Today, I migrated my blog: http://www.rtnpro.com to Ghost. I was previously writing blogs and maintaining my static blog website using Nikola. I like Nikola for being a very featureful and powerful static blog generator. I find the ReStructuredText format handy when generating complex HTML, and especially, I fell in love with the custom RST shortcuts provided by Nikola. But, flexibility breeds complexity. Why migrate? A blog post should be simple and easily renderable in blog aggregators....

Last Saturday, on Jan 10, 2015, we had a Fedora 21 release party in Bangalore. It was held in the premises of Red Hat, Bangalore with the help and support of Archit and Humble, who are working at Red Hat, Bangalore. Registration for the event started from around 9:30 AM and slowly people started dropping in. Over 40 people had turned up for the event. We started the event at around 10:30 AM with Archit giving an introduction about Fedora....

Today, we had a Fedora meetup in Bangalore, at HackerEarth’s office. Although, there were only 4 attendees including ourselves: myself, Sayan, Ashwin and Puneet, we made the most out of the meetup. The meetup lasted from morning 11 AM to around 3 PM. Following is a summary of our activities during the meetup: Discussed about the upcoming Fedora 21 release Planning for a release party for Fedora 21 in Bangalore Ashwin shared his knowledge on embedded systems Puneet knows C++, so, we asked Puneet to start working with KDE and Qt A few bugfixes in fedora-infra: pkgdb2 and FMN Planning for a Fedora and open source orientation event in Ashwin’s college It was great to meet with like minded folks interested in technology and Open Source and hack with them....

try.waartaa.com has been live since January, 2014. We have got quite some signups and some folks actively using Waartaa. Thanks to our code level optimizations, which has led to storage complexity for channel chat logs dependent only number of unique channels being listened to. We’re also able to achieve good real time performace in our demo instance with ever growing chat logs. It’s time to publish some stats about our demo instance....

It was great that our proposal to speak on Waartaa at Flock, 2014 was accepted. So, I, along with Sayan went to Prague, Czech Republic last week to attend Flock. Flock was a 4 day event packed with loads of talk and workshops. It was like living in a dream at Flock. I was able to meet so many great people from the Fedora and Open Source community. Day 1 The day started with an opening note from Matthew Miller, the Fedora Project Leader followed by a keynote by Gijs Hillenius on “Free and Open Source Software in Europe: Policies and implementations”....

What is Waartaa? Waartaa or wārtā is a word in Hindi: वार्ता, which means to communicate. And that’s what waartaa is for. Waartaa is a web based IRC client as a service and it facilitates centralized logging, idling functionality, unique identification across multiple clients and a rich UI for awesome user experience. Waartaa is open sourced under MIT License. The source is at https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa/ .You can download, fork, customize and setup Waartaa as a service anywhere, be it a single user laptop/desktop, server for your self and your friends....

I have been contributing to Mozilla for some time now and so, I got the opportunity to attend Mozilla Summit 2013 at Santa Clara. Contributors from all around the globe turned up to attend the Summit which was going in parallel in 3 places: Santa Clara, Brussels and Toronto. Finally, I met Mathjazz at the Summit. We had been working for a long time on Pontoon and were communicating over the internet....

Well, it’s been quite some time since I last blogged. There have been a lot of things happening at my end and amidst this I totally dropped the ball on updating my posts. As it is said, it’s better late than never. Let me summarize what happened over the past couple of months. Good bye Transifex, hello Goibibo I quit #Transifex last January (2013) and joined Goibibo. Goibibo is one of the products of Ibibo Web Pvt....

Lately, I found out that Django’s TransactionTestCase leaves test data in database after the test case is executed. It’s not until the next execution of _pre_setup method of a TransactionTestCase instance that the database is flushed. This is troublesome when tests are run with Django Nose’s test runner with REUSE_DB =1. An easy fix to this is to customize the TransactionTestCase so that it deletes the test data on exit. I wrote a simple wrapper around Django’s TransactionTestCase and extend it to write other transaction test cases....

My proposed talk titled Develop for an international audience got selected for Pycon India, 2012. It’s time to start working on the slides. I am thinking to use rst to write my slides. Also, I have booked by flight tickets for Pycon Thanks everyone who voted for my talk.