TheGuyWhoReadLittle

" If you can get your dev environment set up, the rest is easy to get through" I read the above quote while learning Ruby on Rails, and well its true. Setting up the development environment is the toughest job while developing something. Always one or the other library is missing, and the usual routine follows - aptitude search <missing library> aptitude install <missing library> If you are Linux user, then aptitude is a must have package for managing other packages. It makes life easy, you can search, install, remove and do everything possible you can think of related to packages and libraries. Its been a week or two since my holidays started and finally I have set up my machine (the beast, oh yes!) for development of projects that follow the Summer 2013. If you are reading this, and are really bored for the summer, i.e. don't have anything productive to do, I suggest you to learn some things from Coursera . They have courses from all domains which

I have been home from past 1.5 weeks, and from the day I have reached home, I became busy with making my Google Summer of Code Proposals. It had been a tiring time, looking around for more projects, trying to tailor the Proposal as much as possible, taking help from mentors and other senior people in the industry. Truth being told, I loved the workflow last week, and I am looking forward to this summer and contributing code to open source :D So now coming to the projects I have applied to, here are my proposals (You can go through them, and if interested give me some feedback on them): 1. Implementing Custom Functions in Calculator 2. Integrating Cydin with Banshee My last blog post, gave a little insights to my first project. The second project deals with Integrating an open source module called Cydin with Banshee. Banshee , is an open source Music Player, written in C#. Banshee happens to be packaged with all leading Linux Distributions and is one of the most widely used Musi