Thursday, November 24, 2011

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Kathmandu University Visit

On Nov 23rd, 2011, Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon visited Kathmandu University to talk about Millennium Development Goals.


Program was conducted by Prof. Dr. Sanjay Nath Khanal of Kathmandu University



Welcome speech is given by Prof. Dr. Suresh Raj Sharma, VC of Kathmandu University

Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon started the presentation with two questions to think about:
1) What do you want to achieve?
2) What have you done for others dignity?




According to him, there are challenges like waves, but if we work together we can overcome it.

8 Millennium Development Goals
Green indicated good progress, Yellow indicates ok and Red indicates there is progress but lagging behind schedule.
Nepal is doing good in Maternal Health

Talked about mortality rate and income.

Showed how Norway reached current state by example of his family history.

One of his positive remark was "Nepal has achieved in 20 year that Norway took 40 years to achieve"


His Mongolia Visit

There children from waste management site is encourage to study and attend school.
His next visit was at Guatemala

There food problem was solved by creating women group
This time he is in Nepal

Micro Credit project successfully running
Maternity service center providing good service
Female Health Volunteers are main reason of Maternity service success
Also visited x combat person training center





His other initiative


A Child sharing his dignity story
A lady sharing her story for the first time in life



After presentation there was Q/A session moderated by Dr. Mahesh Banskota, Dean School of Arts, Kathmandu University



Questions
1) With all changes in the world, Is it worth to continue with the same goal? What is coming up next after 2015?
Ans: yes definitely, they are thinking of whats next.
2) Negative side of Microcredit, Women are more in pressure to work at home as well as generate income, that income is used by men. Is it happening good?
Ans: Microcredit has shown good result so it will continue
3) Global partnership at the bottom of the list. Why?
Ans: List is not based on priority.
4) What should be done so that men will accept gender equality?
Ans:



His final remark was "Don't wait for some initiative to start to work for you. It has to start from within."
Prof. Dr. Suresh Raj Sharma presents a souvenir to H.R.H. Crown Prince Haakon

At last, Thank you speech was given by Prof. Dr. Bhadra Man Tuladhar, Registrar of Kathmandu University.
(Photo Courtesy: Mr. Ankur B. Sharma)

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Friday, September 16, 2011

Experience 2011/09/16

From now on i am going to post here some of my learning while working.
Title will be in format "Experience [date]". This post is basically
for my future reference. It may not be organized at all and may be in
form of bits and pieces.

I was trying to run TIMSCore on my HP-MINI on Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I am
using dual boot system and my project file is in windows
partition(fat32). I wanted to use same files from linux as well.

I setup named virtualhost and changed hosts file. While try to open
the site, there was Forbidden error. Access right problem. Tried to
change through chmod 777, did not work. Found out access right is set
during mounting. Searched for changing it. Some suggested to change
fstab and set dmask and fmask correctly. But those things i found
really complicated. So what i did was changed the user who runs
apache. :) It is not a production server so i can do anything.

User ritesh
Group ritesh

Added to httpd.conf. Now its me who is running apache, I have access
to those files so forbidden problem solved.

Next problem was showing error "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
':', expecting ')'........". Thought it may be due to model so try to
regenerate it. Then there was another problem. When issued
$ ./symfony propel:build-model
error: [propel-om] Could not perform XLST transformation. Make sure
PHP has been compiled/configured to support XSLT.

It was due to missing xsl extension so installed it.
$ sudo aptitude install php5-xsl
It solved the problem. Generated model. Parsing error still there.
That error was in automatically generated admin code so i checked
generator.yml file. Missing space after : in full_name label was
causing the problem. Silly mistakes.

Enabled rewrite module and everything worked fine in normal mode as well.
$ a2enmod rewrite

So far so good. :)

#unorganized #notes #symfony #ubuntu #TIMS

Monday, September 5, 2011

RMT Folder Structure

I am swamped with files and i am feeling drowned. Everyday i create many many files like photographs, project proposals, source files, material for blog, jot down of a wonderful idea, solution of difficult course assignment etc etc. And also I need to refer to old files like completed project files, source codes i wrote in past, courses i took in past etc. As i am knowledge worker these file are everything for me. As i am switching from different type of tasks, it is very easy to forget the file location and put multiple copy of same file at different location. To simplify the situation, i need to define configuration of folders and simple process. So i come up with "RMT Folder Structure".

RMT Folder Structure:  
1) ArchiveBin - holds completed course and project files
   1.1) CourseStudy
   1.2) Project
2) Blogs - holds materials created for a blog like pictures etc.
3) CourseStudy - holds currently studying course files like assignments, course materials etc.
4) DevBin - holds currently working project files like source code, design documents etc.
5) IdeaLabs - holds new my ideas in form of sketch or text description.
6) MailBox - holds offline mail files.
7) MediaBox - holds different media created by me.
   7.1) rmtAudios - recorded sound files
   7.2) rmtPictures - dslr or webcam clicked photos
   7.3) rmtVideos - dslr or webcam captured videos
8) Personal - holds home and family related documents like financial status, loans, health files etc.
9) Prospect - holds prospective projects, conference, job etc.
10) Repos - holds svn or git repository of a project
11) TestRoom - holds source files used for testing commands, api, framework functionality.

Simple process:
IdeaLabs or Prospect --> DevBin or CourseStudy --> ArchiveBin
Future --> Present --> Past

I have made separate partition to hold this content.

I hope this structure will make my life little easer. If anyone has any suggestion to improve above structure or have totally different view to solve it then your comments are most welcome.

Saturday, July 23, 2011

Curious Boy

Curious Boy at Park Village. (c) RMT

Saturday, July 16, 2011

must do

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must
do." -Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Mirror Mirror

Mirror inside Mirror (c) Ritesh Man Tamrakar

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Full Moon

Full moon shot on Buddha Jayanti. © Ritesh Man Tamrakar

Sunday, May 15, 2011

KU Interns Selection

From 2011/05/06 to 2011/05/11, Different software company giants were at Kathmandu University. Their main aim was to attract good interns to their company. They presented about their history, client base, work area, technology they use, plus point to join their company and their expectation from interns.

List of the software companies:
1) IT Himalaya - Procit Nepal : ithimalaya@yahoo.com, ph 4415984
2) FocusOne Presentation
3) Language Technology Kendra Presentation
4) NepaSoft Presentation
5) Javra Presentation
6) Deerwalk Presentation
7) D2HawkeyeServices : http://d2hawkeyeservices.com/, ph 4435625
(Some of the presentation are missing in above list. I will add when they made them available to me)

I must say Mr. Manoj Shakya has done very good job by arranging such presentation for KU computer students. In my view, those presentations are very informative for the students. Now they have got some glimpse of industry they have been preparing for last 4 years. My one suggestion is DoCSE of KU should try to have such interaction for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students as well. I think it will motivate the students and help them prepare them-self for the industry.

On 2011/05/11, six companies except IT Himalaya also took interview of the students for internship selection. I don't know what question has been asked in the interview. But i am sure one think they might have looked for is how motivated are they to learn new things. All the best to all the students for their internship and bright future.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

PJClub My Photo



PJClub has announced winners yesterday of their photo competition. I did not win. Here are my submission to the competition. Wish me luck for next time. All picture are © Ritesh Man Tamrakar