Also, last thursday was the Engineering Student Awards Dinner. As an entrance scolarship recipient I was invited with some 400 other engineering students. At my table was sitting Gaurav Jain, who graduated from software engineering last year and is now the VP of Polar Mobile, a young and quite successful company developing a smartphone publishing tool. I had the occasion to talk a bit with him about how he started the company and how he is managing it. He is a pretty brilliant guy and his company looks really promising.

I’m not working on a particular project. I discovered Project Euler and spent some time doing the first 10 challenges in C. I’m currently learning Ruby and the Ruby on Rails framework via tutorials. I have an idea in mind for a future project that would fit perfectly with Rails but I’m not proficient enough right now to do anything effective. But I’m a quick learner so stay tuned!

I also wrote a directory view script to display the files of projects that are not web projects. It uses PHP to retrieve the file list and a jQuery script I wrote to reorder the files without reloading the whole page every time. It also more visually appealing than the classic Apache directory view.