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I just noticed that I haven’t blogged since 3 months – last post was on February 7^th. I was loaded with work in the past few months and didn’t find anything important to blog about .

I got selected for the Google Summer of Code project at PHP – Abstract Extension API and Dependency Interface; here is the link. So far, I have set up the build environment with lots of help from my mentor, Brian Shire, and played around with zend to get familiar with it. I will probably have to do considerable amount of work on this before our exams start on 1^st of June . Anyway, there’s a long 2 month vacation after exams .

I’ll be blogging about the status of the GSoC project, and you can also find updates here in the wiki.

I haven’t been able to blog for a while, since I’ve been kind of busy during the last two months; also, I didn’t have anything much to write about . Anyway here’s what I’ve been doing during the last few months.

Work in the Google Summer of Code project (XPath support to Axis2/C) went on smoothly, but I had to work for about 30hrs in some weeks to keep up with the schedule. The coding phase of the GSoC project ended a few days ago and the final evaluation deadline is on 1^st of September. I was able to finish all the coding a week before the deadline, except for the memory leak which I encountered only two days before the end of the coding phase; however, with some debugging I managed to fix that as well.

I was working on an interesting (and fun) project in a group of 10 to develop a portable device to generate binaural beats. We used a PIC microprocessor (PIC16F877A) to generate the waves. We faced some difficulties in programming (processing had to be very fast when high frequency waves are generated), because we could not find a synthesizer to generate the sine waves.

Apart from those I spent quite some time with badminton and tennis (even though I’m not very good at them ).

Now I need to get back to writing the problem statements for the NSSC selection test.