When I was in college, I envy Google Summer of Code for being only open to university students. Maybe it might have indirectly influenced me to get into the university ;). Anyway I ended my envy later by participating in GSOC. If you are also a college/high school student under 18 years and have such […]
Yesterday along with its feature rich 2.2 release, SilverStripe has officially released the 3 modules I worked in the GSOC. This is a great achievement for me than successfully completing GSOC project itself. It’s a great pleasure to see people around the globe consuming the my code to get the things done.
The 3 modules […]
I released a new widget for SilverStripe CMS, which allows you to show your Twitter status in your SilverStripe based blogs. More Info and Instructions for usage.
There will be more interesting stuff coming up for SilverStripe along with the 2.2 release. With the new version SilverStripe further simplifies your effort in building and managing […]
GSOC 2007 finally came to an end on last 20th, providing loads of experience and lots of other good things to take with us. It helps to create passion for Open Source software among students, by providing an opportunity to work with more than 100 OSS projects in their summer holidays. Even it implies as […]
Jonathan Schwartz has announced that SUN microsystems is going to change their stock trading symbol from SUNW to JAVA. This move gives an implicit meaning that the Java technology is going to be traded and people would be fooled to believe they are going to own the shares of JAVA technology not SUN microsystems. One […]
Founders of Silverstripe, Sigurd Magnusson and Sam Minnee was recently invited to do a Tech Talk at Google. Watch their talk about New Zealand, starring in Lord of the Rings, how they destroyed the ring and Summer of Code.
SHAMELESS NOTE : Watch around 27th minute to see Sigurd presenting the work I’ve done with GSOC.
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First of all, I beg your pardon for not updating you with my summer of code experiences as I promised. Once I get busy with coding I tend to forget all other essential stuff which needs to go along with hacking. Yeah I know that’s not a good practice as a FOSS developer and trying […]
Today is a one of the greatest days in my life, as I got accepted to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2007. It’s a dream coming true for me and looking forward to have some great experiences with it.
Google Summer of Code, is a program organized by Google for University Students. Where they have to […]
As most of you may aware (or not) Google Summer of Code for 2007 has been announced. This year I’m eager to apply for a project, eventhough I’m not sure whetehr I will get accepted. Anyway project ideas of accepted mentoring organizations will be released only on 14th March and student application period will be […]
Here is the list of tools I use for my day to day activities.
Machine : Compaq Presario v3000
OS : Ubuntu 6.10 (Primary OS), Windows XP Media Center (OEM version, keeping it for testing)
Editor : Scribes (It’s becoming the TextMate for GNU ! awesome editor)
Browser : Firefox 2, Opera
CLI : Bash
Web Host : Dreamhost
Framework : Ruby […]
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