Mid night Exam Boredum

I have Embedded Systems exam today, so I woke at 12.30 AM to start studying when I was faced with an interesting problem. I got myself an eBook of Raj Kamal, "Embedded Systems - Architecture, Programming and design", Tata McGraw Hill, Second Edition (i do not want to share the link here, a simple google search will get the link on many of the file sharing sites).

The pages were aligned for front-and-back printout. One page aligned left, and another right. It was a pain in the ass to read such a text. So, I wrote a simple iText based java program to correct it. This will run on 2 pasess to correct the even pages of the book to align left and go through the pages to make it in Portrait format from the default landscape view.


PS: This code is for personal use only. Try this at your own risk.  

April 2011 - A Replay!

I just couldn't ask for more. What a month it has been! I'm suprised at the level of things I was able to do in just a matter of month. All credit goes my you people, readers of my blog. For all the things that I came up with you people were always there to give me feedback and keep me motivated. So, April 2011 isn't yet over. So am I.

This month saw the end of many beautiful things of my life.

1. GSoC 2011
2. VI Semester college life
3. End semester practical examinations.

I don't know how to put it, but I'm sort of happy still. I did a lot of things this month -

1. Got myself introduced to Elgg and its core.
2. Created a SPAM detection plugin for Elgg 1.8
3. Social semantic viewer was the start of this month's first facebook app
4. iBlue - Semantic Extractor Engine was re-written from ground up to improve its performance.
5. iBlue - Sentiment Analyzer, a simple implementation to test Bayesian filters using the Multi Domain Sentiment dataset
6. Social Heat - This baby was just born today early morning in my Labs.

Social Heat, is my new application in development since yesterday evening. What it is, how it works, and other details will be out soon. I just want to give one thing away now - If you belong to kind of people who thinks, Social Networking is all crap, and Facebook is $hit. This little piece of code compiled together will sure revoultionize your business.

Semantic Week

If my entire last week was with Elgg, this entire week was with Semantics. Semantics in various aspects, you should have already seen my Semantic Social Viewer (http://ashwanthkumar.in/labs/facebook/), did some really super stuff with Guruprasad S. Srivatsav for his final year project.

I've been looking around WWW for some Social Computing stuff, and things. Found a lot of new ideas, to work on this summer.

Most important of all my GSoC results are coming out on 25th of this month. As, I've already told, I've no hope for that at all. I got introduced to a guy, whom I check'd out to only find, that he has applied to the same Organization, and same topic as mine, with 150% more sophisticated profile. So, the dream of $5000 to fix my PC is all lost! Still, #elgg is always my best friend. I'll continue to contribute to Elgg always. I'm waiting the results to release my plugin.

So, nothing more interesting yet! Got my semester practicals coming up. Yeah, its the same procedure of Ctrl + C, & Ctrl + V and some 30 min vetti time waste. Pracs all over. Theory, is all ready to upfront me, while I ain't.

One more to go after this, count down started! =D