I first saw DH2 on Friday night, and my thoughts after watching it were: On Wednesday night I saw it again, determined to find out why I disliked it so much, and whether I was just being too hard on it. Interestingly, most Potter fans seem to have liked it this time, which was not the case before. Mike Patterson though has this interesting writeup pointing out in very specific instances why the movie was bad.…

Its been two days of Google+ and enough articles to fill a couple of books, so I'm not going to say anything about what I think of it and all that. But a couple of friends have been wondering how to do something like the Wall in Google+. The fine granularity of sharing means that you can directly use your Stream as a wall in G+ which is very convenient.…

It’s been a month now since the semester is over, but when you are sitting in California, and visiting amazing places on weekends, writing blog posts isn’t the highest priority :) But the 6th semester deserves 10 blog posts and atleast one is mandated. 6 not only had a personal highs, but in general wrought a lot of changes. I’ve begun taking a lot of pictures this semester. I always thought it was stupid of people to shoot images like crazy, but it turns out that photos are a very good way to trigger memories about past events.…

DA-IICT 3rd year students usually do an internship in the summer. Good industrial internships are always hard to come by, although the situation is way better in IT than in other, more resource-intensive disciplines. 10 interviews, a hundred or so e-mails and lots of forms later this is part guide, part my internship search story. The first thing you’ve to decide is what kind of company you want to intern at.…

Someone who found my code interesting, can use it as a launchpad and take it ahead!…

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Summer is here, and Google Summer of Code is on its way. The biggest hurdle new contributors often face (after compiling trunk ;)) is to get their head around the project they would like to work on, understanding how it works, where the parts fit in, and how to fix bugs or make improvements. Speaking from my experience, it took me the better part of a month to understand how KWin worked before I could actually hack on it for Season on KDE.…

conf.kde.in is happening in Bangalore from 9th-13th March. This is a golden opportunity for students to have fun and learn some really interesting things that no college or class can teach. It is also a chance to form friendships that last forever. If you don’t like long posts: here is the gist. Short term benefits – a great time and a cool t-shirt. Long term benefits – create something awesome, lots of friends and an impressive CV that recruiters will notice.…

Qt is a great GUI toolkit, but it is also an entire C++ standard library waiting to be used for other tasks. In addition the network module is really powerful. I’ve been playing around with node.js for a while now, and realized that Qt’s default asynchronous nature maps over perfectly to create a event-based web server. To make things better, Ryan Dahl’s small and fast http-parser is freely available. So I just combined the two, and here is QHttpServer.…

The first ever KDE conference in India takes place this March. On March 9th, 2011, gearheads will descend to the RV College of Engineering for conf.kde.in. If you are interested in using or contributing to KDE, we look forward to meeting you there. There have been KDE contributors in India since the late 90s, but in recent years we have reached a more sizeable number. Contributors usually hang out on #kde-in, the KDE India IRC channel.…