Anish Mohan

GRID-CON 2010

2010-10-14T20:31:00.000+05:30

National Conference on Smart Grid

GRID-CON 2010

Jointly Organized by IEEE Kerala Section and CDAC, Thiruvananthapuram
Dates: 29 to 30 October 2010
Venue: Hotel Mascot, Thiruvananthapuram

For more details on conference / tutorial registration, schedule details, speaker details, check here

Tutorial on "Smart Energy Meter" on Day 1 and "Interconnections and Communications of Electric Vehicles and Smart Grids" on Day 2 are some attractions

Flash Builder 4 (Flex) video tutorials

2010-07-10T13:07:00.001+05:30

Flash Builder 4 is used to develop Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) and content using open source flex framework.

Get Flash Builder 4 from here.
Adobe Flex video tutorials are available for both online and offline viewing. Download Adobe flex video tutorials spread across five days,
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5

Project files for respective days are available here

Get Flash Builder 4 books,
Flash Builder 4 and Flex 4 Bible
Flex 4 Cook Book

'anishmohan tweets' now available on Nokia Ovi Store

2010-06-03T04:25:00.000+05:30

To get my recent updates and tweets download 'anishmohan tweets' from Nokia app store. http://store.ovi.com/content/41680

The app will update my latest tweets and blog posts.

Advantage: To follow my updates, no need for two clients ,twitter+blogger. 'anishmohan tweets' is too good choice

Saving Volvo bus

2010-01-26T11:07:00.002+05:30

(This is in reply to post appeared in TVM Life:- http://tvmlife.com/saving-volvo/)

In democratic country, govt levy tax and use it for the welfare of poor and infrastructure development.

So, why are we skeptical for volvo to run within city premises. Start medium-long distance services connecting cities. This will make profit. Then, they can start city services.

Onida ad dialogue-"Envy of neighbours". Make morning/evening shifts of volvo (towards TVM city) just for school students (St Marys, Pattom GHS, SMV, Manacaud, Poly etc). But they have concession, how do volvo benefit?

KSRTC is not just about volvo. They have other buses too.

Here comes the case of infrastructure utilization by bringing more volume (Virgin mobile setup). What matters is ppl ride in KSRTC.
Since regular buses have rush, ppl use self owned vehicles. No one to blame.

When school children move to volvo (Capacity of volvo is higher than regular bus), other city bus can be accessed by others.

Increasing more bus to volvo fleet invites more loss. Better business model is "Make people ask for more volvo. We too need to travel in AC buses". This will bring profit to KSTRC.

This is similar to Apple or Microsoft supporting college students. Once they graduate, they will be well versed in what they do in college and on job they will ask for Apple or Microsoft as the case may be.

Sports bring people closer..

2009-12-20T20:15:00.005+05:30

Last week I was travelling in a bus, and met a tourist on her way to Kovalam. She introduced herself as coming from Florida and on a business-pleasure trip to Kerala. She is basically from Venezuela. Suddenly I went blank as I didn't know the geographic position or anything of Venezuela. Later came to know from her, it is North of South America.

On my way back, I thought why that country doesn't strike me in first place? I know about Brazil, Argentina and even heard about Copa-America football played over there. Playing football makes these countries known to everyone. We know better what Maradona do in Argentina and RO's in Brazil.

Every Indian cricket fan knows the stadium name, place, pitch and climate conditions of South Africa, Australia, and WI. Why? Because playing cricket between India and these countries bring people and countries closer over years. Every cricket fan of Australia, knew the ploughed pitch of Mumbai and bad days at Eden Gardens.

South Africans hosted IPL as if it was their domestic tournament. Such is the support sports make. Similarly we know Harare, Nairobi and Barbados.

It doesn't matter whether it is football or cricket. It is like marketing your own country as South Africans done it with their Safari Ride, and WI on Caribbean islands to name a few.

When a cricket match telecasts from Sri Lanka, you see monasteries and smiling faces. When a match was held in Mumabi after 26/11, you didn't see any terrorism, but people who moved back to normal life.

Such is the power of sports, which heals all wounds and bring nations closer.

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Traffic lights in Thiruvanthapuram

2009-12-07T02:43:00.003+05:30

It has been a nice move from the part of TVM traffic police to have traffic lights in place at the intersect of Nanathancode - Museum Road.

The KELTRON traffic lights are bright and visible . But it lacks timers. Pattom junction traffic lights have timers. It saves a lot of fuel rather idling the vehicle.

The traffic police too can sigh a relief, as they don't need to stand in dust, sun and rain without any gears.

It is high time to have a traffic light at intersection of Kazhakttom Bypass and NH 47.

KELTRON too can improve their traffic light technology from timers to solenoid. Timers are old fashioned. Disadvantage of which is, even if their is no traffic in the green lane, red lane people have to wait.

Solenoid technology changes signal as per the traffic volume. These solenoids are buried at the start of each lane and working backwards to 3-4 cell areas. This gives a nice picture of traffic volume.

Plight of roads/traffic in Kerala

2009-12-07T01:43:00.004+05:30

Pure drinking water is one of basic need of all living kind. JICA is one such agency that is helping Kerala to achieve pure drinking water to all. The pet name for this project is "Japan Kudivella Padhathi" (or Japan Drinking Water Project).

But in the name of laying pipes, they have made roads nothing but muddy puddle. Half the lane has vanished from NH 47 near Chavadimukku area. More pipes are heaped on the road side and moving towards Sreekaryam Junction. Already known for infamous traffic blocks over here, digging the roads will make matter worse. If the plight of NH47 is this, what can be said about the pocket roads of Thiruvananthapuram.

If I am right, the Medical College - Murijapalam road had been dug 3-4 months back to lay pipes. Same with the Arya Central School- Pattom Road and Pattom -Kowdiar Road. But still the road has not been restored.

These muddy puddles have been the death traps of two wheelers and night mare for pedestrians.

Public Works Department(PWD) is responsible for the road works in Kerala. If they are not, someone else. They will be based in Kerala, at the most. I am sure of that.

Why no poth holes in Raj Bhavan Road? Suppose, if President of India, needs a road travel in Kerala, those SLEEPING officials who can't repair the road in years, will repair the road in an overnight. How pity!

If they have the excuse for not having funds, which engineer/s sanctioned estimate of JICA project? Does he made estimates for laying pipes through air? Road reconstruction must had to be included in the estimate.

The pipes are being laid in city, according to some plans. So the road repairing officials too can come out with some plans to re-tar the spoiled roads at the earliest.

Or else, all city people will have the feel of the blood of innocent, when JICA pumps drinking water through it.

Why Kerala doesn't need a Volvo?

2009-12-07T00:18:00.005+05:30

The title is inspired from the superman movie, where Lois Lane got Pulitzer prize for "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman?".

It is nice to see the introduction of new Volvo 8400 buses as inter-city bus transit system under JNNRUM scheme. The buses were flagged off on Nov 17.

Then the inevitable happened. Mishap of KSRTC volvo near East Fort. All regional news channels gave a good coverage for the incident. Later officials confirmed, two window panes are damaged and just need Rs 50k per pane. So 'they' may have to spend Rs 1 lakh or more to repair it.

Person who favours Volvo say, those are AC buses, low floor, no hassle with rickshaw wallahs, clean, moderately priced and many more. But is it true? A window pane is just enough to make big holes in the pocket of already sinking KSTRC. If KSTRC is proud to have Volvo in its fleet, will they replace all TATA and Leyland buses? They are just opposite of what adores Volvo.

You can see quarter empty Volvo buses plying from Kaniyapuram- Kovalam, where as other local buses carry people hanging in foot boards? Still those buses run in loss. So how come Volvo bus break-even the cost, with high maintenance cost?

You may also say, people using cars will shift to Volvo buses and thus reduces carbon emission and city traffic. What is the guarantee that a Volvo will turn up as per the schedule? If the bus is out of service, will KSTRC arrange another one to cover it up? Telematics is unheard off.

It is right time to ask, whether we need luxurious buses to ply less than 20 km or 2+ ordinary buses for the cost of one Volvo. Running cost per km for Volvo is atleast twice that of regular ones

What we need is just a basic transportation, where people can atleast travel without risking their lives. Almost all buses plying in morning and evening have school children hanging precariously on the bus. When you can operate regular buses at half the cost and half the investment, do we really need a volvo ac bus?

Last chapter of every deal closes with Corruption. Hope next government, won't dig anything out to screw the people behind the Volvo initiative. It is nice to recollect painting the green hi-tech buses back to red when government switched.:)

Great website for iphone app store information

2009-08-10T12:38:00.004+05:30

Came across a nice site for all information regarding iphone app store.

It lists all app details available in iphone store. The special feature is its random page option, which retrieves random apps.

[It is a wiki , in which iphone app developers themselves can post]. - This option is removed for the time being.

Some sample iphone apps

GeekCalc
Jaadu Remote Desktop

For more details:[ http://www.istorewiki.com ]- Changed to http://theapps.mobi

Hello World! in C

2009-07-05T21:09:00.003+05:30

/* @ author ANISHMOHAN */

#include "stdio.h"

main(){
 printf("Hello World!");
}

Hello World! in C++

2009-07-05T21:04:00.004+05:30

/* author ANISHMOHAN*/

#include "iostream"
using namespace std;
void main() {
cout << "Hello World!";
}

Hello World! using Java

2009-07-05T20:34:00.003+05:30

Print "Hello World!" using Java SE.

Source code:

/**
*
* @author ANISHMOHAN
*/
class Hello {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.print("Hello World!");
}
}

File name: Hello.java
Output: Hello World!

Welcome to my blog

2009-06-28T20:45:00.001+05:30

Hi,

Welcome to my blog. This is a test entry to my blog.

Nice to see you here. Except more over here, very soon.

Bye.