Students Corner - Projects for You

My thought on improving knowledge is to learn and share. By learning one gets theoretical and practical knowledge. This is the first level of knowledge. But this knowledge might not give enough insights and deeper understanding of the subject. Only when we share and discuss with like minded people, my brain stretches itself for a deeper understanding. This is one of the reasons why I share write articles and speak at conferences. In that way, I am purely selfish.

I m so much excited to talk with students, work with them and help them to build their career. In this section, I am planning to roll out few mini-projects. These mini-projects are nothing big. They are pretty much easier to do and these projects will help you to understand a specific area such as Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Network Security, Java, Algorithms and etc. Since the tools/projects are simple, it can easily be done forming a small group with your friends (and of course I shall help you through email). Remember simple things leads to extraordinary things.

If you are interested in taking of any of the projects, please do write to me (My Email).

My Inspiration

Who is my inspiration?

Who shall I consider world class reference point?

Who leads life being an example to others and yet thinks he has more to contribute to the country/humanity?

Who has relentless passion towards his vision and that vision being a noble cause?

Considering a person as role model and getting inspired is not done in a day. If you do it in a day, then probably you need to happy to say that you are "FAN" and not "DISCIPLE". The concept of taking someone as role model happens not in conscious mind but rather in sub-conscious mind. I tried to ask questions to bring out how one can take someone as inspiration. Though these questions make some logical sense, a role model is beyond these questions and beyond brain. A sequence of incidents or inputs fed to the brain and then travels to sub-conscious mind. From the sub-conscious mind, the role model enters directly to the heart, to the blood and to the cell.

We are having an opportunity to live with an excellent human being, a highly accomplished scientist, a great visionary, a most humble person, a patriotic son of Mother India, a life long teacher and what not.

Having born and brought up in down south village, this person achieved his dream and created a vision for the entire nation and young generation. He is role model to millions and millions of kids and youths - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

You can find his website dedicated to nation building here

Publications

I remember that I wrote something very long during my final semester and that was way back in 2001 and after that I literally did not write anything other than typing some Java code. My writing was poor (and even now it is) but I feel that I have improved marginally and the credit goes to Linux for You. I had an opportunity to write for Linux for You and as usual, this is one of the activities I used to do regularly. Please find the list of articles published in LFY.


1. Synchronising Threads (Dec 2004)
2. System Calls - Invocation and Implementation (Mar 2005)
3. Design Patterns (Jun 2005)
4. Object Creation and Garbage Collection in Java (Aug 2005)
5. Introduction to Linux Processes (Sep 2005)
6. Java Stack Frames (Sep 2005)
7. Logging Using Log4J (Oct 2005)
8. Loading, Linking and Initialisation in Java (Nov 2005)
9. Linux Processes - Part 2 (Dec 2005)
10. Security - Know the Lingo (Mar 2006)
11. SNORTing Out Network Intrusion (Jul 2006)
12. Linux Scheduling - Part 1 (Jul 2006)
13. Linux Scheduling - Part 2 (Aug 2006)
14. Linux Scheduling - Part 3 (Sep 2006)
15. XML Data Binding with Castor XML - Part 1 (Sep 2006)
16. XML Data Binding with Castor XML - Part 2 (Oct 2006)
17. JVMTI - Part 1 (Nov 2006)
19. JVMTI - Part 2 (Dec 2006)
20. Interrupts in Linux (Jan 2007)
21. Profiling with Netbeans - Part 1 (May 2007)

You can find PDF copies of all the above articles here. Hope you find it useful.

Contact

Of late, I find it satisfying and enriching experience to talk to the students. I feel that my learning is vast my interacting with the students. I strongly believe that knowledge was given to be shared and by doing that both the giver and receiver learn a lot.

If you feel that I can add value to your education, please feel free to contact me through my email. As Gandhiji said, the villages are backbones of India and I too feel the same. The great people who live in villages and small towns of Tamilnadu deserve more attention. My first preference is to add value to first generation learners. Having said that, I am also open to talk to students who are in cities. Soon, we will be rolling out this as an initiative across Tamilnadu.

On either case, please do drop an email.