09 Feb 2009
I am writing this post from IT Dept lab from where the codecracker server is running. After a lot of problems and testing we finally managed to get codecracker working in Python and it has run smoothly without any failure till now. Now only 20 minutes are left for it to end. It feels good to be a part of an event as big as codecracker.
Rajat had set questions which were really tough than the last year. Mostly people from IIITs did the solutions. The stats will be given tomorrow morning. We had a team ‘ACRush’ from china. Unfortunately he did not participate. Till now we have more than 300 submissions. The stats will be out by tomorrow morning.
But the performance of students from my college was really poor.
The source code of codecracker will be out very soon.
30 Jan 2009
Codecracker, the online judge of our college designed and developed by GLUG last year is all set again for a new round. The pattern is changed a little bit. This time we have six questions, two easy, two medium and two difficult. It is scheduled on Feb 3, 2009 from 10 P.M. to 12 P.M. IST.
13 Jan 2009
I think of holding a small hack week kind of thing at my college on GNU/Linux and FOSS where people arent serious about FOSS. This can help us create the hacking culture in our college.
10 Jan 2009
Another year comes to an end. But 2008 was very important to me in many sense. For the first time I started playing around with real sofwares. To begin with Debayan started GLUG SDU (which is now totally dead) and we started to hack some softwares. First one was linuxdcpp (the linux alternate to Apexdc++). Though I did not succeed in doing anything. But I enjoyed a lot. Then came the Google Summer of Code for whcih I applied without thinking much about a proper multithread download manager for Gnome. I must admit that I got four five responses to which I had nothing to answer, they wanted me to hang on and think. But I had absolutely no idea what to tell them. Then it passed by. Then onwards I was very much determined to work on open source softwares.
19 Dec 2008
I installed openSUSE 11.1 and within no time i screwed my panel while trying to personalize things.