Sunday, October 9, 2011

My new Alto K10 VXI


Finally, I got my first Car. Yes, it is Alto K10 VXI ( Silky Silver ). The drive has been so comfortable. No doubt it is the best selling hatch back car from several years. With a decent 17+ mileage, and pretty good look, it suits a small family very much.

Featured with a 1000cc engine, front power windows, and other accessories as part of the fully loaded model, its giving me 17 kms per litre. With the amount of traffic increasing in Bangalore, we can easily sneak in the small roads with this Alto. Thats an added feature, as its small and can be driven through the narrowest roads like Avenue Road :)

With the launch of the hyundai-eon. There has been a very big hype already about eon, that it might compete and even beat Alto ( 800 cc).
We need to wait and watch as to how the competition goes between eon and Alto.

Yahoo!!!!



Its been 2 months since I joined Yahoo!. I have learnt ample amount of technologies. I am already experiencing as to why engineers like to work at Yahoo! and why its one of the best places to work for!

I have seen engineers being not happy in companies, either due to the constraints they will be having, to incorporate the languages. They will be restricted to work on only one thing for a very long period of time. There will not be much of coding, and only enhancements for the existing code. LIke these, there may be several reasons for why they dont like their jobs.

Yahoo! is one of the few companies whom you should look for. It provides the engineers to leverage the power of open source technologies, freedom of implementing the code using the open source technologies based on engineers choice and its feasibility and flexibility.

Below are some of things I have dealt with.

1) Hadoop File System, Grid Computing.

2) Selenium

3) Robotium

4) Android programming.

5) IOs programming using Objective C.

6) IntelliJ IDE which is robust and really awesome.

7) Hibernation in Java using various Databases.

I am enjoying every single moment at Yahoo! and hoping and hunger to learn ample amount of things, every day!

Friday, August 5, 2011

Last day at NetApp!




It was a great journey from July 20th 2009 till Aug 2nd 2011, both professionally and personally, at LSI and NetApp. I will be missing my friends and I am carrying back ample amount of memories to cherish them in the coming days. The weekend cricket, trek, quarterly trips and team meetings and many more. The recent team outing at the Royal Orchid Resort is a heavy load to cherish :)

I will be joining Yahoo soon. All excited about my new career ahead.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Spiral Display of a 2-D Matrix


Its one of the common interview questions where you will be asked to display elements of a 2-D matrix Spirally. I was trying to write the code for the same. Over a period of nearly 5 hours. I got something decent.



Code can be found here

The complexity is not so good. If you have any suggestions on improving it, you can comment.

The logic here is :

Traverse the first row and then the last column and then the last row and then the first column.

Then, discard the traversed rows and columns. The matrix will be reduced by 2 rows and 2 columns.
Keep doing this until you fetch the order number of elements in a matrix.

If its a row, column matrix. Don't perform the above operation , just print out the elements.

Friday, July 29, 2011

MSSS - 2nd Semester - 2011

After the 1st Sem results were out, I had almost 2 months off. Off as in, it is not the usual full time student holidays, but a long break from studies and was completely involved in the office work.

Now its time for some hard core studies. The 2nd sem has begun. Having said that, its almost one month from the day course handouts were listed for the current semester.  At first in the current sem, I had technical communication as one of the subject. It was swapped with data structures and algorithms. I had called up BITS to clarify the same. They confirmed that the data structures and algorithms was moved to the next semester.

On a weekend I bought all the semester books. After few weeks, I opened the virtual site of BITS and looked up for my subjects. I saw a change again. Data structures and algorithms was back in my subjects list. I called up BITS the next morning. They confirmed me that they changed back the subject as many students had called and requested.

With all this drama happening, I have not yet been able to concentrate on the 2nd semester. This time new concept called quiz has been introduced for data structures and algorithms. 10% of the weightage is given to that and it is mandatory to attend. The mid sem exams will be in September Last week.


Hopefully I will come to track on my 2nd Semester soon!!!!!

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Exploring Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal !!

Last time I had posted something about Ubuntu was in Jan 2010.

It was about Ubuntu 9.10. After that I got into some things related to my work and could not concentrate much on Ubuntu releases though I used to download the releases and carry them.


This weekend, I had planned to download and install the Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal. Everything went well as planned and I am very happy. 

1) The look and feel is very awesome, and its changed quite well when compared to the earlier releases of Ubuntu. Now the default look on the screen is like the Vista Theme. 

2) Twitter, FaceBook accounts come along with Empathy IM.


3) The FireFox 5.0 is very awesome and default in Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal :). 


4)The app launcher is like the Samung Galaxys Home Screen, with a search tab at the top, which is so so cool. 


5) Searching the applications based on their type. 


6) The usual Compiz-Fusion and the WorkSpace Switcher :)

7) Comes with default LibreOffice Writer and Gimp Image Editor :)


Still many more features to explorer and more precisely the above ones were GUI related. A lot to explore w.r.t the TERMINAL. Will update those experiences as soon as possible. 



Happy Ubunting :) :)



Wednesday, June 22, 2011

BITS Pilani, MS -- End Sem ( Comprehensive Exam) Results :) :)

Few months back I was worried about my end sem results. I was expecting to get a D or E in Data Mining and C in Advanced OS too. And the results turned out to be as expected. Bingo!!!!

Here are my results of my Comprehensive Exams of 2nd Semester ( Dec2010 - May2011).


===============================================================================
 SNo.Course No.  Course Title                  EC-1  EC-2  Total   Final
                                               (40%)(60%)  (100%)  Grade
 ===============================================================================
 1. CS    ZG623 ADVANCED OPERAT SYSTEMS       14.50 26.00   40.50   C  
 2. SS    ZG514 OBJ ORI ANALYSIS & DESIGN     30.00 31.00   61.00   A  
 3. BITS  ZC481 COMPUTER NETWORKS             33.00 45.00   78.00   A  
 4. IS    ZC415 DATA MINING                   17.50  9.50   27.00   D  
 ===============================================================================
  Current  CGPA :    7.47

 Legend : EC-1 : Mid-Semester Test (Closed Book)
          EC-2 : Comprehensive Examination (Open Book)
          NA   : Not Appeared               
          UE   : Under Evaluation
          RRA  : Required to Register Again
I was very very happy as the results turned out to be as expected. I hadn't done well in Data Mining, so pretty much I obtained as much as I deserved. 
The Registration card for the continued students is out on June 21, 2011. Looking forward to apply for the First semester 2011 ( which is my actual 2nd Semester).
I will post the further updates once I have any. 
Congratulations to all those who faired well in their exams. :)

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Mid-Sem and Comprehensive Sem 2010 MSSS BITS Pilani

In the last post I had blogged about my first closed book MS WILP. Like i had mentioned I have opted for Software Systems.

The mid sem marks were out. I hadnt performed well in Data Mining, so there were no surprises that I didnt get
enough marks.

Here are the mid-sem marks.


===============================================================================
 SNo.Course No.  Course Title                  EC-1 Regular
                                                (40%) 
 ===============================================================================
 1. CS    ZG623 ADVANCED OPERAT SYSTEMS       14.50 
 2. SS    ZG514 OBJ ORI ANALYSIS & DESIGN     30.00 
 3. BITS  ZC481 COMPUTER NETWORKS             33.00 
 4. IS    ZC415 DATA MINING                   17.50 
 ===============================================================================

I have given my Comprehensive Marks on April 1st and April2nd. Phew. April 2nd was supposed to India vs Sri Lanka WC Finals :)

In the comprehensive exam, Data mining was a flop again. I have not performed well at all. I am little worried if I can get at least a "D" to pass the paper. Else, I have to reappear for Data Mining exam again by paying the complete semester fee after all the 4 sem's get over. This is because the exams will be held only on Saturday and Sunday during the usual Mid-Sem, Comprehensive exam timings. So, there will be no separate slots for us to take up the remaining subjects. 

Hoping to pass in Data Mining. I will update the results once I get my Comprehensive marks.

Note :

I have learnt that its always a nice trick to score well in Mid-Sem exams. Since the Comprehensive exams will be Open book, we might take it very lightly and not prepare well, and end up like I did. So, smash the Mid-Sem papers to atleast get a B overall.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Pursuing MS at BITS, Pilani

It's been my long time I have blogged since 2010 and I have decided to do one about my continued education. My long term desire, to have a MS degree has come true. After series of research, I have decided to Opt for Work Integrated MS Course which is being offered by BITS, Pilani. Numerous employees from different companies, are and have been doing it. Though at first I didn't opt for the course, later I decided to do it.

               Each semester will be offered 4 courses, for 3 Semesters. Then, final Semester(4th) will be dissertation. We will be needing to present our project at Pilani institute on the preferrable day, which will be agreed upon by you and the university. ( Prior to the day of submission of project, University will contact us and based on your available schedule, you can book a day and visit Pilani and present your project).

I am right now in my first semester. I have opted for 4 courses ( Data Mining, OOAD, Advanced OS, Computer Networks). The first closed book exams are on Feb 5 and Feb6th 2011. Its been hard to maintain work and study life balance. Hoping to fare well in the exams. I will be updating the blog periodically. Drop in if you any questions regarding this WILP, at BITS. I will get back to you.