sarvesh_nikumbh

Since July 2010, I am pursuing my Masters with specialisation in mathematical modeling and simulation at the Centre for Modeling and Simulation, University of Pune, India.

More information about me can be found here: http://cms.unipune.ac.in/~sarvesh

Also, for this summer of 2011, I am at INRIA, Grenoble - Rhone-Alpes research centre as a summer intern.

An awesome explanation of - The HTTP headers - What your browser actually does?

A taste of Google's Open Source Contribution -
http://blog.0x1fff.com/2009/12/35-google-open-source-projects-that-you.html

• handling webpage rendering to what extent? (basis - time and effectiveness)
• what steps to follow to have a consistent webpage loading time; the factors playing important roles in the process, etc. (basis - time, again, but from the end user point of view)
• using and letting use the page design patterns/some specific, very effective nuances which help you hit the bull's eye from a developer/designer's point of view; ( basis -  in general developer/designer community ethics)

and such ...

Found a few good reads, some tools helping you move in that direction among other things. I will share these readings and available tools here for all as and when I find time.

A Stopwatch - to measure the downloading time for webpage. It comes with some more important features that can be looked at the site.

A good answer to the popular question amongst web developers - "How do you answer the Internet Explorer 6 question?" - A Universal CSS ?? 

More to come!!

Please visit the KBCS-NLP blog link to know about CDAC Mumbai's Ajax Transliteration API usage. It's simple to use even for the beginners. [ Blog link : http://matra2.blogspot.com/2009/09/xlit-cdac-transliteration-api.html ]

Visit the Xlit editor or download the XlitHindi extension available for OpenOffice.org Writer, in order to know its transliteration efficiency.

Please mail/comment your feedback/suggestions so that Xlit serves you better day after day!

Happy Indianising your way !!

Information about CDAC Mumbai's transliteration service is now available at www.cdacmumbai.in/xlit
Also, the editor is available at www.cdacmumbai.in/xlit/editor 
It now permits free-flowing usage of various punctuation marks while writing. That simply means, you can now write a word with its punctuation following it and then hit a space to get it transliterated. Say Sarvesh" gets transliterated to सर्वेश" .

You can have a look at our new transliteration service (currently supporting english-hindi transliteration) and give it a try here . We also have an Open Office extension for you which will be made available soon.

As you will know, it is under testing phase, not yet released on the web. Feel free to post your suggestions/observations  here or you could also mail them to me.

As of now, for the editor interface, we are NOT supporting browsers on Windows Vista yet. It should work with Windows XP/Linux using Firefox version 2.0 or higher. Also there are issues with IE version 7 and higher. Any one working on Windows XP + IE (versions 6 and higher), please do let me know the status. It would be of great help.

You can expect the editor to work well with hindi origin words. For example:

आपके सुझाव हमें ज़रूर लिख के भेजें | फि़लहाल यह 'एडिटर ' केवल अंग्रेज़ी से हिन्दी लिप्यांतर में सहायता करता है | आने वाले कुछ समय में आप इसमें हिन्दी के अलावा मलयालम , तमिल , तेलूगु , एवं कन्नड़ में सहायता कि अपेक्षा कर सकते हैं | आशा है आपको यह सेवा लाभदायक होगी |
-(powered by xlit)

It is not expected currently to work similarly well for words typically originated from other languages like english, marathi etc., though it may for some.

Have a nice time transliterating ... !! :)

Well, well... It's been a haitus!! Precisely 34 weeks, as I am prompted by LJ.

All these weeks have seen a lot of eventful haps at my end. Grossly a workshop, a product release, a national-level conference and a prototype system release on the cards. All of them have been great experiences all together. Some how missed all the time to blog.

Willing and now trying to be a regular at blogging with updates !! C ya soon.

It's been very special this time for many reasons to smile and cheer.....

A surprise celebration arranged, at 00 hrs, by Office cum flat mates kicked off the starting clock ticks of Nov 11. It was my B'day. The first, away from my own family, but with a new family of CDACians. Very grateful to all of them. Enjoyed that completely!!

Remembering the phrase - ...coming a full circle, has now started making sense, though I did understand it earlier, it's now that I am experiencing it. And what I would like to point out is - though you complete the circle, you will always have shifted by some quantity from the exact point.Thats where it tends to be a spiral !! You may not notice it, but it always will.

One stark difference this time was that,unlike large no. of calls (to wish) that i usually receive from friends, this time it was multiples of them wishing together on a call. A nice switch over of sorts!! [:)]

What I always want to say is - All days can be special, if you want them to be !!
It's just a matter of choice !!  [ :D ]