About Me (TS Pradeep Kumar)

Working at VIT University and having great interest towards embedded wireless systems and e-learning. This site caters to most of the Indian Engineering/technology students to know about embedded systems, network simulator, e learning tools/techniques, etc. If you are a student or a learner, you can always request a title or post..

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Installing Android SDK with Emulator in Windows

How to install the Android Emulator with SDK in Windows 7 Operating System
Tools Needed

JDK 1.6 or JRE
Eclipse IDE for Java Developers or Eclipse RDP/Plugin Developers
Android SDK for Windows
ADT plugin for Eclipse

Step 1:
Install JDK and Eclipse
Step 2:

Unzip or untar the Android SDK and extract it into a folder namely [...]

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Writing a Simple Character Device driver in Linux

A Character device driver needs a major number and a minor number. The devices are registered in the Kernel and it lies either in the /dev/ or in the /proc folder.
The following example uses a char device driver with major number 222 and a minor number 0. The name of the device driver namely “new_device”
It [...]

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Workshop on Elearning tools and Techniques

The workshop on Elearning Tools and Techniques at VIT University, Vellore concluded well and nearly 40 participants have participated.
Some highlights of the workshop

The workshop started as per schedule exactly.
There was only a 20 minute presentation for the entire day, rest of the times were hands on session
The workshop completed as per schedule exactly.
The participants [...]

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Students Assignment and Project Management using Drupal

Modules Needed

Webform Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=webform)

To create form to display the student particulars, assignment information

Captcha Module (download Link: http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=captcha)

This module is to avoid the automatic submission

Go to create content and click Webform
A page is opened with the following menus

Menu Link title – “Assignment 1 – B. Tech (CSE)”
Webform Settings – [...]

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Top 10 Moodle Myths

Once Moodle is stable, it will be put under licence. If it were any good, they’d already be charging for it
Moodle needs a full time, php developer on your staff- or at least a lot of technical support to run it in house
Moodle won’t be compatible with our other systems/software
Moodle just doesn’t [...]

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Installing WordPress on your Server

Download the source from the http://wordpress.org and extract or unzip it to the folder c:/wamp/www
1. Open the browser and type http://localhost/phpmyadmin and create a database for wordpress. I have created as wordpress.
2. Once the database is created, open a new window and type http://localhost/wordpress
3. First page may show error as give below

4. Click the “create [...]

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Modules in Drupal

Modules

Operation: administer -> Site builidng -> Modules
In the above diagram, the list of modules which comes along with drupal package is available. Some of the modules are enabled and some are disabled. It is upto the user that the modules can be enabled/disabled.
To Enable, the checkbox to the ticked.
How to add a new module

To [...]

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Installing Drupal

Assumptions
To get Drupal up and running, you will need all of the following:
A domain
A web host
FTP access to your web host
OR
A local testing environment
For building sites, either a web host or a local testing environment will meet your needs. A site built on a web-accessible domain can be shared via the internet, whereas sites built [...]

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Drupal Terminology

Drupal, like most software applications, has a specific lexicon. Mastering Drupal jargon is useful for many reasons, not the least of which is that using Drupal-specific terminology can help you search for information more effectively. The glossary in this chapter will give you an overview of commonly used Drupal terms, and what they mean.
This list [...]

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Installing WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

Download WAMP from the following link. http://www.wampserver.com/en/ 
It is an .exe file, simply double click it and give the path as C:/wamp or whatever directory you want,give it.
Once installation is successful, an icon will be appearing at the bottom right task bar like this
Click the icon, a menu will be opened, click [...]

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