I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last 8 years. It was a fairly complex piece of code and a completely unfamiliar territory for me. There was no […]
In the last few years, I met many women who were either on a break from their career in the software industry or were planning to take one. It’s not unusual to take a break from one’s career to take care of family, child-birth or for following other dreams and aspirations. I took 2 breaks […]
I have been thinking of doing a project in wearable electronics. Adding lights that blink on a skirt when I move seemed a good one to start. I had a white skirt lying in my cupboard. I got a Flora board, one Accelerometer/Compass Sensor and some LED Sequins from Adafruit. There are a few distributors […]
I have been a silent and pretty much a passive follower of Technically Speaking since the time they started. If you are wondering what’s that – it’s an email digest to help and inspire people to speak at technical conferences. You can either sign up or follow them on Twitter. Lately I realized that I […]
Yes! It was as easy was that! Although it took me one year to think and ponder upon the idea of creating a website, when I got down to writing one it took me one Sunday evening to create a static website as a birthday present for my husband. Here’s the link – http://kakkeshwar.net/ I […]
I attended womENcourage2015 at Uppsala University last month. First, I thank Google for supporting me to attend this conference. It’s a wonderful program by Google where they give women in STEM grants for attending technical conferences. Those who wish to apply please visit this link. The conference started with a Hackathon organized by Intel and […]
Around June 2014, I started organizing technical talks at my office. The organization I work for is not small and we do have a technical council that organizes trainings and an annual coding competition. The quality of many of the trainings are good. I personally did a series of trainings on advanced algorithms and data […]
After an year of starting Women in Free Software and Culture in India, I created a new group named Women in Tech Industry in India on Facebook. The trigger point was GHC India and Adacamp Bangalore last year. I had thought of creating a platform for women working in the IT industry in India to […]
It involved a crash with 32 bit optimized build of an executable which was running fine with 32 bit or 64 bit debug build and even with 64 bit optimized build. No crash with debug build, hence no debug symbols! I started printing out logs “inside this function : All looking good”. This exercise led […]
Who should join? If you are enthusiastic about FOSS and sometimes/always wondering why there are so few women in India contributing/working in FOSS, please do join. People in the meeting would love to hear your ideas and suggestions to include more women in FOSS If you are a woman and think that women in software […]