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Foss.in - The Indian opensource event ended on 8th December. The turnout this year was lower than last year despite changes in event structure [Event had an unconference model this year] The first two days of the conference - called Project Days, were dedicated to specific opensource projects. The project days was aimed at making people contribute to OpenSource rather than just being the users of it. We had OpenSolaris, OpenOffice, Mozilla and Linux project days. The main conference started (Late as usual) on 6th Dec with a speech by Atul Chitnis. The main conference had a mix of Lightning talks, BOFs and HackCenters. I was busy(?) with the demos in the booth and so, missed a majority of the talks. I could manage a talk on IndLinux, a talk on OpenSolaris (by Jim Gresanzio) and a BOF on Glassfish. I had an opportunity to meet a variety of people from various backgrounds. A few of them wanted solutions for their business needs, others wanted to evaluate the open source tools. Overall, ...

This video is an edited version of The Simpsons programme. Homer's manufacturing facility is outsourced to bangalore and he travels to India. How he adapts himself to Indian environment is the gist of the episode. Hilarious. Edit1: Full version of the simpsons video can be found here - The Simpsons 1717 Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore

When my friends and I planned for a trip to Nagarhole, we couldn't get much information on the places in and around of Nagarhole. I hope this post will serve as a guide to anyone who plans a trip to Nagarhole. View larger map

In one of Jonathan's posts , he revealed how the name Java was arrived upon for the programming language. Let me give you a little more info about the team before jumping on to the email. James Gosling was the lead engineer of the Green Team (Team that created Java) and in picture are some members of the Team. The e-mail below is reproduced verbatim From: James Gosling Date: August 24, 2007 8:16:58 PM PDT To: Jonathan Schwartz Subject: How was Java named? The story goes like this: We needed a name. We had been using "oak" (which was selected essentially randomly by me), and while the team had grown attached to it, the trademark lawyers ruled it out. We had lots of email debates about names, but nothing got resolved. We ended up in the awkward position where the #1 thing stopping us from shipping was the name. Our marketing lead knew someone who was a "naming consultant" (I don't remember his name, but he was great). We could neither af...

This is the speech given by SteveJobs , CEO of Apple, to the students at Stanford. An inspiring one.