Krishna Bharadwaj

I have attended a number of Fests in different colleges, participated in events like Programming competitions, Online Collage etc..

Today, I got an opportunity to judge the Online Collage event at Avalanche 2010(BMSCE CS/IS Fest). Could see some really nice work from participants. It was a little difficult to judge which one to select for the second prize :-)

When I participated in these competitions, I used to be a little disappointed when I did not get any prize,but today I was convinced that winning or losing completely depends on the taste of the Judge :-)

Watched the much awaited movie of the year 2009 yesterday, undoubtedly it was the best! Had watched a number of movies before this.. Luck, Love Aaj Kal, London Dreams.. All of them were *BAD*, Rocket Singh was OK, keeping in mind that there was something different on screen rather than same old stories portrayed in a different way. I did watch a Kannada movie, Manasaare, It turned out to be better than what I had expected.

I became a fan of STL(Standard Template Library) the moment I saw it. vectors, sets, maps, lists, stacks etc.. I could not have asked for more. I heard of Boost library from Madhu for the first time when he applied for GSoC last year. Few months back I came to know from him that Boost library will be a part of Standard C++ in the future.. Today out of curiosity, I had a look at it.. Its a lot more than that the STL. The full set of library is present here. Looking forward to using it :-). One fine day, I may say : "Boost is the secret of my energy" he he :P

Every year it so happens that a number of events come at once and I end up designing for most of them. It all started with Utsav 2006, I was very much impressed with all the design work and I wanted to learn it too. The first poster I made looked horrible :P and I had used inkskape for it.

All my previous birthdays were good! but not as good as this years'. 27th Nov 2008 was a special day! I knew it from quite sometime that I'll be in IISc for Foss.in 2008 on my birthday.. Yesterday I had plans of not going on day 3 of Foss.in because it was my birthday, Soon i had to ask myself this question.. "what will i do at home??" :P After sometime we were assigned some work by Pradeepto which made sure that i'll be attending day 3 also.

A workshop on GNU/Linux Kernel Development was organized by the IEEE Bangalore section in association with IBM ISL- LTC (Linux Techonlogy Center). The venue was Atria Hotel. Me, Madhu, Vattam, Sattvik registered for the event. Many others wanted to attend the event. but the registrations were over. (We were told that they received around 400 registrations for the event, but they had to stop at 100 odd because of many constraints).

Blogging after a long time, Don't know whether it was because of internals ;)

The All India Microsoft student partners meet was held in Goa this year. All MSPs were excited about it. Anil and Lakshman got the tickets reserved. We left to Goa on the eve of 10th October. The journey was awesome, Lakshman was the target as usual ;), kept teasing him through out the trip :P. It started raining at round 9:30, Lightning was more powerful than any camera flash ;) It was very good to see. I slept for a while and got up at around 4, we had reached Karwar by then. I could see the beach, it was probably the first time i saw some beach in the night, it was amazing.

Events started on day 2 of Shaastra.. A copy of schedule was given to all of us. We had a look at it to see what all events we could participate in. The Rubik's cube workshop was scheduled at 12, Code Breaker prelims clashed with that. We chose to attend Rubik's cube since we had missed the Network security Orientation program which was needed for Code Breaker. In the mean time samartha asked me to join him for Code Breaker prelims since he was alone.The questions asked were really nice.

Its almost 3 to 4 months since the Shaastra publicity team came to our college.. (Shaastra is the annual Technical fest of IIT Madras). Few of us had decided to come for it at any cost this year.. Since it will be the last chance to come as a student.

Many keep asking me this question, "How do i improve my programming skills?". I used to ask the same question to my friends who were good at it ( Not that i'm too good at programming now :P ) But i have definitely found certain places where one can enhance their programming skills. Before one gets started with these, it is important to have good knowledge of Data structures and Algorithms. So best would be to code all the lab programs we had in 3rd and 4th semester once again ;).. All the sorting techniques are very important!!