Monday, April 18, 2005

Product developer's Orientation Programme

TWINCLING Society conducted a week long Orientation Programme for the Product Developers working on the various projects, beginning April 11, 2005.

The objective of the programme was to bring up the developer's to speed -
. in C and pointers
. compiler tool chain (gcc)
. debugging tools (gdb)
. standard POSIX api
. good programming practices

There was a special mentoring session conducted on -
. memory management
. memory leaks (causes and how to avoid them)
. memory allocations (stack, heap, data segment).

Coding session was conducted along with theoretical discussions.
The concepts were highlighted by executing the debug binary inside
gdb. As a result, each concept was visualized and verified in terms
of memory allocations, costs and associated trade-offs.

The discussion on 'scope' and 'extent' of variables and types was
particularly interesting.

The week long programme was covered in 20 hours.

Saturday, April 09, 2005

OpenSource technologies seminar at MESCO Institute

TWINCLING Society conducts OpenSource technologies seminar at MESCO Institute of Computer Science and Management.

The Institute has very well equipped computer laboratories.

The TWINCLING team was introduced to the principal by Mr. Sofi, head of CS Dept.

The OpenSource technologies seminar was attended by students of the CS Dept. and the faculty members of the Institute.

The session was very interactive with the students enthusiastically clarifying doubts
and participating in discussions.

The tone of the day was set by the presentation on opportunities in OpenSource.

Linux system multi-media capabilities (audio, video) and business applications were demonstrated to a very eager audience.

Linux development tools and Linux as a platform was compared with other platforms. The demonstration of the various tools was done as well.

The entire TWINCLING Team was felicitated towards the end of the Seminar.

The team thanks the MESCO Institute students for making the entire event a great success and a memorable one too.