Extreme Engineering

Ah ,had a terrific day today .After a week's of debugging and hectic work our project started working :). The Rpm , efficiency and production functions ran smoothly . I've completed my design of the machine stop circuit ,just need to bolt it with our system.I hope no debugging this time. Soon we'll embark on the next module which is the most interesting , the parallel to serial conversion and serial interfacing. Trying our best to complete it soon!!

Think about compiling your apps on your PDA ,rather than compiling them on yur PC.That's a reality i came across today.

Just as i get off my car ,Whoa!!! what i see is long queue of geeks,nerds pacing slowly into the entrance.Thanks to a terrorist attack a week earlier ,security's beefed up,multple security check points, body scanners.I managed to grab a seat in ballroom B in the last rows.Atleast they've put up those screens for the back seaters.
It all started with the keynote session,not to mention the CM's speech was most entertaining.Rafal Lucka...(whatever) ,that's hard to pronounce, the most impressive speaker , fascinated the audience by his absorbing presentations and rhetoric. He spoke on breakthroughs that would revolutionize computing .One of his best illustrations of breakthroughs was about RF-IDs and wireless electricity. Quoting him "Say you go to some grocery shop to buy cold drinks.You grab a coca cola and put in the shopping basket.Now you grab another one this time a pepsi and place the bottle besides the coca cola bottle.The coca cola bottle senses the presence of the pepsi bottle and it's(coca cola) label changes to please keep the pepsi bottle and i'll get you a 50% discount"....COOL aint it.
After the formal inauguration the sessions initiate.The first one i took was LONGHORN ,Microsofts new OS planned to be shipped by 2006.The speakers spoke on various enhancements and features that would make LONGHORN stand out of the crowd.Thanks to multi billion funding ,guess what the amount being funded on this new OS is more than the US government spent to put a man on the moon.All it's new features Avalon,Indigo and WinFs were demonstrated.The next session was PKI(public key infrastructure) by Rafal ,discussing all different methodologies of implementing the digital certs,identity authentication and stuff.The other sessions i attended were "Web application secuirty and INDIGO.

PDC was inaugurated today in Karachi the Beach City .The conference is being attended by more than 1400 developers from across the country.The conference will focus on latest Microsoft technologies and platforms specially Longhorn,Whidbley,Yukon. Speakers include IT industry specialists and Regional Directors from Turkey,Uk and the US,North-Africa