Travelogue: NCAC – 2005, PSG Tech, Coimbatore.

My travelogue can be reached here.

It was a real fun to talk about Open Source. Just three weeks before this event, the department had inaugurated a lab of Open Source and some of their alumni members from Novell presented talks on Open Source Technologies and distributed OpenSuSE DVDs to the lab and students.

Eureka!! Another Planet discovered.

Isn’t the subject amazing? Yep, I guess. Today, while blogging and reading other planets, a chotasa spark jalaa in my mind..oOOO(Why not we have a planet for evolution?)……

jeee booom baaaaaaa….,

Here it is, however, it is as of now running locally on my laptop, will soon move it to a publicly accessible server.

WOW!! I should really appreciate and thank, Jeff Waugh and Scott James Remnant for the Planet stuff. The setup was so easy that it took hardly 5 mins to get my planetevolution up and running. Great work guys.

More enhancements than bugs, isn’t it great?

From the list of around 30 pilot-conduit bugs, today I categorized them in to two broad categories, fix-for-god-sake and fix-for-goodness-sake. There was a third category, ask-nice-to-get-fixed, as a goodies for the hacker contributing to it. Most of the bugs decorated the fix-for-goodness-sake category, as many of fix-for-god-sakes’ are gone, phew.

Its really the right time to start supporting the new Palm OS databases which, pilot-link 0.12.x supports, in evolution-conduits. First one is Contacts, with so many requests, with one of them falling in to ask-nice-to-get-fixed category.

A Beagle bite

It feels like void, even after doing lot of coding in evolution & co, till, I get a Beagle bite. May be that Beagle hacking is a real fun. After the memory-optimization work, I took two-bugs filed by our test-hero, David Richards, 323276 and 323312. Though both the bugs are fixed, I haven’t checked-in the fix for 323276 as it requires a little debugging-work to be done to get rid of a double free error.

323312 actually brought-up a corner case in the FilterPPT, actually, I would say one of the weirdness of Microsoft’s formats. We were reading till EOF of the PPT stream and it was working fine except the document attached with the bug. Some stray bytes were left without reading causing the filter to enter into an infinite-loop.

Guess, will have more beagle-bites this week.