Check this out ;)

#define MAGIC “2acghilmoprs.@782C65173D5A1409B”
#define _(p,o,q) (t o#p[0])?(q)
#define __(p,o,q) _(p,o,t-q)
int main(){int t, i; for(i=17;i>0;i–)printf(“%c”, MAGIC[(((t=(MAGIC+14)[i-1])==’_')?62:_(.,==,63):_(@,==,64):__(a,>=,’a'+36):__(A,>=,’A'+10):(t-’0′))]);}

My Final Demo

Well , this is something which i should have blogged the moment after we finished the demo to parag but that day i have been quite busy packing things , travelling from blore to chennai and then to trichy

The demo went fine , and all the details can be read from taggy’s blog. I am not going to write how the demo went , rather what i felt during that time.

Well , as usual i came late that day at around 11 , and taggy told me that parag already came twice asking for a demo .
All i could think Oh My GOD, what a start !!! :P
Then we called parag for the demo and he asked us to show compose mail with an attachement. Of course taggy was showing the demo and i was explaning . I never knew i had a demo phobia but after the “WONDERFUL” first demo , certainly i realised that i am bad (in fact too bad ) in demos.

To make things worse , parag edited the python file and made the file attachement choose a different file . All i was thinking is about varadhan’s warning about 200% ( he made a math mistake there , there is nothing like 200% :P) sure about the thing to work , threatened to throw us out of window if record did not work ( though he was not serious or was he? ) , and what not .

Somehow we recorded and had the script in front of us in the shell while discussing things with parag. I checked the script line by line and did a small playback in my mind. I was not able to do this and answer parag at the same time. Then parag asked us about the playback :O

Well it did take sometime for the log and and otherstuff , and since we had a time delay of 1 in our shell , things were a bit slow , it took some 5 seconds to open the compose box and i think i almost skipped my beat at that time :O. But the playback was perfect and parag mentioned that looked real neat :).

Then he asked us a few questions and gave us a few pointers to work upon :) . The same day we got a evolution jacket from parag and were working on improvements in the recording.

The old saying goes “All is well that ends well “. So a great demo , a nice jacket and above all , a working record script — certainly i cannot ask for more :)

RECORD is WORKING :D


Ask me one question
Will RECORD work perfectly ???
I will never say YES :)
The milestones in development of record are
=>Totally screwed up first demo .
=>Blasting review by varadhan after the first demo :( where we had no answer for any of his questions :(
=>Partial output in the next demo .

And finally there is one soul which says record is working fine and in fact mentioned that it is a great job :P

“”" nags, sp2hari, taggy: till now, the record works very perfect! what a great job! “”"

I still think lavi is lying :)

We have no clue how it worked .
We were expecting a lot of feedback like this :P
1. Hey it gave a seg fault
2. My comp hanged , i had to reboot again
3. I had to kill at-spi-registry (varadhan wont accept this i suppose ) to stop recording
4. Hey i got a empty python file ,
and lots and lots

All the above things happened when we showed a demo to Dr. Harinath . Surely that might have been one of the worst demo in NOVELL history :P

But varadhan said a first demo is always likely to fail and asked us to make lots of changes within two days .

Second demo went fine with no major issues . except for the compose message :( .

We know where the bugs are in the current record script . Luckily lavi did not notice them now i think .
I am sure soon he will file a bug against the recording :) .

Ok hope this is enough for now . Have to get ready for the bugs :P. Got to check it in ubuntu :)
Here taggy is asking me how record worked fine ??? . He is pretty sure that it will fail and he is surprised to see the record work fine :P

about:mozilla

Type about:mozilla in your url bar.

Your will see this

And so at last the beast fell and the unbelievers rejoiced.But all was not lost, for from the ash rose a great bird. The bird gazed down upon the unbelievers and cast fire and thunder upon them. For the beast had been reborn with its strength renewed, and the followers of Mammon cowered in horror.

from The Book of Mozilla, 7:15

Dont know why but i liked this one.It symbolises many things in life and it all depends how you interpret it :).

Now dont think i am talking about the funda about the life blah blah blah …….
I was just mentioning about how firefox has conquered ( yes it has ) IE .
IE is one of the worst products from windows . As such windows sucks but IE is worse :).

Tomm have sem pracs so will see later . Bye Bye