Deactivated My Facebook Account

Posted on August 23, 2011 in Social Networking | 4 comments

I have deactivated my Facebook account, following mass requests from my mind and I don’t plan to reactivate it – am happy without it. I’d probably join Google+ when it removes its age limit. I’ve already migrated all my contacts to Gmail and pictures/videos to Picasa. I have also resumed coding – 3 patches and a plugin in a day is a good start. My exams are near too (starting ~September 10), so there would be a bit pause on coding at that time.

Update: I’ve permanently deleted it.

Technothlon 2011 Question Papers

Posted on July 18, 2011 in Education | 5 comments

I participated in Technothlon yesterday and the questions were amazing, the marking scheme too. Never thought of using Euler’s equation in such a way! For those who weren’t able to participate or their partners took the question papers, I have uploaded a scanned copy of it. It contains some signs, answers, wrong answers, drawings etc. made by us, please ignore that.

Trip to Googleplex

Posted on June 12, 2011 in Announcements, Pictures | 2 comments

Helloe folks! Did I tell you about my Google Code-in achievement? As a part of the prize, I also got a chance to visit the Googleplex in Mountain View, California! Yay! And I was there from June 5^th to 11^th and had loads of fun touring the Googleplex, talking to Googlers, getting Google Goodies including the Bugdroid, buying Google Schwag and what not.

Google Code-in Grand Prize Winners Announced!

Posted on February 14, 2011 in Announcements | 17 comments

Google Gode-in 2010 Grand Prize Winners have been officially announced on the Google Open Source blog. You can view the list here (it is ordered by last name, you can view the rank-wise list here in which I’m 5^th).

Google is inviting 14 participants instead of the pre-announced 10 to their Google Headquarters in Mountain View, California. This would happen somewhere in May. Anybody whom I could meet?

Exams

Posted on February 4, 2011 in Education | 0 comments

My exams are near and so I have to start preparing for them. Therefore, I’d be hardly coming online, or rarely doing anything on the net till March 11, when my exams would end. Adios till then!

Google Code-in Mentions

Posted on January 12, 2011 in Announcements | 7 comments

WPCandy has published a nice article on the bbPress plugin project seeing serious progress during the Google Code-in competition. The article talks about bbPress getting a lot of contributions in the Google Code-in competition in which I had participated.

Devils’ Workshop has also published an article on me. It’s a blog for which I used to do guest blogging, and I’m really happy of my name being there in one of the India’s topped ranked blogs.

Hindustan (Hindi) paper also published an article in their newspaper, here is the clipping.

2011: A New Kind of Forum Software is Born

Posted on January 11, 2011 in Open Source | 28 comments

2011 has brought the creation of a new and creative bulletin board software with it – bbPress, must have heard the name of it.. No? Weird. bbPress is one of the most simple and fast forum packages available out there. Until now there was a standalone version of it, but recently, efforts have been made to convert it into a WordPress plugin. Well, we can’t say convert because it is entirely written from scratch, we’re just duplicating the same functionality which you would have found in bbPress standalone, and adding some new bits which would make your forum look super cool!