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Author Archives: varun

Mobivision Workshop 2011

Mobivision workshop has always been one of the top workshops by LUG. Unlike every year this year workshop was conducted on Android. Previously the workshop used to be on Symbian (Using Python for S60) . Day1 – Installation of eclipse and android SDK was done. Everyone installed and started there emulator successful. Hello World program [...]

Installing the Android SDK

1) System Requirement – Check whether your operating system supports for developing Android applications using the Android SDK. http://developer.android.com/sdk/requirements.html 2) JDK-  Download and install the Java JDK depending upon the OS and processor (32bit or 64 bit) you have. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp JDK 7 is recommended. 3) Eclipse – Download eclipse zip file and extract it. – [...]

LUG Open Talks 2011

3 Talks, 3 Interesting Topics Thursday, Friday and Saturday. (20th, 21st and 22nd of Jan). 1)20th Jan (Thursday) – Wikipedia & Open Information – By Prof K.P Rao 2)21st Jan (Friday) – An approach to algorithms for coding competitions 3)22nd Jan(Saturday) – Design Patterns commonly used Details: 1)20th of Jan – The first of the [...]

Slides for MobiVision ’10

These are the slides from the Python part of the workshop held 13th -14th September 2010. click on the link to download: python The slides for the remaining part of the workshop: pys60

Distributed Computing and MapReduce

Today I conducted a session on Distributed Computing. It mainly focussed on MapReduce and its open source implementation-Hadoop. The session first covered a brief idea of why we need to have distributed computing since everything is driven by need.Then It covered how a distributed file system works.It focussed on the Google File System.A demonstartion of [...]

Round-up on the search engines and a troubleshooting linux sessions

A talk on search engines and a troubleshooting session were the reasons for the gathering on the 25th and the 26th of February 2009. The aim of the talk was to give a brief account on everything related to search engine technology.It started with an introduction to search engines and then went on to tell [...]