a tool is that most of us today work with a massive amount of diverse information everyday. Often we find [...]
Alas, Kurt Vonnegut is no more. Time I read Slaughterhouse 5. Currently on Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Time, it is short, as the semester end nears. And it appears that I will be busy this summer. Not much else that is spectacularly worthy of reporting. Now to read about routing protocols in mobile, wireless, [...]
