College life finally comes to an end. Being here on this blog, and having met *so* many interesting people was totally worth it. I have had my share of fun & pangas, brick bats and criticism, and must say I enjoyed every bit of it. I hope techtatva reaches greater heights and we can provide higher levels of competition. I am sure techtatva will one day will be an international techfest.

As of me, I have moved to Bangalore, getting used to a more professional life. This is my last sem in Manipal, and I am SO beginning to miss it.

I do sometimes, write things in my personal blog and my technical bog. You can check them out sometime.

Time to say bbye…

NeYawn

The winner for Day One is Indranil, who had an impressive net worth of $104549.63. For sometime, Vinit Vishal and Ashu Khemka were also good contenders, though they slipped at the end.

We had to revise our rules of the game and today onwards we will be disallowing mutilple accounts by users. We really did not have issues with 2 or more accounts per user in case a person wants to start afresh, but that led to misuse and spamming.There were at a time around 10 accounts of a certain user and a few more of others which was irksome. We did not have a policy for not letting people have multiple accounts, but did not expect one to sign up with 10 Handles, which appeared as spam on leaderboards, which is when we had to intervene and delete multiple accounts. However we gave participants a benefit by allowing them to retain their most profitable accounts.

Day 2 of Stockastica is ON , and we currently have over 200 unique participants, and the competition is close. Hope you enjoy day 2 of Stockastica!

Have fun!

Stockastica is an online virtual stock market that lists 20 companies from NasDaq.com and their current stock values taken in real time from NasDaq.com. On registration, you’ll be given $100,000 USD of virtual money, which you can use to purchase shares of different companies listed. The 4 day event begins at 6:30 PM IST, the time when the US markets open and go on till midnight when the markets close. At the end of each day, depending on the Net Assets Value (NAV), a winner will be declared, and wil be rewarded with real bounty

The event commences on October 8,  at 6:30 PM IST. You can download the desktop application and manually install it on your computer by following the instructions given below:

( Note that you can download and install the application on your computer starting now itself, and even start buying and selling for fun and gain experience. However, the contest begins on October 8, 1830 hrs. IST and  contests will be thereafter eligible for winning real prizes )

1. Click here and download Adobe AIR from Adobe’s website. Install AIR on your computer by double clicking on the downloaded file.

2. Click here to download Stockastica AIR Desktop application. Double click on the downloaded file to install it on your computer.

3. Accept the terms of condition and install the application. Automatically a shortcut will be created on your desktop which you can click to launch the application.

4. Register and sign in with required details, and start buying and selling! Happy Investing!  

( Note that you have to register everyday to participate in that day’s share trading. Also, regstration is done at the client application and not on the stockastica website. To be eligible for prizes, you must fill the Stockastica feedback form
For any queries, leave comments.

1. Goto http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

2. Download the flash player to your computer from the above link.

3. After the dwonload is complete, Close all browser windows, be it IE, Safari, Mozilla or chrome.

4. Double click on the downloaded .exe file and install flash player 9.

5. After installation, restart your browser and visit the techtatva 2008 website [ http://techtatva08.com ]. Happy browsing!

Leave comments if you still have any issue.

Cheers!

Team Techtatva

Techtatva 2008 commences in a month’s time. The website is up and running. Check out the Techtatva 2008 Website for details. Do comment in here, if you have any issues accessing the Flash Version of Techtatva08.com

We”ll try to resolve any issues to the best of our abilities.

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Techtatva 2008 Team

Yahoo India will be coming on August 2. And it will be nice to watch out for it, since it only took one student last year in 2007.

On a funny note, I recall just two years back, searching for “Yahoo!” in Google listed Yahoo as the first result. Now this isn’t funny. The funny part is that searching for “Yahoo?” ( mark the ”?’ ) resulted in the message – Did you mean Yahoo?

Since I used to spend hours Googling back then , I had noticed it. An year down the line, I just noticed that searching for “Yahoo?” doesn’t give the error message as before. Which is strange! I mean nothing should have changed in two years, except that Yahoo is on the edges of a sell-out.( They did manage to survive, but that’s another story.)

Yahoo before:

Now

P.S. It’s my dream company.

Miss those interaction sessions (don’t dare call that ragging, Please! Feel sorry for juniors who never came to know about what they call or know as ragging) with seniors.
Other than studies, got the opportunity to participate in sports and activites too. Those cricket practice sessions in first year and Students’ Council at end of my Manipal life, what more could I have
asked for. Still don’t remember what made me apply for the President’s post. But today, don’t regret even a bit. Enjoyed like hell, revels, techtatva, golden jubilee dinner, diwali celebrations, Half day after
india won twenty20 world cup [Editor's Note: Yeah, He did it ! ], being blamed for bikes being banned, getting attendance letter even being a council member ( who said council gets free atendance? ) All sweet memories.

And yeah. How can I forget my beloved friends, friends forever. Those trips on bikes, nightouts dipped in beer and vodka( I was just watchin them :p ), sleepin till 2 on Sunday. Those days will never come back. It was a home away from home. I feel so MANIPAL SICK!

”Aisa yaadon ka mausam chala, Bhoolta hi nahin Dil mera….Purani
Jeans, Ali haider”

To al the juniors. Enjoy manipal like hell..u wont get smthin like dat
ever again in ur life. Believe me!!

- Kunal Gupta

(The author was the President of Students’ Council 2006-2007, and a proud MITian. He wrote his only article for this blog only after he left the college, in one of his nostalgic moments. He is currently pursuing his internship in Germany. )

The other day, RookShop and me were participating in NIT Trichy’s Annual Techfest, and must say- it was awesome. Well, we only participated in an online coding contest and didn’t quite do much except earn 100 points, but then that gave us a feeling why we shouldn’t have such an event(and of such robustness) at Techtatva 2008.

We’re also working on a complete revamp of Stockastica.com, the live virtual stock market game which is unique in its own way, because it uses LIVE data from NasDaq.com, and is one of its kind. We’re planning to provide our competitors with a richer GUI built in Flex.

As far as the Techtatva 2008 is concerned, we are working on it, and we hope to have it up and running in a month’s time. We plan to make it very very dynamic with enhanced GUI’s and we plan to use ASP.NET this time.

Any feedbacks and suggestion would be welcomed at :