Talk @ LBS College of Engineering, Kasaragod, Kerala November 5, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in Sun CA.Tags: Java, lbs college of engineering, NetBeans, osum, talk, workshop
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I visited LBS College of Engineering, Kasaragod for a workshop organised by thier collegeOSUM Club. This was my first workshop outside NITK. They had suspended the classes for the afternoon so that most of them could attend the workshop. And its really great that the college is supporting them for the OSUM club as college’s support is of prime importance for the growth of the club.
They had booked the seminar hall from 1:30 till 4:00. It takes about 2 and half hours to travel from my college to Kasaragod. I was accompanied by my friend Manjunath. We left at 10:00 and reached Kasargod by 12:30 in the afternoon. We were received by Allan and his group members. They took us in their car for lunch and then from there we were driven to their college. I ate as much less as possible as I had to feel comformtable while giving the talk. Their college was on top of a small hill. The seminar hall was full by the time we reached the venue and we were in time unlike other speakers who most of the time reach the venue late. The seminar hall was packed and i guess some 150+ students attended the workshop.
We were introduced as the chief guests by one of their club members. The talk was also attend by their faculty co-ordinator. I had prepared on a higher concepts in Java- Strings, File I/O, Serialization, Multithreading, Graphics, Event Handling, Swing. I gave a brief overview of each of them and also wrote some simple programs using the Netbeans IDE. I extensively used the white board to explain different concepts. I gave them a brief overview of OOPS concepts as they were familiar with OOPS, i did not spend much time there. Also I had few goodies to give away for which I asked questions during my presentation. I felt the auidence was shy to answer 
may be because they were not familiar with the speaker 
I also carried few Netbeans 6.5 discs and OpenSolaris discs to distribute to the club members. This presentation was totally unlike my usual presentation. This time I was slow, interacting with the audience, cracking PJs between .
The OSUM Club had made perfect arrangements and the event went on really well. This was their first OSUM club event and there were a lot of expectations from me and I feel i did my job to the best possible extent. Hope this event will attract more students to be a part of the club.
Looking forward to visiting more colleges for presentations
I will upload the photos and share the link soon!
100 cool startups you got to know @ StartUp City June 5, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General, News.Tags: conference, siliconindia, startupcity
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Just wanted to let you know about an exciting event siliconindia is organizing on June 6th (Saturday in Bangalore). There will be 100 most promising technology startups showcasing their products. I had been to the event last year and found it interesting.
Please be sure to visit the event website here.
Workshops @ The Great Indian Developer Summit-2009 April 25, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General.Tags: dsl, gids, gids 2009, great indian developer summit, JRuby, workshops
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Great Indian Developer Summit- 2009, Day-4. GIDS.Workshops:
DSL workshop by Venkat
This was the last day of the Great Indian Developer Summit-2009. There were 15 workshops running in parallel at 4 different halls. Workshops covered areas like JRuby, DSLs, Silverlight, Oslo, .Net, Hibernate, Adone Flash platform, COBOL among others. The first workshop I attended was “Developing external DSLs in Java” and was taken by Venkat Subramaniam who is regarded as the languages geek. He spoke about the need for Domain Specific Languages(DSL), different types of DSLs which include Internal DSL and External DSL. He told that internal DSLs can be created by using languages like Groovy, Ruby among others and External DSLs can be created using languages with higher parsing abilities like Java, C++, C#. Internal DSLs are also called as embedded DSL. He aslo threw some light on EasyB which is basically a behavior oriented design tool. He spoke at lenght on how to use Java to create external DSL using xText and Eclipse. He later gave a demo on using xText and created a game DSL. Sadly i couldn’t work it out on my comp as I did not have xText plugin installed in Eclipse.
Shell script for clearing the Trash April 25, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in Ubuntu.Tags: clearing trash, shell script, trash, Ubuntu
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I was facing a problem while clearing the Trash in Ubuntu. I wasn’t able to delete certaion folder and i got the message stating “Access Denied”. So i was wondering that there should be some way to do it from the command prompt using sudo and some command. I did a google for the requirement and found the following shell snippet:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/
Source: Ubuntu Forum.
The Great Indian Developer Summit-2009, My Day-2, GIDS.Java April 24, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General.Tags: gids, gids 2009, GIDS.Java, great indian developer summit, groovy, Java, JRuby
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Ola Bina during JRuby talk
I started off pretty late for my Day-2 (summit’s Day-3) at the summit, courtesy- extended sleeping But I somehow managed to not miss much of the first session. The first session I attended today was “Introduction to JRuby” which was delivered by Ola Bini. He spoke about Ruby and its features like Blocks, Modules, Mixins among others. He then spoke about JRuby and how it eliminates the pain of using Java and leverages on the ease of Ruby. JRuby is basically Ruby running on JVM. This was developed keeping in mind the old legacy JavaEE based applications.
Great Indian Developer Summit-2009, My Day-1 April 23, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General.Tags: day-1, gids, gids 2009, great indian developer summit, RichWeb
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I had attended the Great Indian Developer Summit 2008 which was held from May 19-25. I got a pass using which i attended Bleeding edge .NET and RichWeb though i had very very less experience on .NET. It was truly an amazing experience. And now here I am in Great Indian Developer Summit 2009. But this time i had to fund the expenses myself. I chose to attend RichWeb, Daring java and the Workshop sessions. Unlike last year each technology was covered only for a day and also the cost of registration decreased. The day’s proceeding were to start at 10:00 which included the registration, Welcome key note among others. Incidentally it happened to be poll time for B’loreans and after i finished my mandatory work of voting i rushed to the Auditorium in IISc where the summit was to be held.
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IPL 2009 Inaugural Day Updates (April 18) April 19, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in IPL.Tags: Bangalore Royal Challengers, Chennai Super Kings, Cricket, IPL, IPL 2009, Mumbai Indians, Rajasthan Royals, Twenty20
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IPL is back after a year! One year has passed so quickly, the Rajasthan Royals final match is still fresh in my mind 
This time IPL is being held out of India- Indian Premium League in South Africa 
Its was a day of upsets everywhere, a day of upset for me either- tough SE Exam paper 
The Inaugural match between Mumbai Indians(MI) and Chennai Super Kings(CSK) was at some point interesting but then MI comfortably won the match (looks comfortable for ppl watchin on TV, may not be for the players ) The main take aways from that match was- Tendulkar continuing his New Zealand form started off IPL in stlye with a 50 , Nayar smashed 3 sixes in Flintoff’s over (hope he sleeps peacefully tonight and those sixes don’t haunt him ). Malinga fierce with the ball- he is fiercefull without the ball either. And and any other key MI performances- I cant recall. Coming to CSK they had very little to cheer about- Gony took few wickets, Dhoni hit few runs ( Gony and Dhoni are so rhyming), so did Hayden. In the end wat matters is the winner and its MI (not Mission Impossible )
Setting JAVA_HOME in Ubuntu April 2, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in Ubuntu.Tags: Java, java path, Open Source, Ubuntu
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I had spent a lot of time setting the $PATH on my Ubuntu but i forgot to document the procedure. So when my friend asked me, i wasn’t able to help him out. So this time i asked him to tell the solution so that i could note it down. The best place would be my blog.
JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin export PATH
Source: The Ubuntu Guy.
Let Me Know now on Twitter March 22, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General.Tags: let me know, twitter
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Hello friends,
Let Me Know
Here’s a good news for all the twitters out there- Let Me Know- the one and only information portal is now on twitter, making it more reachable. So why waste time quickly follow Let Me Know at Let Me Know Update.
Recap 2008!!!- A faint recap of events ;) January 10, 2009
Posted by Mohamed Sanaulla in General, NITK, Viewpoint.Tags: 2008, letmeknow, recap, sun microsystems
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This has been arguably my worst year so far! Though my memory is not that lasting and its not that volatile either. I have made all my efforts to write down things/events happened last year.
1. Joining Let Me Know [www.letmeknow.in]: I joined Let Me Know team at the end of 2008 and my contribution to the team started mainly from January 2008 and have been a part of the team for over an year now. We have made a lot of progress over an year- with a wide base of readers and over 600 opportunities spanning 7 different areas. We moved from this (blog) to this (now both redirect to the same new portal). Initially i was covering all the events but later February-march we got a pretty good team and my area of focus reduced to Technical Fest!! But later on after the month of May the blog was left to the responsiblity of few and the work during that time increased and also the flow of information reduced. We took a major step of having our own portal and this was all the brainchild of Nitin Rao, the Founder of Let Me Know. He spoke with lot of ppl including Web Developers, speaking to various ppl on Fund Raising and at last we hired Grayscale Design- The most creative technical students i have met. They designed the complete portal from scratch and achieved to our expectation both in terms of the functional requirements and the site asthetics. I feel the current Let Me Know site is the most easy to use site i have ever seen!!! We have few plans at the back of our mind and Nitin has been a great source of inspiration for me and my work!
