Linux Desktop Testing Project

Hackweek in Novell (25-29/June/2007).As part of Hackweek I'm working on Test harness for the build service for automated testing, an idea of JPR ! I'm working with Srinidhi and Akhil. Lot of other ideas are there, you can grab it and start working on ... [More] it !I get lots of help from darix, bauersman and srinidhi in #opensuse-buildservice of irc.freenode.net. I thank them personally. I wrote a small HOWTO setup OpenSuSE Build System based on the info I gathered from them. [Less]

Mono ADO.NET now supports 'Remote Procedure Call' invocation, which boosts perfomance of accessing the stored procedure in MS-SQL or Sybase database.Check here - advantages of using RPC.

Good news* Linux Desktop Testing Project (LDTP) and GNOME Tinderbox integration work of Prashanth Mohan done through GNOME / Google SoC 2006 is now integrated into jhbuild system ! Thanks to Frederic Peters and Federico.* Firefox automation using ... [More] Linux Desktop Testing Project has been selected for this Google Summer of Code under Mozilla organization. Harishankar a third year engineering student of NITT, India will be doing the project under the guidance of me and Emily Chen of Sun, China. Thanks to Emily for her continous support.* LDTP debian packages are now available in Debian package unstable repository, Thanks to Kartik Mistry.* LDTP Tutorial documentation is available for download, please send your feedback to [email protected] few updates about Mono ADO.NET, will blog it later.Sad news* My father passed away (almost a month back). It wass very difficult to get the death certificate of my father and legal heir certificate in India, even after bribing :( I received all the government legal documents almost after 25 days. Junk system !!!* Linux Desktop Testing Project site hosted in freedesktop site is down for a while. [Less]

Nice time @ home with my parents and my family members ! Celebrated Pongal festival with my family members, though could not attend Mattu Pongal.Some rangoli pictures made by my wife and my mother in front of my parents house.

Most of the time, I'm working on ADO.NET for Mono. Started implementing all possible missing APIs, events, properties.Before 2 months, missing API's, events, properties of System.Data and System.Data.Common was more than 70 each. Today when I checked ... [More] its approx 10 and 30 respectively.Planing to start work on SqlTypes and SqlClient. Hope things will go fine ! [Less]

Hectic time, put all my savings in booking a flat in Electronic City, Bangalore. Thanks to Veerapuram Varadhan and Srinivas Ragavan for helping me to book this flat !Daadys Builders is the flat promoters. Seems they are doing lot of projects in ... [More] Bangalore. In India, most of the IT hubs are becoming costlier these days. Number 1 is Bangalore. Hyderabad, Chennai are on the way... Its really going to be difficult for others employeed in other fields (I mean other than IT field). [Less]