Pradeep's Incoherency

3:05 PM The meetup comes to an end. Kaiwan did a wonderful job. Thanks to Misys and Rashmi! 2:26 PM Kaiwan is now talking about kernel, both normal and Android. Thats all I can comprehend. 2:09 PM Sorry for the delay in updating. I got drifted away by the discussion. Kaiwan's presentation was a real thought provoker. Can't capture all that people talk here, especially Kaiwan, have to ask him for his materials! 1:27 PM Root File System (RFS) is different from regular Linux. The RFS content (/bin, /etc etc) are inthe /system partition. FS used is YAFFS2. Security : Process runs as a secure sandbox. When Apps are installed, it will create a UID (Linux user ID) and the files are created by that application will bear that user and group ID. This will ensure the data security on FS. 1:21 PM Kaiwan : Android is not (only) linux Its based on a linux kernel No native windowing system No glibc support No GNU/linux utilites Android in not (only)...

The Live Blogging will be here, tomorrow! And some tweets @galuano1 !

Having a little work lately, mostly wasting time in office playing carom (my employer doesn't provide me with options). So my idle devil's workshop has come up with a agenda that lists 1. Procure a Java web server, for god-knows-why reasons 2. Build a USB Charger which will be using 9V batteries (should come handy in excursions) 3. Work on Android for my employer 4. Work on Android to publish a app in the market. (Got an idea from a team mate's plight) Of the aforesaid stuff, I hope, point 2 should be easy, given that I get the stuff I want from SP road this Saturday, and my friend Mayur helps me by parting with his soldering iron. Point 1 is also very easy, but that doesn't have a purpose yet, wait, may be I can start my own cloud! (Muahahaha! Another Idea, Muahahah) Lets see how it goes!

02:50 PM Video Address by Randy Ksar : 5 mins Some trouble in audio devices. Bhavya tries to get the audience talk, but doesn't succeed. Suggestions coming in : More code intensive Off line Collaboration Form groups Still no sign of video though. May be the Youtube URL can be shared. Finally Bhavya tells us that she will share the URL. Thanks to Strumsoft. 02:27 PM Neeraj's Session : Android Content Provider : 20 Mins (supposedly) (Last but one session) Content providers are the only way to share data across apps. Various content providers being Browser, Catlog, Media Store etc. Question from Strumsoft cofounder : Who does the data processing, Content provider or the app? URIs are used to connect to the CPs. URIs are defined something like A. Standard prefix content:// B. Authority , means the content provicer C. What kind of data D. The record being requested So there are basically 3 ways to use CPs 1. use the CPs as is. 2. Modify the CP 3. Write your own CP (...

This week is really eventful. Not that I undermine the Shiv Sena capacity to create issues out of thin air (MNIK!), its Valentines! Love is in the air, Youngster's love for their beloveds, Shiv Sena's love for Khan's Downfall, SRS(if this doesn't ring a bell, I guess Mutalik will do) love for Culture, and Peoples love for Ash on Mutalik's face. I am loving it! I also intend to get my hands on "Dork : The Incredible Adventures of Robin 'Einstein' Varghese" by Sidin . I would also like to read "May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss" by GB . Dear Valentine, are you listening???

As usual, I am back from my slumber to blabber something. Days are being eventful for me. Falling sick, Diagnosed with Dengue, being veg for 10 days in a row (Lunch / Dinner either being Roti/Dal, or Subway Veg Delite) etc etc has taken enough of my time. The other thing I have been doing is Android programming for a Proof of Concept which, for me is like a hobby. though I was very much attracted to the technology when released, I lost touch owing to random stuff at office. But now, I am enjoying doing this stuff. It really feels good to do something different (And guide even senior people do the same.) Of late, I have been thinking to delve into the ROM making of Android. As of now, I am only writing applications and using ROMs designed by other people to flash the project phone. But it seems to be a better thing to learn building the ROMs all by myself, which will make me learn. Yeah, that surely will require a lot more time and dedication, as well as system requirements, it promises...

I am in BIAL now, leaving for a 24 day vacation to Bhubaneswar. It has been 8 months since I was there. The last time I was in this airport, The WIFI speed was excellent, it was surpassing 1Mbps per user! But today it is so so slow. It can't even run the speedtest.net tests! Even the Draft saving feature of Blogger is failing sometime. I wanted to write about hte CATastrophe on the 1st day 1st show. But that never happened, But in this leisurely time I would like to put my thoughts. 1. I don't know about the Test System Architecture, but then, was the load test never done? 2. From the news reports, I guess they used a Distributed Architecture, I mean individual servers for each test center, How come there were no backup servers? 3. Prometric says it was a virus attack. There has been no recent upsurge in virus activities lately. And even if it was a virus attack, Which I find hard to believe, it is pretty unlikely that only this particular s/w was targetted, because no one knew...