Karthik Gopalakrishnan

Review on Sleepless in L.A

Karthik Gopalakrishnan — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:43:32 GMT

Its been 2 weeks after the InfusionDev Sleepless in L.A event. It's time to talk about it. I really enjoyed the all night coding challenge on sharepoint. There were just two people from Northern California for the event. I was suprised to know from Kurt that only 4 people were registered for the event. I liked all the presentations of Kurt and Shawn. I wish they gave some training. I was expecting to gain some insight on Business Data catalog (BDC). It was there on Kurt's slides and he never had time to talk about it.

The evening was fun, the event was sponsored by Microsoft. We had a ride on a Limo ( partied like a rock star). I was in a team of two. We were short of one person. We decided to get something implemented soon and hit the bed. So Paras and I wrote a Photo Slide show Web part using Flicker.Net Api from Codeplex. The idea was to contribute something to community kit for sharepoint in codeplex. We had an arguement whether to try silverlight with sharepoint or not. We did not win. The judges were looking for some sharepoint features like list, document library. Unfortunately, we did not leverage it. Kesav's Team won the prize. They deserved it for their idea and implementation.

Here are some pictures from the event.

such a big hummer Limo.

source: infusion sleeless

I should be hiding somewhere in the back on the right side.

source: infusion sleeless

Sleepless in L.A

Karthik Gopalakrishnan — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:13:59 GMT

I will be going to L.A this weekend to participate at the Sharepoint training event sponsored by InfusionDev. I'm very much excited about coding all night in sharepoint.

MySQL becomes Sun's Baby

Karthik Gopalakrishnan — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:00:30 GMT

I was eagerly looking for the IPO of MySQL the successful open source database, darling of all startup companies.
I was surprised to see the news this morning that Sun acquired MySQL. This seems to be a very promising acquisition for the Sun. I hope they are able to make good use of it . I also hope MySQL will provide better services to customer and remain free and open source.

Successful Visual Studio Developer

Karthik Gopalakrishnan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:53:39 GMT

I like Visual Studio IDE for the myriad of features and tools without which I can't craft ( I mean cut paste copy) code. The part that irritates me is when it crashes. I had the problem coming on and off since the Visual Studio 6.0 days and, guess what it still happens in 2008. I assume that if you want to be a successful developer like me, then you will crash the IDE couple of times .

Gabe swears like Zed

Talk to my LEFT coz you ain't Right !!!

Karthik Gopalakrishnan — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:37:05 GMT

I was reading the artilce Rails is Ghetto on Zedshaw's Blog. wow !! what an attitude. kudos on that

I haven't seen anybody excercizing their freedom of speech this much in blogosphere. I really enjoyed reading that article.

By the way, Talk to my Left coz you ain't Right is strictly copyrighted to my colleague Jose's daughter.