Academic Projects

These are really old projects I did as part of my BE course.

discussion forum

discussion forum

Discussion Forum is a CGI based discussion forum written in perl. It is modelled entirely on Yahoo groups with support for moderation of groups etc. Also has an advanced cookie based session management.

{i} Get it from here.

news alert system

news alert system

News Alert System, is a client-server system designed to deliver news headlines with relevant links to a GTK+ client. It also has primitive IM support. This was conjured up in no time as part of my Network Programming Lab. The server program needs mysql and the mysql client library.

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GINF

GINF is not frontpage

Ginf (GINF Is Not Frontpage) is a WYSIWYG HTML editor. It is written in C, based on GTK+ and uses GtkHTML for HTML rendering. Deepak and I have plans to continue development and turn it into something useful for common users. Lets see how that turns out. Watch this space.

{i} Get it from here. Check the Freshmeat.net project page for newer versions.

dPaint

dPaint

dPaint is a graphics package written for the DOS environment. It is written in C++. Its looks resemble M$ Paint. It is of absolutely no use if you aren't looking for a CG project for your VTU CG Lab!

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miniDrafter

miniDrafter

This was one of my first projects made specifically for the VTU fifth semester system software lab. Written in C++, its a ncurses based light weight text editor for linux. It is modelled on Turbo C editor, EDIT, and gedit. Works best in text mode. I do not maintain this because frankly, vim rulez.

{i} Get it here.