2016

It was fun to volunteer for today’s sessions at Apache Big Data 2016. My responsibilites included helping the speakers setup their laptops and introduce them to the audience, keep time and remind them when time was running short, and finally helping out with the Q&A at the end. I also liveblogged the sessions via twitter and interacted with the speakers as most of the sessions were of my choice as the volunteer team had a shared spreadsheet on which we could choose our sessions in a first come first serve manner.

Toured Seville today thanks to https://www.feelthecitytours.com/en/tours/sevilla/ . They are an amazing company with a great tour of this beautiful city. Got to learn a lot about the city along with a bunch of great stories about the city. One of them was the story of Carmen (http://www.geocities.jp/wakaru_opera/englishcarmen.html) which is a pretty nice story. The TAC meeting was pretty nice and was followed by the TAC team dinner at a Tapas restaurant.

Reached the Melia Sevilla, Spain tonight. Pretty excited about ApacheCon. Am planning on finalizing the presentations about Allura by tomorrow night and discuss them with @brondsem on Monday. It was a long trip to Sevilla via Madrid and London with @gauravsaini03, he will be speaking about Apache OFBiz which is a complete enterprise solution. Met Dr Paul King(@paulk_asert), who is working on Apache Groovy and has worked on the “Groovy in Action” book by Manning publications.

Some journal publications require you to put author biography for each author with their pictures. For this I found the _picins _package. To install this package you can run the following commands sudo mkdir /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins sudo wget -O /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty http://ctan.imsc.res.in/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty sudo /usr/bin/texconfig rehash So, then you can use the following latex code for biography of an author: \parpic{\includegraphics[width=1in,clip,keepaspectratio]{figures/photo.eps}} \noindent {\bf Lorem Ipsum} dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit.

I’m excited about attending ApacheCon Big Data and ApacheCon 16 at Seville, Spain. Only a few days are left. Talked with my mentor at Apache Allura, @brondsem today about his experiences at ApacheCon NA Denver 14 and what all I could do at ACEU 16. We’re hoping for improving the exposure of Apache Allura within the Apache community and trying to get some projects in the incubator to try Allura. I’ll try to present a lightning talk and host a demo session for Allura at the conference.

A tip on using fsck when you are stuck in emergency mode. Whenever you are using `fsck -y` and it does not allow you to run because a certain device (say /dev/sdaX) is mounted, it does not mean you can’t run `fsck -y /dev/sdaY`. That is you don’t unmount that device.

Today’s git tip In .gitconfig: [url “[email protected]:”] insteadOf = gh: Now you can do, eg: $ git clone gh:kisielk/errcheck https://twitter.com/kisielk/status/793133952542191616

Just installed a new theme for the blog called P2. I’m using a child theme called Mercury. Also installed and played with a bunch of plugins. Want to try micro blogging and also live blogging during my coding sessions. Also, learnt that AJAX requests don’t seem to work behind proxies. P2 sends an initial Ajax request when you click on post from the front-end and it was failing, scourged the internet but couldn’t find a solution.

I have been learning about machine learning and data science recently. Coincidentally, I found this cool Youtube channel called Sirajology and I must recommend it to any one who has also just begun his journey on this path like me. Each video has a challenge attached with it in the end. I participated in two of them by submitting my projects based on the specifications of the challenge and they were featured on the channel.

I’m back to using WordPress from Jekyll. I followed David Lynch’s blog post to import my posts from the jekyll blog hosted on github.io Although, I did not use the plugins made by him, they might be useful if you had a lot of Disqus comments in your blog.