Weekend

This weekend happened to be a full fledged roaming weekend to me. Saw a couple of movies & got a few dvd's. Apart from them I found a few things about programming.

This weekend I had hoped to write the code to blank out a cd-rw using libburn/nautilus-cd-burn. Finally they created all sorts of problems that I had no other option but to spend my time analysing a lot about those 2 libraries. It seems basically nautilus-cd-burn uses cdrecord for burning, it's more like a wrapper library with a good amount of advanced functions. As for Libburn it's the perfect library but the development is very slow. I think a C# wrapper to it would be real nice. Thats would make lots of things easy for me. There are 2 roads b4 me now...... 1. Either use cdrecord (which somehow I'm not comfortable with) 2. Libburn - This lacks a lot of features, but it's a library. To use this, I have to concentrate on creating a wrapper to libburn; to make things simple for me. Before choosing one of the ways, I have decided to understand/learn all theoretical concepts related to optical media burning. Few days of reading is something which lies b4 me.

Meanwhile I have to improve the gui for this. Lots of work to be done......

Manoj, one small request..... I think it would be better if you post a general link to things like budget & the job fair. I understand the nobleness behind ur act :-)

Sleepless Days

After a very long time, I'm back to my routine of sleeping less in the nights & more in the daytime. For almost couple of weeks I'm sleeping at 1.30 - 2.00 in the morning. For the past 3 days the reason I stay awake is valid, IMHO. Y'day I did the samething that I have been doing for the 2 nights b4 that. I redesigned the basic window for my app using GTK.ActionEntry. Man, Gtk is so cool. That to with the C# wrapper it's too simple to code (IMHO). The Window is ready now, I have to think about the rest.

Now, that I'm atleast doing what I intended to, I can tell what this app of mine is gonna do. I'm planning to develop a Gtk based CD burning app. But the probs that I face now is how to go about this. K3B is the best CD curning app available for Linux, IMHO. It uses cdrecord & other cdrtools. I dunno whether to use this or libburn (the development for this is very slow) or libnautilus-burn (this might be a good choice). For now I'm just gonna use libburn to erase the CD, this I hope to finish over the weekend. Then, I have to learn a lot about libnautilus-burn & see if it's fine to use that.

This is the big picture, It's gonna take lots of time & ofcourse, hardwork to get something done. I hope I can get this done.

The Day that was Y'day

It's really good to see this Blog active.

Viji u look really good in saree..... Same applies to Vaishu. Vaishu u look wonderful in saree, but in Salwar u look like the same old LOOSE. I'll upload the few wayanad photos that were taken in my cam today. I'm currently playing Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2, in a 2 player co-op mode with my sis. It's really easy to handle big Villians in a 2 player mode. I think I'll run out of games by March-end. should get few more titles through friends who come down from u.s.

Incase some of u wanna refresh your past memories have a look at the photos in here. I'll scan & upload the photos from our ooty trip. Is there anyone here who has photos from our college times ? If yes, let me know & we'll scan & upload them.

Mono, Glade & Me....

Atlast I surprised myself. I successfully downloaded Mono 1.1.4 & installed the same on my slack. Then I sat with Glade to design the thing (I don't wanna say what app I'm planning) that I had in mind. That was when I realized that I forgot the little bit about GTK that I had learned a while back. But anyway that's not a probs. I'm sure I can get back to pace in a short while. The good thing is that I have started something seriously. If I can get a basic working model, then I wud feel good.

Y'day was a real bad day, too much of work. Today I plan to give a read thru the GTK+ tutorial that I printed long ago (I have to find out where it is in the mess, that I call my room). Then I question myself what I wanna do ? I'm somehow not content with what I, already, am. Should do something different..... But the question is WHAT?

This weekend was one of those rare ones, when I miss catching a movie. I was feeling tired & desired to fiddle with my comp & get some sleep. But I ended up playing games with PS2.

Incase some of you wonder what Mono/Glade/GTK means....

Mono - An opensource implementation of MS .NET for Linux, OSX (MAC) & Windows. A gem of a programming platform.
GTK+ - It's a toolkit to build anything. GNOME is an amazing example.
Glade - A GUI designer for GTK. Speeds up ur Application Development time.

Arattai Topic

Manoj Machan..... u r the Married fellow here, let us know about your marriage life da......
Suja.... Let us know about ur useless unmarried life......

Here I come

I wanted to be the first guy to post some crap here, but Manoj manged to post the first blog. But then his post is quite good & not crap, hence I take the honours.

Folks, you can use W.Bloggar to post & publish the blogs, if you are using windows. Remember whenever you post a blog, you need to publish it as well. So choose Post & Publish. Incase you are using Linux (I know of no serious Linux user here except Yours Truly :-)) Let me know.

'No Matter how hard it is; We do it the ECE way' - Manoj do you remember this?