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Like any premiere college in india ,NITT has its own share of successfull alumni too and what better way for students to learn than from the men who actually did it .

Ever wondered how it should be talk/interact with people who passed out a decade ago and are up their in the ladder where you aspire to be ? better if they went to the same school you are .The flow of knowledge and guidance is almost infinity !.

It is in that desire and an attempt to create such a vibrant community for NITTians ,by them and for them that we have pulled up NITTians.com

While at the outset its going to aggregate all the blog/journals of NITTians we also want to use it a platform to showcase the things that happen in the campus and the things our alumni do in the real world !

It has already arrived and yes its hosted now at my shared hosting and not sure how its going toscale up .It would be great if any our rich :D alumni can sponsor some good space ! .We have built this portal involving quite a few tools from python,php and memcache .We surely expect this site to pull up some bandwidth An ordinary ultracheap wont do the work ! it has to be a host thats good like the mediatemple or such hosts ! ther are surely going to be costly .But where there is a wil there is a way .

Iam sure with time we will find a solution to this as well ,dont panic if the sites goes down for a few hours ( shared hosting has it issues) and we will come out great soon,pretty soon infact !

keep watching NITTians.com .

Special thanks to alagu sundarrajan and suren for their enthusiasm,support and promised support and also the design guys who made up the logo and poster for us :) thank you guys

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need i say more ?

:-)

http://www.theyagar.com/2007/05/09/six-gone-two-left/

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Yeah ! this sem which is just about winding up has been the best of all the sems.This is how a typical CS dept at NIT,Trichy goes .Every day 2 classes and 2 lab sessions a week and the rest … .But this time we have had atleast 40 classes per subject and networks crossed 50.I know classes are a pain but the best part of this sem was the projects.

The hallmark of any good college is in the projects end up doing .I remember cs guys at iit’s doing projects that are at the very heart of computers.Be it with operating system or networks,compilers .For most part we worked with the same algorithmic implementations and blah blah but this semester it was decided not to have any lab sessions for internals.It will only be a one project demo at the end and the topics were carefully chosen so that they were not implemented.

Wel compilers lab had to be the best where we spent time learning automata and compiler compiling tools ( lex and yacc) so much for these that we have been using lex for all kinds of parsing :-) .

The networks landed us in to implementing RFC’s ,for those who don’t know what an RFC is ,it stands for request for comments.Where you propose a standard/protocol and let people comment on them and if many agree it goes on to become standard.

They are great because since they are not implemented,you cannot steal them and hence you end up learning at the very heart of networking ( network layer and not application layer) .

I had RFC 4501 which talks about implementing a DNS URI .Its defining a resource retrieval protocol for dns information .Just like how http:// is a resource identifier and similary ftp:// and it also brings with it parameters type .

for eg :

dns://google.com?type=mx dns://google.com?type=A is a query and you should be able to get the mail exchange records and Address records of google.com .I know its not difficult accessing these informations but getting to write your own code for this is a huge learning curve definitely .

As usual i started off with python and first thing i had to do was parse the dns://string?type=s & class=in .

The default parser for URL parsing somehow doesnt work for dns:// although it works flawlessly for http,ftp and smtp .Even cheap hacks in to the library didnt work so you start with lex to parse your input string and then find the type and schema to do the rest .

Doing this was a lot of fun as it was pretty much for the first time that i got to work on the networking basics,really .

And with Hari it was even more fun.His was RFC 4952 .It was to implement internationalized mail . for eg,

say i could type <ramesh in tamil font>@server.com and it should be sent to ramesh@server.com .This is fun isnt it ? he got to work with mail system in unix and also sendmail .

I guess these are some of the advantages you get when you study in one of the top T schools in the country ( Atleast that was what people tell us every year) .

And not to forget the apple stall that happened in campus this sem :-)

It has really been a super duper sem this and hopefully we will have a better one next sem with only project to go .

And for the news ,i am sure you guys must have heard about Iyer’s ( Yeah the same 96lpa guy ) crack at ACM kanpur .It was a record ,no team except his have ever managed to solve entire problem set in an ACM match and also that it was never in this history that IITB ACM team was ever beaten on indian soil.Both these things happened and Iyer said ” Killall kills all”

The results can be seen here http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/regionals/ViewRegionalStandings.asp?ContestID=866

The code for dns uri implementation is ready but a little ugly really ,will put it up when i clean it up for final code submission and yeah ssk is planning to start a code repository :-) in lan

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Last post on this blog reads back almost 15 days back and thats something that has never happened since 2004 :-) .So what really happened ?

well, with cat around the corner i need to slog and slog real hard .In between was in bangalore spending with my gal ;) and my grandfather passed away last weekend and the college mid semester exams . All this can take so much out of you .I plan to spend this weekend just laxing :)

And start another weekend with lots of more work and yeah iam yet to apply to cat ,thanks to the ever so hardworking administrative office in college :-) .It takes a week to get your grades printed !!

and in between watched a movie too,Dil Chatha hain and Notebook .and did i tell you iam buying a macbook later this month :-) .

And as such i havent done anything that is worth writing for more than week ,may be i should post a few aptiÅ› or verbal :D .Tech seems a little distant now atleast for a while .

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Do you know a guy who lives in NIT,Trichy,a former google intern ,coder,a guy who was woed by microsoft and google for 48,50 lpa’s , do you know a guy who is the first indian to get in to Google USA ( first time i have heard someone saying Google USA) and also he has a salary of 96lpa and above all someone all the girls drool over ? (ROTFL !!! ) .

If you have not, meet the guy here

http://lifeofkarthik.blogspot.com/2007/08/googleco-in.html

I must tell you even iam yet to meet the described guy although the guy described and myself have been roommates for more than 2 years now and sit on the same benches in classroom most of the time .

Its funny how much msk has imagined,not one of them is true ( alright some are ) ,its true that he has given his interview at Google and is a former google intern but MS and G fighting for him is too much i say :-) and even more is stanford and MIT call ,i know how much he is preparing for GRE :P . I don’t know how long this is going to stay but as long as it does have fun and for those who want to read it ,i have copy pasted it here as well http://theyagar.com/code/iyergoogle96lpa.txt

Add to that ,Prasanna’s google mentor actually commenting on the blog post ;) rumours make college life a lot of fun but this is one was way too much considering that he is still jobless :D .

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