LB Diary - Day 3
The next thing that I remember is Homyar shaking me awake the next
morning. I was feeling much better and all the exhaustion seemed to gone
away. Good thing too, because I was scheduled to give my talk in three
hours. The talk before ours was on Gambas (Gambas is mostly basic).
Gambas is supposed to be a clone of VB. I dont know how good it really
is, but the speaker managed to create a movie player and its RPM package
for Suse in three minutes flat. And yes, everythign worked absolutely
fine.
After that was my talk. There were about 10 people in the hall
to listen to us. Out of them, one old fellow kept insisting that
working on Mainframes is a horrowing experience and that we had really
done a tremendous job in making life easier for other mainframe
programs. I can't believe that Abhay and I actually argued with that
fellow in favour of mainframes for a while.
We met Rajesh (from Infosys) out there. He was one of the audience. All
our efforts bearing fruit in Infosys have been largely due to the
platform layed by Rajesh during last year or so. He has helped
deployment and adoption Cygwin in Infosys and helped us with a lot of
problems earlier on. In fact it was Rajesh who gave me pointers to
resources to help me get on with x3270.
I had hoped to have lunch with Karthik, who was across the street in
IISC. Unfortunately, he had his project submission tomorrow and his
exams were going on, so we had to settle for telephone conversation.
Also on the same day was Mahendra's talk and one by Wietse again on
secure programming where he covered the techniques and pitfalls of
file shredding. This was perhaps the best talk of the lot. If you can
get your hands on the presentation slides, please do. Of course, it
wont be as good as attending the talk itelf, but its surely worth
going through.
Towards the end I had another chat with Andrew Cowie on gcj and Java and
what is more advantageous where. One of the rare technical discussions
that I had during all the three days.
Luck as usual deserted me. There was a lucky draw for an Apple IBook and
a Simputer. I didn't get both :( Well, there are many who didnt get
either, but I hoped that I would get something to take home.
The closing ceremony was drawn a bit too long. The owners of the venue
came up with a rule at the last minute that there would be no
entertainment preogrammes and so the rock show was scrapped. I wonder
where this rule was for the last three years. Anyway, I got my
speakers momento during that ceremony. Finally, something to take home
:)
Dinner was again at Atul's place and it was again, very good indeed.
Kudos to Atul Chitnis for taking care of my primary concern. After a lot
of laugh and talk and food and drink, all the speakers said goodbye to
each other and that was the end of Linux Bangalore 2004 for me. I still
had another day to go in Bangalore and we were going to visit the
Infosys campus in Bangalore the next day. Something I was quite looking
forward to.
morning. I was feeling much better and all the exhaustion seemed to gone
away. Good thing too, because I was scheduled to give my talk in three
hours. The talk before ours was on Gambas (Gambas is mostly basic).
Gambas is supposed to be a clone of VB. I dont know how good it really
is, but the speaker managed to create a movie player and its RPM package
for Suse in three minutes flat. And yes, everythign worked absolutely
fine.
After that was my talk. There were about 10 people in the hall
to listen to us. Out of them, one old fellow kept insisting that
working on Mainframes is a horrowing experience and that we had really
done a tremendous job in making life easier for other mainframe
programs. I can't believe that Abhay and I actually argued with that
fellow in favour of mainframes for a while.
We met Rajesh (from Infosys) out there. He was one of the audience. All
our efforts bearing fruit in Infosys have been largely due to the
platform layed by Rajesh during last year or so. He has helped
deployment and adoption Cygwin in Infosys and helped us with a lot of
problems earlier on. In fact it was Rajesh who gave me pointers to
resources to help me get on with x3270.
I had hoped to have lunch with Karthik, who was across the street in
IISC. Unfortunately, he had his project submission tomorrow and his
exams were going on, so we had to settle for telephone conversation.
Also on the same day was Mahendra's talk and one by Wietse again on
secure programming where he covered the techniques and pitfalls of
file shredding. This was perhaps the best talk of the lot. If you can
get your hands on the presentation slides, please do. Of course, it
wont be as good as attending the talk itelf, but its surely worth
going through.
Towards the end I had another chat with Andrew Cowie on gcj and Java and
what is more advantageous where. One of the rare technical discussions
that I had during all the three days.
Luck as usual deserted me. There was a lucky draw for an Apple IBook and
a Simputer. I didn't get both :( Well, there are many who didnt get
either, but I hoped that I would get something to take home.
The closing ceremony was drawn a bit too long. The owners of the venue
came up with a rule at the last minute that there would be no
entertainment preogrammes and so the rock show was scrapped. I wonder
where this rule was for the last three years. Anyway, I got my
speakers momento during that ceremony. Finally, something to take home
:)
Dinner was again at Atul's place and it was again, very good indeed.
Kudos to Atul Chitnis for taking care of my primary concern. After a lot
of laugh and talk and food and drink, all the speakers said goodbye to
each other and that was the end of Linux Bangalore 2004 for me. I still
had another day to go in Bangalore and we were going to visit the
Infosys campus in Bangalore the next day. Something I was quite looking
forward to.
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