The ‘Google Summer of Code’ code period began on June 17 and it’s already one week into it. Prior to the beginning of the coding period, I went into the depths of the darkserver codebase. In the current version of Darkserver, the link present in the libimporter are hardlinks and it is pretty well visible on Github So, I removed the urls and the values from the libimporter and made it configurable via config files....

It was worth trying to sit down with pen and paper and sketch out the compete workflow of Darkserver. I got the idea to try out this stuff from Vivek’s blogpost. Though, I could not get hold of a board but A4 did the job for me and it is really proving out to be helpful. .. slides: ../galleries/random_scribblings.JPG ../galleries/random_scribblings2.JPG

The Google Summer of Code 2013 results was declared on 27th May 2013, in between my semester exam so i had no time to devote until the end of my semester exams and /me returning back to my home. With the beginning of the 2nd week of June, I started to hack around with the project, Darkserver. The project is available on GitHub. That week was pretty much a reading week rather than coding week as I had to go through all kinds of documentation....

.. image:: ../galleries/gsoc.jpg :align: center It’s better later than never. It’s been two week since the Google Summer of Code 2013 results were announced and I am glad to say that I got selected this year. I will be working on Darkserver Improvement under Fedora. One can see a draft of my proposal here. My mentor is Kushal Das and i am really helpful for helping me out in the whole process both in code and application....

This was legendary quote given by “The Joker” in the movie The Dark Knight. I was never a fan of this quote, until, I realized “The Joker” parted the right message, not for all cases but Yes this quote does hold true for certain instances. Choose your students wisely. :P