FROM THE ARCHIVE
Where curiosity took shape. Academic papers, desktop utilities, and small experiments from my student years. These are historical artifacts, preserved in the context of their time.
Supervised by Dr T V Prabhakar
I built an Android framework that helps end users and application developers create domain-specific knowledge apps from Linked Data. The framework uses Semantic Web standards and RDF to capture semantics, retrieve facts, and infer triples, extending what users can do beyond browsing and managing content.
The work demonstrates two use cases and describes a framework that scales to large datasets.
A six-part study of cryptography and secure communication. The paper and presentation received second prize at a national symposium at AITS, Rajkot.
Read the paperAn undergraduate introduction to robotics and intelligent machines. An early exploration of how software can act in the physical world.
Original Windows-era software. These downloads may require legacy environments.
Type Hindi phonetically using English letters and see it appear in Hindi. I built this before Google transliteration became popular, using legacy Hindi fonts rather than Unicode. Includes an on-screen keyboard, multiple input methods, and rich-text editing. The downloadable ZIP contains a Windows executable that uses a keyboard hook and works on old Windows systems only.
I also built a browser-based version that converts English keystrokes into Unicode Hindi, with a key guide and examples. Try online version ↗
A text-mode game built in Turbo C++. One of my first C/C++ projects. I still remember printing ten pages of its source code on my dot-matrix printer. I have not been able to find the source since; only the compiled game survives. Built for DOS text mode, it does not run natively on modern Windows, macOS, or Linux systems; a DOS emulator is needed.
A Windows ActiveX component for tray icons and balloon tips, with a VB6 demo.
A mechanical spring effect that follows the cursor. An early Windows desktop experiment.
A playful VB6 experiment that makes the Start button follow the mouse. Source included.
My first tutorial, published in 2003, explored Unicode to customize Windows XP labels, menus, and filenames in Hindi and other Indian languages. It became popular enough to earn me money from ads, an early taste of building something useful on the web.
An early presentation on SOAP, service characteristics, and service-oriented architecture. The original presentation file is missing from the backup.
Read the original post ↗A historical investigation into password storage in legacy accounting software. The original utility is missing from the backup.
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