Another week is already gone, and although it didn't see much progress feature wise, I've been working a lot on the project. Three days were spent on a nasty little hard to produce bug, one that would only occur 4 levels deep into the Content Directory, and not always in that case either. Finally with a lot of debug statements, many hours talking to Tuomo Penttinen of HUpnp we fixed a little bug in his library.…

(This post was published on Friday, but I put in a wrong tag and I didn't get aggregated, so, republished) Although I've been hacking on my GSoC project for quite a while, doing little experiments and getting my mind around various factors involved, this week was my first official coding period, since that was what I had in my timeline. The first piece to implement is the kioslave to browse UPnP MediaServers.…

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It's been a week since the summer holidays, and that means another semester is behind me. Reflecting on the past two years of engineering, I would say that this semester has been the best 6 months of my life ever. I have changed (read: improved) in a hell of a lot of ways. I also dumped some of my inclination to always plan out the day and introduced some spontaniety.…

Well after all the micro-blogging at night and the IRC chat, and writing an exam, here is a really good post! The proposal is Amarok and KDE UPnP Integration. I'll be working with mentor Bart Cerneels. This news was awesome! Last year I didn't get in for kwin-tiling, but I participated in Season of KDE and did a few other contributions all year and it paid off. This year I started of quite early and worked hard on the proposal.…

I'm glad to announce that yesterday the kwin-tiling branch was merged into kwin trunk by commit 1118677!. It will be available in KDE SC 4.5. Please keep in mind that it is an experimental feature with rough edges. Bug fixes are already on the way, but some things, like session saving and so on are absent. Please do add feature requests and bugs to the KDE bug tracker. This screencast should show off a few things.…

(Aside: Yes this is a post after a zillion years, but I have a few more lined up, and waiting for some important stuff in about a week) Redis is a wicked cool NoSQL database, in that storing stuff is not the only thing that it does. Mathias Meyer already has a collection of Redis use cases, but this great idea is mine. Like all good ideas it emerged in the shower :) ( I was not aware of Pieter Noordhuis' MUC when I did this, in either case mine deals with one-to-one IM )…

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A few years down the line, we will have little devices stuck on your cheeks monitoring facial expressions. And then they will tweet "nikhil is #laughing", "nikhil is #sad" and perhaps even "nikhil got #slapped" - The cult of microblogging...…

Twitter usually syncs with the (developed) world pretty fast in hashtags. But I'm surprised Copenhagen is not on it. To add some semblance of code: I've been mucking with node.js and some of the effect is simple TagLib bindings with that being used for something more important soon. Much improved ( or rather simplified ) kwin-tiling too with a few regressions like moving and resizing. …