Sketch work + Illustrator

Yesterday night I was in a mood to sketch some thing, bought a square ruled book and a pencil and started sketching up and here is what it turned out to be. I did had some help on how to draw though.

After sketching it through, I took a photograph and started doing some touch up with Illustrator and you can see how it turned out finally into a digital cartoon. Click on the Digital image to watch it clearly with a white background

Revving up

Its funny how I poke into every thing, recently I have been able to get my hands on with the android development, wrote few small apps on currency conversion and a few on how to use google maps with the android sdk (you need google apis downloaded for that).
Android developer guide is the place where you can get all the details on how to start and develop a small application.
Taking it a step further I also happened to look around on how the games in android are developed. Its exciting to know how basic games work, how multi-threading in Java helps in game looping - basically two parts game rendering and game updating at a constant FPS.

Also apart from android, I recently came across the news of facebook integration with the cloud services with heroku and had a sip of that as well, just the basic how to get started and here it is herokuapp/ the URL for that facebook application. You can find this getting started in developer area of facebook

How I Started Something from Nothing.

As referred in my previous post about the link about the 12monkeys. All I needed was an active internet connection. I never bought a domain name nor a mail server or any thing apart from the INTERNET CONNECTION (No FireWall, your system must be accessible from other location) which I presume every reader reading this would be having.

Well here is how I did it. Firstly test the installations of Apache2 , php5 and see that they are working just fine. Drupal 6 and MySql are other two things that are needed. With Ubuntu's software channels every thing is just so easy that you need not stress yourself that much.

Now that you have a server running up locally its time you give an identity to your system on the world wide web, yes, the Domain Name. Most of you might have already heard that it costs some thing for purchasing a domain name. Well guess what ? There are domain names which are also free of cost. One that I personally use is from dyndns.com services.

Next step is to bind the IP address if it is changing dynamically. Its no big deal there are tools which report your IP address to the name servers when ever there is an IP change or periodically. inadyn is one such tool, I am sure you can find others in the site dyndns.com.

Have fun hosting your site :)

A New Start. Almost Done with B.Tech

Hello, So Now Most of my friends are done with the engineering and awaiting for the degree. I'd be done soon.

Starting up a new thing some times could be a tedious task if you are constantly pondering over the thoughts that what actually could be of great impact.

One such effort I have started up a site and thinking of how should I make use of it.

The link to the site

http://12monkeys.dontexist.org/html

Sweet... Started with Cute (Qt)

Its like a life saver that netbeans included the qt application for c++ else god knows how much time I would have wasted figuring out the integration etc etc like I did for converting the obfuscated code in to OOP's code I know I know Bad practice but never mind.. :)

Now I need to figure out the power of Qt started learning about it. Lets see how much fruitful will that turn out to be

Kick Start with ubuntu - Linux

Hello every one..

As a hardcore fan of Ubuntu. I encouraged ubuntizing the community near and dear to me. So my friends the absolute new bie installation is here. Methods might be disturbing to geek gurus..bear with me..

People who have windows vista installed and want to dual boot with ubuntu Might face problems after installation but any ways here is how "crudely" I started to install linux on the my machines.

These steps are falling through my memory so if there is some thing wrong correct me..

1) Inside Windows go to control panel.

2) locate Administrative tools

3) double click computer management

4) click on disk management on the left side

5) you would now be able to see the list of drives. Make sure you empty one of the drive for linux. (NOTE: This I want you to do to avoid the partition making during installation)

6) say D: drive or E: drive.

7) 10-15 GB would be more than enough for ubuntu. now right click on the drive in which you want to install ubuntu. (The data on the drive is going to be erased and its irrevocable) select delete partition.

8) now you have deleted the partition creating empty space. Thats it do not do any thing. If my memory serves right you can see the empty space in green color.

9) Insert the ubuntu CD ( Request from https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ or download the image and burn it ). For beginners with almost zero experience I suggest to request it . You'll receive it with in 4 Weeks

10) After inserting it See to that the boot order is set to CD first.

11) select Install Ubuntu or if you want to just run the live CD select Try Ubuntu

12) The next few steps would be inherent and self explanatory. when you reach to a step where you are asked on which partition you need to install ubuntu. select probably the fourth or 5th option install on Largest contiguous space available

13) Thats it.

14) After installation open System>adminstration>synaptic and hit reload on the top. (internet connectivity is required)

15) after the process finishes search for your software suppose VLC . check the option and hit Apply on the top.

16) Have fun with Ubuntu Spread the word . Live FREE...

My Semester Project.. :)

This was done using Open CV , XLIB and ofcourse in my fav lang C++ :)

Computer Vision Rocks :D