KSpace

Moving blog to http://www.kspace.in/blog

:Kunal: — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:47:30 +0000

The title says it all! Please update your bookmarks!

Moving my blog to http://www.kspace.in/blog

Sony Vaio

:Kunal: — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:00:19 +0000

Joined club of Ex-IBMer

:Kunal: — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:50:25 +0000

Yes. That’s right. I have resigned from IBM India sometime back. Officially my last working day was 31st Aug, 2007 in IBM.

Wondering why I left IBM ? and why I joined Subex? Oh yes, Did I tell you that I work with Subex Azure Limited Now. Gimme sometime. I shall be posting later on everything related.

Search Plugin for firefox/IE7

:Kunal: — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:19:01 +0000

Few days back, I wrote search plugin for Firefox/IE7. The job was to search from the web browser without logging in to the search engine website. Firefox already has few plugin ( google, yahoo etc) and more are scattered through out the web world.

Writing the search plugin is quite simple. It’s actually a simple XML file. Few links which you can refer to, if you ever need to write your own search plugin.

http://www.opensearch.org/Home

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_OpenSearch_plugins_for_Firefox

http://searchplugins.net/

KDWUD – Web Miner

:Kunal: — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:26:11 +0000

I am *still* working on this web mining utility. Developing a complete application is not always easy! Though this apps is still in make phase , It can do few things listed below

Click here to View

Features:

1) Can process mostly used access log format. Common, Extended and IIS access log format.

2) Generates simple statistical data. e.g, Unique Visitors, Page hits, Operating systems stats, browser stats.

3) Generates User’s navigational behaviors across the domain as sequential patterns.

4) Multi threaded applications. Phew!

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Corba Exception!!

:Kunal: — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 17:13:21 +0000

My team was stuck! They were actually trying to figure out why one of the CORBA apps is not responding perfectly. It was throwing corba exception. Catch block was not printing any exception id either (Thanks to the programmer who wrote that module). My lead asked me to look into the issue. Here’s the *PROBLEM*! I have no idea how a CORBA application works!

Well I started somehow! Asked other members how it behaved earlier. No one had any idea why it stopped working suddenly! Anyways I tried to print the exception id in the catch block and Phew! it said COMM_FAILURE! Still no idea how to proceed.

I googled for the same error and related keywords. Finally I found command reference page of IONA orbix. This page actually gives you reference to all command using which you can interact with Implementation repository!

I deleted the server using rmit and added it back using putit. Didn’t work again! Again after googling, I found that the server which I am trying to add is persistent and I added it other way! Deleted the server and added it as persistent server again! It *worked*!

Still No clue how a corba apps works!!

Software Engineer??? or Coolies?

:Kunal: — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:43:37 +0000

Damn! Just check out this post

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Fool’s day celebration?

:Kunal: — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:08:10 +0000

Not sure whether it’s a hoax! This information is displayed on Gmail homepage on April 1st, 2007 (Yes, fool’s day).

GMail homepage announces Gmail Paper. As per their site, User’s can select emails and google would print and mail the hardcopy to the users. Is it really true? I doubt!

Here’s the screenshot from gmail

for more information, check out : http://www.gmail.com

Well don’t forget, Gmail was announced on April 1st only. This information may be true

Update: Yet another April fool’s Joke by Google!

We call them Engineers!!

:Kunal: — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:56:20 +0000

My friend’s brother came to our flat yesterday night. He is doing his engineering from a so-called premier engineering college of bangalore. We all were sitting today and doing something (basically wasting time! ) I just saw his college lab record! Phew! I was shocked! For one of the lab program, he literally sketched MS Word window in his record with pencil!

Yes! I said “MS Word Window”! I don’t know why the lecturers thinks that if a student can copy the sketch of any program window he knows it better ( or any other good reason)! I don’t see any good reason either! If it was that necessary for record, he could have taken a screenshot and can paste the print page. Why would any engineer ( in making ) is required to sketch the MS word winodw in his/her record? It is simply waste of time.

Does it really make sense to sketch any program window to learn it better? In my opinion, the lecturers could have given some short assignment using MS word! Well, it’s just my opinion

Guruji : Indian Search Engine

:Kunal: — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:17:24 +0000

http://www.guruji.com

IIT Delhi grads launched a home-grown search engine guruji.com recently. Looks like Anurag Dod and Gaurav Mishra are planning to challenge Sergey Brin and Larry Page( founders of Google). Lets see how it goes. The page looks neat. Here is what I searched for

and the same search in google..