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How Manipal got its first Linux (fedora) server

Ankur Shrivastava — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:38:16 +0000

It all started with a failing Student’s Teacher Feedback System, designed by few fourth year students of my college, in oct-nov 2008 the system was not able to scale and everything was reverted back to paper, it was then when i was contacted by a teacher from my Department ( Information and Communication Technology ), regarding if i can improve it.

i asked DJ if he wants to join me and after few weeks of coding there it was Manipal university’s first (working) Feedback System, when the point of hosting it came, i was surprised to find Manipal University has no Linux servers, i mean come on no Linux what are you people click sys admins, then we decided to setup our own server in the department, thus giving Manipal university its first Linux ( fedora 10 ) server.

currently it just hosts the Feedback System, but we are planning to use it as local ( internal ) fedora repository mirror, we need permission from the WiFi provider ION because almost all the students use only WiFi and not LAN, last time we tried we were denied by saying ” You are a threat to our network “, lets see how it goes this time. we will also require people to manage it but i think this can be handled very well by LUG Manipal, some pics

Fedora 10 server in Manipal

PS – i am looking for a way to convince them that setting up a mirror will be helpful for them as well as students can anyone suggest me how to go about it??

JavaFX and Pong

Ankur Shrivastava — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:38:03 +0000

There was a workshop conducted by engineers form SUN in our college regarding JavaFX, which went quite well. I was planning to start with JavaFX but as there was no Official release of any Linux SDK, it kept me back but this semester i had to install Windows because of my University which wants me to use Visual Studio for my mini project this semester, so as i had Windows (unwillingly) on my system i planned to go and attend this JavaFX workshop.
From what i have learned in these two days, JavaFX looks promising for developing Rich Internet Applications, the language is somewhat a mixture of JavaScript and Java. With Type Inference , Audio/Video support etc making it very easy to use and create applications with.
In the workshop after every thing was over we were asked to make a simple application in JavaFX, so here is my code for a Simple pong game in JavaFX
the resolution is set to 1440×900 you can change it to your resolution in the code

if you cannot see the code see here

PS – as i dont normally boot into windows i dont think that i will do anything in it soon, i am waiting for Linux JDK to be released…….

First Manipal Facebook application

Ankur Shrivastava — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:16:56 +0000

I have made a facebook application on the lines of all those What ______ are you??? and its What MIT Character are You??? its written in PHP and is well the First Manipal Facebook application as fas as i know….. and well i am seriously waiting for more questions for the app so plz tell me if you have any

PS – Questions on the application were given by Ravi and Ankit, and the final character by Dinkar and Me……

Planet is now Online

Ankur Shrivastava — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:34:47 +0000

Me moving to a proper hosted blog also means that everything is on a proper server, So the good news is that Planet Manipal is now online , that means it will get automatically updated every 4 hours and i wont have to Update it manually which will make it more usefull and i have also noticed that not all Manipal bloggers are on Planet rite now, So if you have a blog and are intrested in getting the blog aggregated in Planet Manipal you are most welcomed just mail me ankur{at]ankurs[dot]com with your feed url, Name and Batch
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