Monthly Archives: July 2004

Sessions@Exun : PHP by Mukul Sabharwal

A few basic and even advanced (for the well versed) lessons in my mother tongue, PHP.

I have certain obligations uptil this Wednesday, 28th July 2004. From then onwards, I am more or less ‘free for academic oppurtunities’.

The time and venue can be decided. Most probably school seems the best fit, you know something like after school, or Barista also works out. Depending on the audience ofcourse.

Preferable if students can bring laptops. Hmm.. I guess this is asking too much.

Anyway, post comments to this post for any more information.

 

Xaviers

No, we didn’t win anything because for winning, there’s this important clause that one must participate in the event, and we missed out on that little clause.

When we reached St. Xavier’s School after a 90-minute drive (and a lot of direction-asking on part of Mr. Goswami), we were told by their teachers that we cannot participate as we did not send our registration by Fax. We knew of this, and hence, two days earlier Hema Jain Ma’am had called up their Head of Operations and informed him of the situation. He had told her that on-the-spot registrations were allowed and that we need not send the form now. However, their teachers there did not care to listen. I called up Hema Ma’am and explained to her what was going on around here; since all their teachers had scurried inside, we got their President to talk to her on the phone.

This person was extremely rude to her on the phone and denied that their members gave any such information to her (outright lying), telling her that she must have misunderstood and that it’s not really his problem.

There was no longer any reason to stay there and talk to these people. I have never seen a school so insolently and disrespectfully treat a guest school, not to mention their teacher. They certainly haven’t heard the “Mehman Bhagwan� saying. I would like to request our Principal to ban their school from participating in not only all Exun events this year, but also all DPS events in general (and if Mukesh Sir permits, I’ll write her a letter myself).

I would also like to make a final note that at least three people, namely Sanchit Bhatia, Arjun Agarwala and Shrinjan Khosla had sat and prepared hard for this competition and it was very painful to disappoint them in such a way.

A highly disgruntled Karan signing off.

Proposed Schedule for Exun 2004

As was requested, I have prepared a schedulefor 2004, though the date is still uncertain. the Word document is up for download and may be found here, under the entry “proposed schedule”. I would have put it up here, but I don’t have access to exunclan’s ftp password and tripod does not allow remote loading.

–Nisheeth.

Earn your own pocket money!!

Is your pocket money not able to keep up with your expenditure? Now here’s an idea to utilize your brains for a ‘good cause’.

During the summer vacations I got to know about a site acting as an interface between programmers and buyers from around the world. Buyers (reffered to as webmasters on the site) post their projects on this site and programmers (like me) get paid for what we like to do best.

On my first project, I got $90 for a couple of days work. The amount (though quite a sum for me) was very small according to the webmaster I worked with!

The payment method was also very convenient. The site (namely Scriptlance) charged $2 for sending the cheque to my home and $5 as a commission. The commision was not a problem as the webmaster paid it for me!

My project was related to Flash Animation. But there are various other categories of projects that are present such as WebSite Designing, Flash Animation, PHP, Data Entry, Search Engine Optimisation, Content Writing etc. Webmasters post their projects on the site and lots of programmers bid on the project. Then the webmaster chooses the programer he thinks is the best and pays him to do the job.

Winning of the bid is a very important and not so easy task and having your own site is a great advantage (as I found to my expense).

Now to get more details and to start earning straight away all you have to do is to sign up (free)with Scriptlance by following the link given below : 

www.scriptlance.com

The biggest reason for getting quite a good sum for small projects is that most webmasters are of US origin and they count there money in dollars. Even if we get a cool Rs 5000, they see it as just $100!

I don’t know how many of you know about freelancing, but I hope that those who don’t, don’t think that I am joking.

Hoping freelancing won’t reduce the involvement of Exun members with the club,

-Abhijit

Programming Test

A programming test in C++/Basic will be conducted on Wednesday, 28th July for Class XI and Classes VIII-IX. The best ones will be selected as senior (from class XI) and junior (from class VIII-IX) programmers in Exun. The test will be held after school hours during stay-back. Existing programmers in classes VIII, IX and XI are requested to announce about the test in all the sections. The names of interested candidiates along with their class, section and email address should be given to any one of the following:-

  • Prateek Rungta (XII-H)
  • Nisheeth Sharma (XII-H)
  • Souvik Das Gupta (XII-I)

The details of candidates may also be posted as a comment to this message.

Exun Online!!

Can we have an online chatroom exclusively for exun members? It will be great if we could manage that. Exun members online can interact and share ideas with eachother even during holidays. Also online meetings can be conducted. MSN etc. cannot serve this purpose as every one then needs to know eachother’s id, include them,allow them….etc.etc.etc. No complications at all, just login and if there are members online start chatting immediately. We can have username and password to control entry into the chatroom. Do comment on this idea, folks.