oneness webcasts

Just found some webcasts at http://www.onenesswebcasts.org/webcastsarchive/index.html

First GroupWise mailer patch

I just completed my first gw mailer fix for bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480091  this week and got the following comment from Dave,

‘Mark reported that for the first time ever he ran all day on Evolution with Chens latest stability patch.  Please, let’s get that merged into the the build so that it’s available in all future released.  Excellent work.’

It fixes some crashes in folder operations such as refreshing folders/moving mails across folders etc. Such a comment, makes me happy to provide more fixes.

keep dreaming the future

‘It is good to have dreams. In fact to achieve something we must have dreams and when dreams do get shattered know that only a dream got shattered. Go ahead and create fresh dreams. We cannot keep weeping on a lost dream.’

Heard this as an answer for a question in one of the recent oneness programs. These keep me motivated.

banshee – first patch

My first patch to banshee got committed today.  I have been using it for a while.

svn – http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/banshee?view=revision&revision=5126 .

Meditation at onenesss temple

I had been to the oneness temple for a meditation session yesterday. The event was well organized and there were around 300 people out there. I met my mother after a month and was happy to be in the temple after ~4 months. Its always nice to be in this temple.

Recession time and our team was downsized

It has been a while since recession has crept in. I know some of the individuals who have done so well in the past have left now just because they cost high as they are from US or Germany. The truth is, am still working in the same team just because am in India.

To provide justice for the people who have left, I need to start raising my level of contribution. My friend gave me the movie, ‘Revolution OS (Linux Story)’ at the right time which is keeping my motivation running. Am just going to hold on to, ‘learn, share and contribute’.

I had to change the svn url in git. The following links helped me,

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitSvnSwitch

I have not tried http://www.sanityinc.com/articles/relocating-git-svn-repositories yet.

slumdog millionaire

Watched the movie yesterday (Republic day). After a long time after wal-E, was happy to watch a good movie! Its about a guy from slum becoming a millionaire through the Tv program. Anil kapoor is unable to digest this fact. So he wants the police to inquire him. The story starts from police station where the guy jamal, explains how he knew the answers from his life. The movie portrays how the people from slums grow up and the difficulties they face. The most important theme is, ‘luck always favors the brave’. Jamal and his brother face every situations bravely and more importantly they are happy with what they have! They keep enjoying every moment in life, irrespective of where they are. And that explains all. Finally police understand that Jamal is pure at heart. Jamal while becoming a millionaire also gets his girl friend back. Jai ho song at the end made us all stay and watch the names of the actors which come at last for which mostly I don sit patiently. On the whole a very nice movie and worth to watch in a theatre.

Hackweek update – evolution-mono-providers

During this hackweek, I was working on adding mono loader bindings to EDS backends to facilitate writing backends using mono . There was a confusion about what is evolution-sharp and eds-sharp, to be clear,

evolution-sharp – holds the bindings for eds libraries libecal, libedatacal, camel, libebook, libical etc.

eds-sharp (now renamed as evolution-mono-providers) – holds the mono loader which would load the assemblies into C and will hold backends developed in mono.

During this hackweek I added the bindings for libical and libedatacal into evolution-sharp and completed the interface bindings for all the backend virtual functions in evolution-mono-providers. All the patches for evolution-sharp and evolution-data-server are now in svn HEAD. One can now build and develop evolution-mono-providers.

The more exiting part is that I now got the oppurtunity to use evolution-mono-providers for developing icecore backend. An immediate use of the package developed during hackweek. Am also packaging it for opensuse-11.1 now

I have package currently in gitorious , would be eventually moving it to svn.gnome.org. There will be lot more work going into it from next week. Though I have a test program for some of the interfaces, I need to write a test suite for the interfaces and a test backend.

I made a bad mistake during the first hack week by writing a hacky code for completing the feature in time and later lost interest to go near it. Second hack week was a good time to fix the memory issues in libical. Now in third I made up mind to complete a proper code and get all the code upstream first before talking about it. Am now happy that all the code is upstream and making use of this package for some great work!!

Thanks to srini and johnny for getting the patches reviewed fast which enabled me to get them upstream.

As I have a better idea now writing the bindings, will be starting the mono loader bindings for mailer in the free time which miguel was very interested in. I would be seeking for some pointers from fejj for that.. May be sankar would also join in for that

Dreams

In the past I have had some dreams which came true. I used have some dreams, like walking in some place or speaking to someone and after some days the same situation happens in reality. I would then realize that it is the same place, same time and having the same feeling as it was in dream. Exiting, not sure how it happens. In one of the dreams, I became an eagle and was flying. Ofcourse I know it can never be real. May be, was it my flight journey ? Yesterday night, I wrote a poem in my dreaming looking at a beautiful girl. I was observing her for a lot of time and then started writing it. I don remember any of the words, but I only know  they were good and I liked it a lot. It impressed her.. I was wondering whether I was thinking about anything related to it before sleeping. Hmm, but I was just runnning my mono test program and got a break through Writing mono bindings for mailer providers should be easy. With the same happiness I just slept. The dream was no way related. Well let me see, whether am going to see this dream in reality. If it happens, am lucky