[glug-t] Beagle' developer @ Hacker Crackdown

Beagle,is the free desktop search tool, for GNOME/KDE
developed by people from Novell. Varadhan, a lead 
Beagle developer was at Hacker crackdown.

This is what Varadhan, had to say about Hacker Crackdown
in his blogs at http://www.gnomebangalore.com/.
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[Hacker crack down - Good to be a student!!]
Submitted by vvaradhan on January 24, 2005 - 8:14pm.

After my Linux Bangalore talk on Beagle, which was
sort of not so technical presentation, I wanted to
explore further in to Beagle to prepare a good rather
a hacky presentation that shows different hackable
aspects of Beagle.

Boarded the train in an usual way, 5 mins before the
arrival time and that too in Bangalore Cantonment
station. Had some fruits and was modifying/adding some
slides in the train. Shreyas got his presentation in a
floppy and we managed to put it in to the laptop.
Intel P4 is rather slow at times or always(?).

We were received by couple of NITT students, Vishnu
and (forgot?!). WOW!! they had a nice guest house with
AC, TV, Water heater and neatly maintained rooms. At
around 8:00AM, we were served with breakfast and had
some puris with aaloo (really tasty!!).

Hemant, one of the core co-ordinators of the event,
took us to the famous Octogon computer centre. Hmmm...
all have TFT screens with good configuration. Shreyas
and Nagappan downloaded some files for their
presentation in to a thumb drive.

I was feeling damn sleepy as didn't have sleep neither
in train nor in guest house. Took photos of the event
and finally after lunch and mono session, I started
off with Beagle.

I really don't know how time passed off, it was around
5:00 PM, Poornima buzzed me on stage about the time.
Hmm... I started my presentation around 3:15PM..
Students showed a great deal of interest
(patience???).

Then, I started the hacking session on beagle by
explaining a Filter code. Later, we decided to write a
new filter, on stage. I showed them how easy it is to
hack beagle by writing a filter for pascal programs.
Voila!! the filter worked!!! and claps.... From the
claps, I could imagine how much they had enjoyed the
session. [can be otherwise too...:(]

Later around 7:15 PM we bid farewell to the students
and boarded the train. I immediately went to sleep,
hmmm.. had nice sleep and continued it even after
reaching my home today morning. Woke up @ around 12:00
noon and reached office around 1:00 PM.

Will post the pictures later this week!! Damn!! got to
by a Digital camera...
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Cheers
Muthu


Lets Hack Octave-Gtk.
http://octave-gtk.sourceforge.net

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