The NetBeans Workshop

We had a workshop on how to use NetBeans IDE(IDE for Java).The presentation and demo was presented by Prabit and me.While Prabit spoke about some features now and then while I was showing how to use NetBeans.We showed how to make a login applet.

Many other activities has happened during this time which had kept me busy.For details see Prabit's blog.

More news coming up...!

NIT Rourkela's Sun club

I havent been writing for a long time.The main reason was that I had nothing to write about.Life was just going on with no new surprises.But now I have got something to write and hence forth this blog will be dedicated for that.

Sun microsystems has recently opened many campus clubs in major engineering institutes-ditto in our institute! Ok let me first of all speak about how it was all setup.This,I intend,to do in brief and are listed below as points.

• A campus ambassador was selected by the Sun people through a telephonic interview. Result-Prabit Mishra(3rd Year,CSE).
• A campus club intended to be set up.
• CV submission by students followed by interview of shortlisted ones.
• Sun club formation at NIT,Rourkela.

So this way it all happened and me got into this Sun club. Really speaking this has been fantastic and at the same time exhausting as well.We have been intending to conduct tech-demos for awarness about open-source and other Sun technologies.Till now we are in the planning stage and nothing has been started in the true sense but we will be starting in a big way...just we want that the respoonse comes good and the hard work that we have been putting since the last few days pays.

Now we are in the lab which has been assigned to us and trying to install Solaris(OS).It has been showing some problems when some of us tried installing it on our PCs.Lets see what comes out of today's work.

And yes,today was also a workshop by TCS ppl on Information Security which I had attended.It was sort of good,I will say...not much of technical things just thrown to sound hi-fi but at the same time informative.It was kept on a basic level so as everyone to understand and appreciate.It was a new topic for all of us and most of us appreciated the information which was delivered in the presentation.

All this for today.Rest after some days.Expect more on Sun Club!

Note-Please overlook the typo mistakes,I really dont have the courage to go thru the post once again...All pardons for this!

What is the drive...?

Let me start by making this statment-I am not impressed by grade-points,however high you name... Seriously,it dosen't give me the kick.By this,I ofcourse don't mean to say that they are not important,but it is not at all that I hunt for.And this dosen't push to strive more.

What is it then?The answer right now is:I don't know.I do have a vague idea but if someone says me to pinpoint it,I fall back.I have had lots of arguments many-a-time sometimes with my college-friends or other friends from different colleges.They do ask me(with good intentions ofcourse)what do I consider more worthy and that ought to drive someone more than GPA does...I fumble for answers.Those who know me well,know that I have always had views differnt from others and I always made it a point to voice them-even though they may not taken in a nice way-and think I always make up my mind on a thing very soon and draw conclusions.I say only this that good GPAs are always good to see as laptops are, but they are not as solid as desktops-forgive my comparisons!!All I say them is to do something more meaningful.

But what is it?This is the question that has been haunting me and I am unable to find any answer to this.What is that....is it doing projects,learning more things that what they teach us in college...what is it?

I don't know what is it...but there must be something.Even after a year in college I haven't yet found that thing which really attracts me,is lucrative enough.I don't know what I will be doing after college or even what I want to do?

The only thing that I can figure out about that thing is-It is something more meaningful.

Quote of a lifetime...

Be a first rate version of yourself,not a second rate version of someone else.

What a shame...

Just got this article while browsinn through about IITs which was published by JAM Magazine and may be written by a useless person and thankfully in the IITs...I am extremely happy that this person made to the IITs-if making into one is considered a pride-now I thank I didnt made into one.

Just read the story and do come back-
http://www.jammag.com/campus/iit/iitdream.htm#perceive

Now that you may have read it...
I first read this and just this irritated me at first and then at second thought I couldn't stop laughing...here it is....


There are predominantly three categories of non-IITians.
WORSHIPPERS
Those under the misconception that "IIT is heaven and IITians are Gods." Perhaps the only sources of solace to the IITians(!?!), the constant eulogising by these people can nevertheless get on one's nerves sometimes.
PERSECUTORS
The "just missed IIT" types who, at every opportunity, try to prove why they or their college is one step above IIT in some respect or the other. Undoubtedly, a species to be ignored, if not avoided.
ATHEISTS
Those who can’t distinguish between IIT and ITI. Their ignorance provides comic relief to many IITians. The most comfortable group to be around with.

First of all as if being a non-IITian(now I even hate writing IIT in capitals-but I dont want to undermine what mark IITs have made)!!! Well put me in the second group....I missed IIT-JEE narrowly... But after entering NIT,Rkl I never had said-leave alone proving-that my insti is better than any IIT...Fools do that-atleast I havent found anyone in my insti doing that. Yes, we do admit that IITs are undoutedly better than any engineering college in India.

In the other pages there in the article I find ppl boasting coz they use short-cuts...LH(Ladies hall), CC(computer center) etc. Dear IITians there is also a world outside IITs and every college does that-got me right?I think you cant...or you dont want to...

Again,I find ppl boast coz they listen to Pink Floyd,consume drugs and they see Pondy...I dont think these are something to be proud of ...But these things happen in other colleges but they dont think this is something to boast of and so dont make it public... As far as listening to Rock music is concerned, ppl from our insti when had gone to IIT,Kgp they found that there were infact less rock-followers than in our college-it was obvious during the rock-night but we dont consider it to be something to boast of... Liking a particular kind of music depends on individual choice and has nothing to do with aptitude.

Lastly, this surprising fact that was mentioned that the quality of IITians is diminishing and this is visible coz the choice of music is shifting from Pink Floyd to hindi film songs-uhmmm,I dont have to comment on that.... And I think the guy who had written that,perhaps,he knows only about Pink Floyd-maybe too much impressed by Five Point Someone!!

Ha!If this is what represents the general attitude of the IITians then I am so lucky not to be one of these dumb-headed fellows...I find better ppl who are more sensible in our insti.And one thing to the editor of JAM,publishing anything about IITs will not see the magazine more-I think you must know that.

Doesn't seem like holidays!

I mean this...these holidays no more are like holidays anymore.Let me make a statement -After entering college,I have started despising holidays!Its true...yes,it is!

But after returning from Bhubansewar its no more the same holidays-in the way it had started... I am no more getting bored at home-I have to do something or other...in this way i keep myself busy all day long and so this way I keep boredom a mile away from me.Part of this achivement is attributed to my sister(who have come for a few days) and Nani(my mother's mother) with whom spending time is really wonderful.

But the major time is taken away by Java-I keep studying for long hours-thinking and experimenting-all I have to say that Java is really really interesting...I will keep myself busy this way for the rest of the holidays-I am enjoying this-its fun learning!

I am still planning to do something in Java-thanks to Paavani for advising something-I too have thought of something and lets see how instrumental I can be!!!

Feeling enriched!

Well this is going to be my first tech blog- and as I write this I feel a bit nervous.I had refrained myself from writing anything about technology(if it is!) but thought to write about it this time.

As I had written before that I was to go for doing my course in Java to Bhubaneswar....that turned out to be good.Though the stay in Bhubaneswar was not that good-or to say that wasn't any good either....it was a lot boring.But the Java classes was definitely good and helpful-the teacher was good,the teaching was good,the examples taken up were fantastic,the assignments given were challenging and above all the classes were not boring-like the we have in colleges!!!Thank goodness!!

I really feel enriched today and this was what I had always craved for during the last one year in college...Java was really interesting with its various powerful feature-which the former languages lacked-interfaces,applets,anonimity of classes,objects... In short this was what I wanted to learn since when I entered engineering-to learn something which can be used to make real-time applications.C and C++ gave us an exposure to modern programming but there was no GUI component in it which made it somewhat boring sort of and not suitable for applications...I don't say they were useless-they had their own plus-points-but lacked the features which Java has.

The next thing I plan to do in these holidays is to make some application using Java...but I am still giving a finishing touch to my prepartion for that.Anybody having any idea about making something in Java,please let me know.I will be very grateful for that.

The next aspiration is to learn HTML(in detail-I know only the basics) and Oracle/Database so then I can use JDBC and make better things out of that-oh,god its so much fun learning good and new things.

I hope the next 3 years goes well and I feel more enriched as each semester unfoldds itself!