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One Day Sun Workshop at Sastra University

Daksh 2008 – The Sun Workshop

Its giving me pleasure to write regarding the successful one day workshop at Sastra University.
The day started by 10.00 AM .

Myself and Bipallav started with some movie slides
Then I started the Presco on “ PARTICIPATION AGE”
the second presco contains Open Solaris,DTrace- done by Bipallav
in the afternoon session also Dtrace was continued for some time.
Basic scripts in DTrace
Then I did with 2 demos in Netbeans
Developing Class Libraries
Importing and exporting projects-java documentations-JUnits

Then we started the Lab session
1.Basic installation
2.Jumping from windows to Solaris
3.Dtrace
4.Netbeans

The Students showed more participation during the lab session.

Vineet was supporting us for the whole day.
Volunteers made all arrangements needed for labs

Totally 120 students participated ( around 71 from SASTRA and 49 from other universities ).

goodies and cds were delivered to the students.

Srikanth and Nikhil have arranged for good hospitality and transport facilities.
Dwarkanath worked hard in coordinating the workshop

Among my all workshops and seminars
I m feeling this one as an accomplished one, with more amount of students participation.

Hats off to Sastra guys.........

Posted at 02:46PM Feb 26, 2008 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Solaris Crash Course

I thank our ECE Students who finished this crash Course succcesfully

Posted at 08:37PM Jan 04, 2008 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Tech Demos

hello all,
In this month three tech demo sessions have been
scheduled.

1. Venue : Communication Lab ( 5th Block-Ist Floor )
Kalasalingam
University
Date : 3.01.08
Time : 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm
title : Participation in

code for freedom
demos : Solaris Jumpstart installatiopn
Quiz
Free
Belenix
and
Solaris
CDs for the participants
Person in charge : Ram IIIyr ECE

2. Venue : Seminar Hall
Kumaraguru College of
Technology, Coimbatore
title : Sharing Knowledge
Date and Time : (will be known soon)
demos : Open
Source
Open Solaris
Standards
Communities
Participation
quiz
free utilities
Person Incharge : Vivek.T ( Final Year Mechanical)

3.venue : Kamarajar
College of Engineering, Virudhunagar
title : Open Focuz
Date and Time ( plz check it with :
Silvia_biotech@yahoo.co.in )
demos : Introduction to Open Technology
Person Incharge: M.Silvia Rubini ( Final Bio Tech )

encourage ur friends in near by colleges to
participate in these sessions

Posted at 03:44PM Jan 03, 2008 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Softwares in Hand

hello all,

here are some simple steps install softwares in
solaris--to people who are new to
solaris..


just get into the
solaris4you website


In that page download the software u want..
Then here is an example

If you want to install
JPlayer
Downloade the file jplayer.zip

unzip the file using

unzip jplayer.zip

Then after the extraction is done
perform
jar -xvf filename.jar for all
jar
files

Then run the jplayer.jar file in BIN
directory....


This may be a very simple one....so only i have
already mentioned ( those who are new to solaris...can
make use of this )

Posted at 04:36PM Oct 03, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Exploring Code for Freedom-Support and Guidelines

CODE FOR FREEDOM


hello all,
Last Week We had a Good discussion on "Code For Freedom-Guidelines"......Our MCA students are interested in registering for the contest.


Mr. RAM GOKUL explored about Communities...And explained how to actively participate in it.
Selvan collected the list for registerations

I fired out the open solaris project packs....
We made a demo on how to download the utilities.....

As they are first year PG students we demonstrated how to use Belenix and we distributed some CDs to staff and students

CODE FOR FREEDOM

Posted at 05:32PM Sep 30, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Code for Freedom Contest

Sun has announced the Code for Freedom contest , on the eve of India's 60 th year of Independence.This is an open source  project contest for students (Graduate/UG)belonging to all colleges in india.

Here is an article in Hindu about it.  describing the importance of the contest.

The contest was launched this month and will last till 06' Febraury 08 .This basically aims at contributing for five major projects,

Open Solaris,

Contribution can be done by solving bugs. search for bugs and try fixing them.

NetBeans.

 Project GlassFish

Contribute in terms of code, or documentation or bug fixes.

Open Portal

Portlets, Bugs, RFEs, Documentation

Apache Derby

 Contribute in terms of code.

Here are the rules.
Register for it here  

Here is a forum which you can join and contribute. For queries contact codeforfreedom-AT-sun.com

There are a lotta prizes like (Laptops, USB sticks,iPods , Tshirts etc).

Participate and win laurels!!!

Posted at 03:27PM Sep 25, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Balasubramanian Visit to our College

It was a Great Presentation given by

Dr. Balasubramanian, From National Informatics Center , New Delhi.


He talked about " The Impact of Open Technology" and explaind the Various
Featutres of the Open Source Softwares..


Let me Upload the Photos and Prescos ASAP

Posted at 07:05AM Aug 05, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Sample Photos

Posted at 05:51PM Aug 02, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Second day in PSG

The interesting happenings of second day in PSG…

I went to the Lab by 9.00 Am (Great…No one was there)
I waited for 1 hour Mr.Nataraj and around 20 students came…
Ramya was on time…

Then Ramya started with introduction and explained the campus ambassador program.

Then we went on “ how to use Solaris?”
We demonstrated in the projector. The students followed in their systems…
Then I talked on How Application management is superior in solaris when compared to Windows..
Then Difference between SCSI and IDE…
I talked about RDMA (under which the accessing of SWAN and the smart cards.we showed the smart cards)

Then Ramya continued with the Community aspects and
How to join that…
What r the uses…
Etc…

Then I continued With Sun Studio ( the slide that I have already sent to You )
They asked questions on
1. Solaris Volume Manager
2. Performance analyzer
3. Parallel Processing
4. CMT
5. Etc…

Then I sowed them Netbeans……

They argued with us regarding the difference between netbeans and Sun Studio..

Thus the session ended by 12.45…

Mr.Murali thanked us
Mr.Nataraj asked us about the NIC Problem...

Posted at 01:13PM Jul 01, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

First day in PSG.....

Here are the interesting happenings of the first day in PSG…

I reached Coimbatore by 3.30 AM in the morning..
Mr.Gowri Sankar who guided me to reach PSG

Then Mr.Syed Ibrahim,Lecturer in CSE Allotted room for me..

Ramya was waiting for me there…

We went to meet Mrs.karpagam, Lecturer in Cse,PSG…
She provided as small refreshment….
And sent two lab assistants with us to help us…

We went to software development lab….
We tried to install Solaris…There followed the monitor Problem….

We took the CPU (Which has the DVD drive) to the OST lab…
Then I went to IT Dept…
Consulted with the Sys Admin….
He forwarded me to Mr.Murali(doing his M.tech there ) and mr.Saravanan (who is nominated for CA)

We tried with Solaris Build 64…. Installation was successful
We checked it with the Projector and media player…

Then we sat for a round table discussion
There we discussed a lot regarding the happenings in both of our college…..
We planned for some tech days in both of our colleges using Guidelines shared between as…

Then We went to M.Tech (PG Laboratory for IT)
There around 11 systems has Solaris….

They showed me some latest installations…
I Met Sankar and Akila Over there (they fully dedicate themselves towards Solaris)

Then came Mr.Nataraj…
I went to his room…
I presented some slides to him (as he is not attending the program)
Some of the questions shooted by him are?
1. Why asp is more used than jsp?
2. Why Sun Thin rays are not multi-application oriented?
3. Why SDM creates many problems?
4. What is SCJP?
5. How to get assistance for organizing this course?
I gave them some prescos regarding the SCJPand Learning Solaris….
I gave them Netbeans CDs….

Then Mr.Gowri sankar helped me in taking Printouts for the contents (which can be distributed to Staff members) he said he wil be helping for photocopying it……

Posted at 01:08PM Jul 01, 2007 by prashanth in Personal  |  Comments[0]

Summer camp ended

All,
The Summer camp on Solaris And Netbeans Was promoted in a good manner

I thank all for their support in bringing this as a great success.

The project topics given to the students are
1. Optical character Recogition
2. Face recognition
3. Complete Office Automation
4. Students Information Tracking System
etc..

I thank the following members

1. Mr. Sudhakar Gummadi, Director, Corporate relations
who made proper facilities at free of cost
2. Mr. Narayana Moorthy , System Admin
For his help in delivering notes on Solaris 10
3. Mr. Ram gokul from III CSE who explored Java
4. Mr. Mahesh from II MCA - People Contact
5. Miss S.Sindhu from III IT
Who gave tech talks on dTrace and gave some sample coding exercises
6. Mr.vijaya Kumar Lecturer CSE, for his off-site guidance

and all the participants for their encouragement.

We made the first day as the Sun Tech Day
watercans and Pens were distributeed to the students..
Files,CDs and many goodies...

I Thank Mr.Gopal from III IT who took care for the refreshments for the participants
Solaris was installed in all the 40 systems in the Open Source Technology Lab by conducting an Install Fest..

Suggestions are always Welcome

Posted at 08:43AM Jun 12, 2007 by prashanth in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Summer Camp is going on

The summer camp has been started successfully...

Events happened today

1. registration process
2. Solaris installation demonstration - shown to the students
3. students installed solaris in their systems
4. Installation of netbeans
5. Students played Temple of Sun for 1 hour..

Utilities given to the students

1. File
2. Pen
3. Netbeans CDs
4. Presentations on Java Learning- about 100 Presentations
5. Presentations on Solaris Learning
6. Complete reference guide for Netbeans

Mr. Sudhakar Gummadi,
Director ,
Corporate Relations ,
Inaugurated the camp in the morning

Mr.Narayana Moorthy,
System Administrator Explained the installation and other features of solaris

Refreshment was given to all students..

suggestions are always welcome
Photos will be uploaded soon..

regards,
A.Prashanth
Kalasalingam University
India

Posted at 11:16AM Jun 06, 2007 by prashanth in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Netbeans Pojects in Kalasalingam Universuty

Here comes the open registeration for Netbeans projects..
Those who are interested to undergo a project in Java Using Netbeans..
Please register in TIFAC-CORE, Kalasalingam University

Posted at 10:46PM May 10, 2007 by prashanth in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Difference Between Operating Systems Solaris - Linux -Windows

Friends
here are some links to learn the difference between OSs

Go through the following links

1. KeyEvent differences between Solaris and Windows
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS
2. Performance difference between Windows and Solaris 10g
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS
3. A Comparison of Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD Kernels
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS
4. Guide to porting from Solaris to Linux on x86
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS
5. Solaris Vs Linux
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS
6. DIFF BW LINUX AND WINDOWS
Click here to proceed
SOLARIS

Posted at 08:52PM May 10, 2007 by prashanth in Sun  |  Comments[2]

Learning Netbeans is easier

k friends
Learning netbeans is going to be very easy here...

Go through the following links

1. Introduction to Developing General Java Applications
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
2. Setting Up Projects
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
3. Importing Existing Java Source Code Into NetBeans IDE 5.5
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
4. NetBeans IDE Guide for JBuilder Users
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
5. Importing a 3rd Party Project as a NetBeans Free-Form Project
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
6. Advanced Free-Form Project Configuration
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
7. Creating and Editing Files
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
8. Implementing Stand-alone Persistence in a Java SE Project Using NetBeans IDE 5.5
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
9. Building Applications
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
10. Running Applications
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
11. Debugging Applications
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
12. Packaging and Deploying Desktop Java Applications
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
13. Configuring the IDE
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
14. Using CVS in NetBeans IDE 5.0
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
15. Working with the Java DB (Derby) Database in NetBeans IDE
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
16. Connecting to Databases
Click here to proceed
NETBEANS
17. Tuning JVM switches for performance
Click here to proceed

Posted at 09:23AM May 07, 2007 by prashanth in Sun  |  Comments[1]