The feeling that B.Tech. is almost over forces me to feel a bit nervous. I spend (I am not sure whether to call it wastage) a lot of time socializing (at coffee shop and in BC with friends) and rest of the time I am sitting in front of my computer screen trying to develop or explore something. My life at IIIT has been influenced by a lot of factors from Dr. Kamal’s use of a tablet pc and wifi to connect to the projector for a lecture or Dr. Sangal’s outstanding way of teaching or the limited bandwidth forcing me to think of alternatives or Nirnimesh’s inclination towards Linux or Ranta’s entrepreneurial skills or Sandeep Saini’s dedication towards downloading. You have so many people around you with exceptional skills in their fields. All these have forced me rethink about myself in one or the other way.

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A few days ago, I attended a PPT (PrePlacement Talk). Frankly speaking, it was the only talk that turned out to be of some use of all the talks I attended till date. The speaker was a Vice President of the company. While delivering the talk, he reached a point where he started explaining the different between Innovation and Invention. And the explanation was mind blowing. I thought I will share it with everyone

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THIS IS MY 101^ST POST

I wrote about a mobile blah almost two months ago and something similar happened today. Previously they were looking for a PhD but this time scenario was totally different

Me, Deepak Vig, Dharmeet Hora were having lunch in our favorite mess “Yuktahaar”. Deepak’s phone rang. He started talking to someone and started looking at me. I thought it was Randeep, who has called and asked Deepak not to say anything about me. But he passed on the phone to me. Though I didn’t want to talk, I had to.

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We just received a mail from IIIT-H help desk stating

New year special proxy server has been created for all users as gift from
IIIT Server Room staff. There are no moderations done on that proxy so all
websites are accessible. Even better there is no connection limit per IP
or per user on the new proxy.

Proxy is accessible at IP _SNIP_ on port _SNIP_. Please feel free to
download as much as you want from this new proxy server.

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Auto Spell Checkers in Firefox, Thunderbird, Spicebird, Tomboy Notes and whatever else have totally changed the way I write English. Previously (two years ago) I used to make tons of spelling mistakes while writing blogs but these days I hardly make a mistake while blogging, sending mails, taking notes etc. But this enhancement in technology has made me dumber. Previously, I was confident about the spellings I knew but now I am not confident about spellings of anything I spell. Today, I was writing an application (for what?? secret ) and got damn confused about spellings of “committee”, “admission” etc. (double m, double tt, double s ?? ). After two failed attempts, I wrote the application in word processor and took a print out. Damn easy, huh!!!

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Goal

I am looking forward to develop a wordpress plugin which needs to interact with database extensively and may need additional database.

What I have done

I have read the following howtos word to word including a few linked pages from the howtos.

• Devlounge – How to Write a Wordpress Plugin
• Wordpress – Writing a Plugin
• Adam Brown – List of WordPress Hooks

Confusion

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After failing few (will be disclosed later) written tests in a row, I got a call for an interview. I was pretty surprised as I never expected it to happen. Initially I was nervous because I don’t know c/c++/data structures/algorithms. All I know is Python, Computer Networks, a few Open Source technologies and how to use them to generate cash. Well, after waiting for four hours, I got a chance to meet the interviewers (two). I was nervous as it was my first interview. They asked me for the resume. Below is the conversation.

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It seems nobody is left untouched from the recent Economic slowdown or crisis in western world. Not even the people serving uploaded pirated content

Economic Slowdown

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This post’s aim is to boast a bit about my plugin videocache and generating some more backlinks for the website Recently videocache was discussed on a lot of Thai tech forums. They helped me a get a lot of traffic and exposure for the plugin.

Tutorials in English and Other languages

1. Youtube Cache with Squid + Lighttpd on Ubuntu
2. caching youtube squid 2.6.STABLE14 di easyhotspot (xubuntu 7.10)
3. Caching Youtube dengan Squid di Debian

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Well, the big day has come for everyone. Its morning 6:30AM and hundreds of people in almost the same dress walking down the road towards the same goal! Everyone thinking as high of himself as possible. The scenario on IIIT Roads these days is same as in front the newly build DLF building. Hundreds of people in white shirt and black pants. The dresses successfully hiding the actual personals, makes me feel very high of everyone I meet.

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