Time and Technology

Well; a blog post after almost 9 months. Its a big time isn't it. Several things happened during this eventful 9 month time-frame. Ups and downs and I was trying hard to make up my mind and to adjust to all odds happening around. I think I finally tamed myself on how to tackle these odds around.

"Never give up" - 3 words

Time is going at a pace which is in no way matching with my thoughts, yet I have to abide. That's the rule.
Technology too is going at a pace; not as fast as time though.

Past 9 months, I was silently watching all the happenings and neither get a chance to express any of my thoughts via blogs. I didn't even express or wrote anything about by Linux powered Nokia N900. What a pity. I feel ashamed :(. And I want to come out of this cage.

As the first yet careful step, The first I did is revamped my blog with the new (well - not sure when google added this) template feature. After an hour hard work, I came up with this decent look for my blog.

A few amazing things which I noted down during this cave age period are

• Google's App inventor for Android - Amazing web app for developing android apps
• Jume - A simple yet powerful social todo online app
• NitDroid - Android port for Nokia Tablets
• Google analytics - A comprehensive analysis tool for your webapp (Even for your blog)
•  Grails - Next gen web Java language I would say

More to come on each topics in next few days. Keep visiting.

Last night in Bangalore

After 6 wonderful years in Bangalore, I'm preparing for my last hours now. Tomorrow will be last day here.

I don't know what to blog at this moment. A lot coming to my mind starting from my very first day when I landed in Bangalore.

Just after my college days, couple of sad days in Chennai after that its like a dream when Lloyd called me and told me to come this tech world, I did not have any second thoughts. I came to Bangalore on a Onam vacation. First day to Office (Integer software solutions), I was nervous, obvious; first job :), met 4-5 mallus too the same day :).

After office hours only I came to know that I am going to stay with my company's CEO only, Ha stunned when i heard that, but when I met my CEO - Prince, I am amazed, em brassed, how can a person can be so enthusiastic, down to earth - yes he is like that only. Lloyd told me that we are taking up a project which cant be imagined by a fresher. A switching software which connects to ATM's, POS terminals etc. And my job was to tame Linux for this project development. I struggled initially, but again Prince took an hour session explaining how to be a successful person in life. Fly like a phoenix bird from turmoils. Lloyd provided my the technical support and Prince the mental support, thats more that enough for a person to survive.

ATM project we executed it, we were able to complete the one in no time. Unfortunately Prince was not able to find a client, thats a sad thing, though the experience we gained out of the project is enormous. Some more name I would like to mention here, Sheru, Jubs, Jeru, Gopz, Peeths... Yes it was a good team, no doubt about it.

After Integer, we; the same team except Gopz and Peeths joined Maintec technologies, I don't have any nice things to share in that company. But again we all the same team, the same commitment, another challenge of creating a Banking software. I decided to look out for a different choice for the first time from there. I worked only for three months and joined new company Fidelity on May-06

Fidelity Investments - Lot of things during the stay for 4 years. Ups and downs. I got lot of exposure, met very talented professionals. Gained a lot of professional knowledge from this company. Its was nice working with Fidelity. But there are some negative thoughts also which I did not want to blog it here. Every year was exciting, but I really enjoyed during my last 2 years working with one of the critical teams (I'm not going to mention the name here, hmmm financial sector, no wonder). During this period I visited Boston. It was one of the dream in my life. I enjoyed the period of 45 days during the stay. One of the things I never forget is my visit to Franklin Street (FSF - Free Software Foundation) HQ.

Yesterday I completed my tenure with Fidelity and relived from the job.

I'll be joining the new company Infosys technologies coming Monday (08-Mar-2010). Yes I'm excited about it. New company, new place. Haa I'll be joining at Kerala (God's own country) Trivandrum campus. One main reason about this excitement is that I can be close to my parents. Hmmm let me see how can I take care of them well.

Stay connected for more updates...

Android experiment with Linux 64

Today I took an initial look into Android in my Linux 64 bit. After some time of initial hiccups with my eclipse IDE (Galileo), I was able to install Android development plug-ins onto eclipse.

Repository to install android is

https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

After installing I tried creating a new Android project, but my Android preference complained me about my ncurses.so.5 (Unfortunately I have not installed i686 binaries of this library).

$ android-sdk-linux_86/tools/adb version

Rpmfind came to my rescue here in finding the rpm for me. Link to download ncurses.so.5 (32 bit) - This is for FC12

Download and try a yum localinstall

yum localinstall ncurses-libs-5.7-3.20090207.fc12.i686.rpm

After installing adb is giving me version

$ android-sdk-linux_86/tools/adb version
Android Debug Bridge version 1.0.25

Here is a snapshot of downloading android SDK through eclipse

After downloading create a new Android project from eclipse.

I created my first Activity like this

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.widget.TextView;

public class FirstActivity extends Activity 

{

    /** Called when the activity is first created. */

    @Override

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) 

    {

        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        TextView tv = new TextView(this);

        tv.setText("Shinus first Android test");

        setContentView(tv);

    }

After this start your emulator (I tried from console prompt)

./emulator -no-audio -avd Test_Console &

Here -no-audio is required otherwise it didn't started fine for me (Fedora 12 64bit). Please be patient. It took almost 2 minutes to see the android mobile desktop.

And Test_Console (Android Virtual Device) can be created using the following command

./android create avd -n Test_Console -t 1

List of Virtual devices can be listed by issuing this command

android list avd

After this I tried deploying the app I created using eclipse first from console. Here is the command to do that

./adb install /home/shinu/workspace/android-space/FirstAndroid/bin/FirstAndroid.apk

Here is the screenshot of my first android app running in FC12 64bit

Happy Android Coding :)

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