Sis Received this gift from her hubby recently :D LOL

when switched on, this baby doll crawls in a funny way saying "Mommy Daddy, I Love You" LOL

I joined Twitter on 16th November 2008, since then i was known as @mageshcse, the name did fetch me a lot of fame online :P, i chose that name when i was in college training as a Computer Science Engineer(CSE), now you know why i chose that name. Also used the same name for my website, facebook, flickr.. and for many other things personally. It has been more than 600 Days and now i feel the time has finally arrived..for trying out a new handle. So thought of all possible names that would suit me and finally ended up choosing @iMagesh, by just adding a 'I' prefix to my name. Lemme Ask myself.. Why is that 'I' for? well, it could be "Innovation" as in all apple products(Imac, Iphone, Ipod..), i for Internet, interesting and what else can you think of? And in Tamil, we use "i/aye" to express the excitation, happiness.. So these are the few random thoughts that struck my head as soon as i changed the handle (iMagesh)

Later received a lot of interesting comments from my tweepals(pals on twitter), you can Check them below

 

 

 

 

 

 

So Do you like my new Twitter Handle?? Pass on your comments below :)

It was really awesome to meet few of my best tweepals on a FriendShip Day.

people from left to right (on the photo) - Magesh, Lakshana, Bala, Antonioanbu and Javeed Ibrahim.

Javeed doctor called us two days earlier to friendship day(1st Aug 2010) and told about his visit to chennai.. a quick tweetup was planned, especially to meet our doc Mr.Javeed Ibrahim (one of our best tweepal)

On Friendship Day, we all met at the Spencer Plaza, chennai, had fun

Surprisingly this was my first meet with lakshana and Antonio, Really enjoyed pulling each others legs :P. We were hanging around the place untill 2pm, then we all came back home when lakshana refused to treat us at KFC :D

Had a superb Friendship Day

i've decided to use posterous for personal blogging here after..

Sapling Project is a nice intiative by two innovative people Satish(@bombaylives) & Ranjeet(@ranjeet_walunj). The motto is to make planting & growing trees a habit among people, by giving away Free Saplings to individuals living in colonies and apartments, asking them to plant, nurture and also monitor the health and progress of the sapling for atleast two years. Isn't that great?

 

Why should we do this?

We all complain about the heat, rapidly changing climate and also the natural calamities like Tsunami, earthquake and so on.. Have you ever thought on, what is happening to our planet "Earth"? Why are we sufferring these disasters? The answer to all these questions is "Ecological unbalance", a weakening in the Earth's ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere means that global warming is happening faster than we thought. Its all due to the lack of Trees and Plants(to absorb the carbon dioxide).People cut down many trees to build house, business etc.. but they forget to plant the trees again.

We've learnt and talked more about "The Global Warming" for more than a decade, but what have we done so far to save our Planet? i heard you say 'nothing'. So People, its high time we stop complaining and start acting. Come on Lets work for a cause

To Breathe Easy, Lets Plant more Trees

 

So What should i do now?

 

Its very Simple, Lets support the Sapling Project, which is happening in more than Five cities in India. The next Sapling Project Drive is Scheduled for June 6th 2010 in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kolkata and more.. Click this for more info

• Individuals: Can be a part of the event, support by either planting or Donating the saplings
• Journalist's/Blogger's: Be there with us this sunday in any of the above mentioned Cities, write about the event in your blog/journal which might help spread the awareness
• Photographers: Can be a part of the event, click pictures, share it with friends and relatives

If your City is not mentioned above than you can take the intiative, connect your friends and start The Sapling Project Drive in your City. Contact Satish or Ranjeet for more info

 

Are you in Chennai?

Yay! Then join me & Rajasekarn this sunday (6th June 2010). Participate, plant saplings or donate

 

Chennai Venue 1:

Isha Project Green Hands,
No. 5 Moolachathiram,
Perumal Kovil St, MMC Post,
Chennai 51
Time: 10:00 AM

 

Chennai Venue 2:

Peter's Colony
Royapettah
Chennai - 600014
Time: 3:00 PM
View it on Google Map

We need volunteers now (Chennai), If you are really interested then contact me,

Magesh
phone: 9940305209
twitter: @mageshcse
(or)
Raja
phone: 9840727371
twitter: @rajasekarn

Whenever i meet my friends, i tell them about the benefits of being on twitter coz i've been exposed to loads of benefits right from the day when i joined twitter until now, connecting new people, converse and learn a lot from them every day.

This blog post is about one such awesome Opportunity that i got via twitter, Meeting our Minister of State for External Affairs Mr. Shashi Tharoor.

We the people of chennai often organize tweetups to connect new people and have fun, in the month of march two of our tweepals (twitter friends) @shalinipv and @narayananh by chance happened to know that Mr. Tharoor, yes The Minister was in Chennai and soon they got in touch with the people at Mr.Tharoor's office. The Most Shocking thing was, We have all been to government offices and have had the experience of running from pillar to post. And here we were, not even having to move out of a chair and being successful in getting an audience with a man of such stature (by just sending an email to Tharoor ji's office). Here was the true power of the internet. A tweetup was organized the next day ( 19th March Friday at C.P Art Center Eldams road ), for the chennai people to meet Mr. Shashi Tharror

The next day eve, we all were gathered at the venue to meet Mr.Tharoor, Apparently the honourable minister was running temperature and others had advised that this meet be cancelled but to our surprise, Tharoor ji decided not to cancel the tweetup inspite of his illness. And came in little after 8pm having taken a few minutes break after his previous engagement. The next 45mins was action packed, with many people asking intelligent questions to Dr.Tharoor. He was so elegant, the way he answered every questioner caught me by surprise, How can a man in such a position could talk like that, Hats off to Mr.Tharoor ji

I've heard a lot about Dr.Tharoor on twitter but this is the first time that i got an opportunity to meet and know him well.

I will never forget this awesome day in my life. Thanks to all those people who made this wonderful tweetup possible :)

CouchDB Apache CouchDB is an Opensource document-oriented database, accessible via a RESTful JSON API. Ad-hoc and schema-free with a flat address space.

Replication synchronizes two copies of the same database, allowing users to have low latency access data no matter where they are. These databases can live on the same server or on two different servers, CouchDB doesn’t make a distinction. If you change one copy of the database, replication will send these changes to the other copy.

Here is a step by step documentation on how i did the Replication (CouchDB)

1. Checked out the from their svn and installed it on both the machines (local and remote)
2. Replication in Couchdb can be done via both, Futon(web interface) and Curl(command line interface). You can access your Futon when couchdb server is running at http://localhost:5984/_utils
3. For manual Replication (copying all documents in a couchdb database) use Futon or curl
Using Futon: open http://localhost:5984/_utils on your favourite browser and click on the Replicator Option in the Menu to the right

Next type out the needed datas in the input field, source database name and target database url. see below pic


Click on the button called "Replicate" to start with the replication process

4. Using curl:

   curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -d '{"source":"http://localhost:5984/mageshdb", "target":"http://192.168.15.2:5984/mageshdb"}'

5. If you want to replicate documents automatically, i.e whenever a new document is added/changed in the local server, it is replicated to the remotely synced server automatically. Automatic or Continuous Replicating is not available via Futon so using curl:

   curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -d '{"source":"http://localhost:5984/spulz", "target":"http://192.168.15.2:5984/spulz", "continuous":true}'

   A new parameter "continuous":true is added to the previous curl command, to make replication continuous or automatic
6. If you want to replicate documents from the remote server to the local? then just swap the source and target database in the previous curl command like

   curl -X POST http://localhost:5984/_replicate -d '{"target":"http://192.168.15.2:5984/spulz", "source":"http://localhost:5984/spulz", "continuous":true}'

Note: but this continuous replication cannot survive a server restart (feature might be added in couchdb's future release) so hav to run the curl command everytime when the server is restarted

Try this, and comment below

Do u like playing Farmville on FaceBook? well i dont, but loved the fun in playing Real Farmville (Planting Trees in real) On 26th-Jan 2010, Chennai's Chapter of "The Saplings Project" was organized at Dr.MGR's School for the Hearing and Speech, Ramapuram

Early Morning when i woke up, thought only a few(may be 1 or 2 ) would be turning up for this event(planting trees) But when i reached the venue, was suprised to see a lot of people which includes the NSS volunteer's from nearby college (Alpha College) and few from another organisation lead by Mr. Mullai Vanam and Mr. SugaVanam. By the time we reached the venue these people had finished digging pits and ready for planting. 

We also went around the school and found Puratchi Thalaivar MGR's House in the front (behind which the school is being constructed ) learnt a lot about our Dr. M.G.R's Past life as people were discussing about him :)   Later Then we started our action, to plant these sapplings, It was fun coz @Rajasekarn, @SandeepVarma also joined along with @Kiruba and me. We planted a sapling just then @sandeepvarma branded it as "The Tedx Tree" I felt really happy coz this is the first time,  i see myself doing a useful work on a Republic day   I really appreciate this idea of "Sapplings Give Away" done by people like sathish(@bombaylives), Ranjith(@ranjithwalunj) and SugaVanam. We all know that one day or the other our Earth is gonna end, becoz of these natural calamities like Global warming or Tsunami or whatever. But if we all join hands to carry out these kind of Sapling projects throughout India (later worldwide) Definitely we would hav a chance to save the world, making it a better place to live :) Friends do read about "TheSaplingsProject", An awesome intiative started by Satish and Ranjith, do share it with your friends and relatives. Scared after watching the movie 2012? Dont worry we still have one last chance to Save the Earth (pic's courtesy: )

 Hi everybody..! This post is to share my experience at the Open Source India Tech Days '09, actually i was there for the last two days but missed the first day ( not being able to bunk my internal assesment tests) I really enjoyed my time there at the Chennai Trade Center Hall. I attended the second and third day of this big event, so i will tell you about what happened there on those two days. On 13th March '09 i was really amazed seeing so many college students at the OSI Days hall. The first speaker on that day was Mr. Narendra Bhandari of Intel He was telling us about the Mobile Technologies and its future. He enlightened us with some knowledge about the Moblin (mobile tech from Intel) he also explained about the importance for opensource in todays Business. Well i did enjoyed his speech. The next speaker on that day was Mr. Rakshat Hooja, IDA Systems  who actually introduced us with the openmokku, an opensource mobile platform based on GNU/Linux. Then Mr. Thilak Kumar of Wind River, (google's android specialist) talked about the opensource mobile platforms and their importance in todays world. He also added some informations about the latest Handsets. And they had a nice pannel discussion expressing their overall thoughts about the opensource technologies.

 The audience out there really enjoyed their speech and started shooting a lot of questions which was answered by the pannel member untiringly At the same time concurently, IBM's workshop was going on at the nearby hall ( i was not able to attend it) Then i saw a lot of Stalls out there,  The Chennai LUG team had a stall , IBM , Lynus Academy, NRCFOSS & CDAC, IIT Mumbai and lots more (i dont remember well ) Then the last day of the OSI Techdays i.e 14th March '09 The first speaker on stage was a 14 year old kid ( well i should not address him as a kid because he possesses a lot of knowledge more than college students do) He was talking about his "Falling in love with FOSS, he shared all his experiences telling us how he made his hands dirty playing around Linux and the so called "Open Source Softwares". The next speaker was Mr. Gautam Sinha, CTO Times Business Solution Limited. He shared a lot of his company experience using FOSS ( well not about his commercial facts) He told about  why the Open Source is Consumed by the IT Management.. There was a lot of people asking questions to him about the in and arounds of the IT industries and Mr. Sinha provided a better solution to all of them. Then there was a hilarious pannel discussion by the Chennai LUG people, talking about different linux distros (Fedora, Debian, Mandriva, Opensuse,Gentoo, Ubutu & BOSS ).. Mr. Bharathi introduced Chennai LUG to the newbies and as soon as the discussion started they were about to start a flame war as to " Which is the best Distro" Some how they managed to end the discussion Mr.Bharathi said " Just Try what ever Distro is in your hand, and dont see which is the best" because every Distro has a similar base but one or two features may differ.. So we Audience had a nice time Then  Mr. Venkatesh kumar gave a speech introducing IBM's Lotus Symphony ( which is an office utility collaborated with openoffice, build on Eclipse ) Then soon after the lunch Mr.Akarsh Simha  had a interesting speech  about the Desktop productivity tools... He was telling about all the things that he loved in using the KDE desktop environment... he told about many interesting features about the kde desktop which made me to try kde that evening (well i havent used kde but using gnome for more than 7months) Then Mr.Bharathi of the Chennai LUG gave an interesting speech figuring out the importance of the LUG's in India, and what are the roles played by the lug's to help out linux newbies. He also told about the mailing list, and how people communicate inside the community via the mailing list. People were amazed hearing about the activities of our Chennai LUG, that they were quering people at the LUG stalls to know more about the LUG's Then Mr. Srivathsa of Dell, Mr Anil of Microsoft, Ashok krish of TCS and Mr. Shrinivasan of Cloudversity had a pannel discussion about the Career trends in FOSS, which was very much useful for the students( both school and college) Then Mr. Redhaun had a hilarious talk about the opensource business as well as opensource politics, He also shared  about his experience with foss , and the story of Compiere and Adempiere (an Open Source ERP) He also asked people to contribute to his projects.. He stated himself as a tech-mafia (thats the jovial part of his presentation) Then Mr. Ashok of TCS  was talking about Where and why Foss is used.. He also gave ideas for the students on how to decide before starting your career with foss. Then Mr. Lim kin chew, SIM university was talking about the FOSS in ASIA Thats how the OSI Tech Days came to end. We must actually thank LFY for making up such a essential fest at the right time. We also hope to have these kind of programmes to be held often around chennai. So I really enjoyed the two days at the OSI Tech Days ( Opensource Festival) If you also attended the OSI Tech Days programme or want to share something on it. Please feel free to post your comment below.