phpcamp is Back and this time its even bigger.

What a start for the year, i see various major tech events lined up this month and later, to start with the biggest PHP unconference in India or maybe in Asia the phpcamp is scheduled on 9th January 2010

Attend PHPCamp Because learning from humans is much better than Google

Event Website : http://phpcamp.org

Event Date: 9th January 2010

Register ASAP: http://phpcamp.eventbrite.com/ The number of allowed participants are limited, organizers have already increased the number twice.

Venue: Symbiosis Center of Distance Learning, Model Colony, Pune, India

Year 2009 was a great experience for me as i started my Professional Career in February 2009 and Completed Post Graduation in June 2009, I had been working for various organizations till 2008 as a freelancer/consultant, but in the beginning of 2009 i started my Professional Life by joining Maybole Technologies Pvt Ltd as a System Engineer.

I am tring to list down a few of my memories of each month of Year 2009

January 2009

After completing the Semester III of my Masters i was in search of Internship/Job which would would lead to completion of my MSc (CA) Programme, Markets were on a all time low and this search was taking just too long but fortunately on 27th January i appeared for Maybole Technologies and was recruited. In January i was also a part of the Organizing Team on 2nd Drupal Camp India we successfully organized the Event on The 31st January, the event received appreciations from all and was attended by more then 250 people which we never expected.

In January 2009 i also migrated my major Websites to a new Hosting Service

February 2009

It was Feb 2nd when i joined Maybole Technologies, I was introduced to the staff and was assigned a temp desk and books to read and my first day ended reading several Redhat Books. I started working only on the Third Day, and witnessed many things/operations which i was just unaware about in the past.

GNUnify 2009 was scheduled in Mid February, i used to come to SICSR after my office hours and at sometimes in lunch hours as i was given the responsibility for maintaining GNUnify 2009 website, but unfortunately i was not able to be present for GNUnify on both the days. On Second Day of GNUnify i took a Workshop on Drupal which was a great experience for me as it was the first time i took a workshop, in GNUnify 2008 i had only presented a topic.

My Drupal CVS was approved.

March 2009

First Salary, i was excited, the month went in writing a few scripts and configuring Application Servers, I would remember March 2009 as i released Gamabhana on Drupal.org Gamabhana was developed by Mr Omkar Joshi but was not available on drupal.org for various reasons and i contacted Mr Joshi and were able to release the module with permission. Also went for the Annual Maybole Trip

April 2009

Third month on the job worked on various configuration to select the most appropriate version of it, tries various new and old systems. Drupal Hindi Translations for Drupal were in full swing with a few contributors coming on board, planned to release a hi package. Submitted my final report for MSc (CA) appeared in the viva.

May 2009

Huuh Busy in office not much additional activities seen server crashes......... Released hi Package on Drupal.org

June & July 2009

Freelancing yet again reltok......... project came in tries various modules and customized a few on worked on theming for the first time. reltoked for 2 months to gave it a shape excited over the project.

August 2009

This was a important month, recieved an offer from Symbiosis to join in as Web Administrator, resigned from Maybole and was loaded wil some additional work of documenting my work and train my  colleague regarding my responsibilities.... Applied for creating a hi project on localize.drupal.org on 24th August and Gabor created it for for on 26th Aug exported all translation collected using drupall10n.com to the new Drupal Translation Server.

August 31st my last day at Maybole,was excited to join Symbiosis yet again this time not as a student :) met all the fellow maybole staff complied a few memories from Maybole. Would never forget Mr Mahendra for all support and favor he provided me at Maybole

September 2009

I am back in Symbiosis, With meetings lined-up from Day 1, met the staff understanding how this organization works took me an entire month and even long i am still unaware of many things here. Took Drupal Association Membership, Planning and working for Drupal Sprint India Adison Berry is expected in the event, this has to be a big event for Indian Drupal Community

October 2009

Working on a few new activities for Symbiosis its fun working here, i am bit relaxed here as compared to the last organization and people are adaptable. Work for Drupal Sprint India is on fast pace, the event is in end of the month, i am looking over the website and managing other activities and promoting the event as much as i can. Drupal Sprint India a 2 day non stop went on quite well Few Documentation were comitted in Drupal.org. With Karunakar helping in Hindi Localization we added upto 1000 new translations in 2 days. the event was exciting and a learning experience.

October was a big month for me as Kashipur.in completed its 3 years.

November 2009

Symbiosis is now a bit active on Social Media, Convocation is next month Papa & Mummy coming for the Event, they would be in Pune for the first time.

December 2009

Convocation on the First Weekend Papa & Mummy coming on 5th December, i am eagerly waiting for them as have not gone to home since 6 months, And finally its day of Convocation left early with parents to SIU met friends all are excited for the Convocation Dr Shashi Tharoor is the chief guest for the Event, This Convocation is also important in the history of SIU as it was its first Convocation in its Lavala Campus. The Convocation Ceremony Started and after a series of motivating speeches the ceremony ended around 3 PM, Now I am officially a Post Graduate.

Took a 2 day leave from office and will be with parents, went to Bheema Shankar and then for a movie with Parents, it was fun to be with them after a long time. And i am back to work.

Released a new hi package once again with the new translation received in Drupal Sprint India2009, Montu Bhai (Mayank Nagar) is in Pune for a 2 days so met him over a lunch. In December went for a number of movies, i dont think that i would have seen these many movies in the last 11 months.

The Year was fun filled hoping a great year ahead.

Wising You all a Very Happy New Year.

Technology is changing the way in which we do the normal day to day things, Libraries are changed to Digital Libraries, Educational institutions and corporate are moving to no paper offices. Building up a corporate Intranet System is the need of hour. 

Drupal for Education & E-Learning is a great work by Bill Fitzgerals which can be used to build your own intranet system.

The book gives a step by step guide to build up a complete intranet for your college/school and how to effectively use it for better communication

Use this book to build up an intranet systen which will provide your services like

• Teachers & Students Blogs
• Enrolling Students
• Bookmarking Content
• Podasting over the Intranet
• Video Hosting
• Forums
• Social Networks
• Student Progress Tracker

The book provides an excellent step by step guide to setup the entire System, Special Thanks to PACKT Publishing for providing the book for review. I highly recommend this book for Educational Institutions for building their own systems

Sample Chapter : Creating Student Blog

Drupal Sprint India was a 2 day event held on 30 & 31st October 2009 in Pune and was one of the biggest Drupal Sprints ever held in India, Sprinters from Kashmir, Karnataka, Delhi, Gujrat and almost all regions of India took part in making this event a huge success, this event was divided in mainly 3 parts Sprints, Talks & Workshops, Sprint was sub classified as Code Sprint, Documentation Sprint & The Translation Sprint.

Day 1)

The event started half hour delayed with a welcome message from PLUG, which continued with a talk by Aradhana Sharma on "Customizing your Drupal website using RULES", and while she was delivering her talk few of us were getting ready the Sprinters Hall, in a hour time the Sprints started with Adisson Berry heading the Document Sprint. With Sprinters coming in the Sprints were running houseful and talks went on well.

The first day talks included talks on

• Customizing your Drupal website using RULES by Aradhana Sharma
• Google Apps Integration with Drupal" by Ankur saxena
• Marathi, Hindi or Chinese website?- Do it with Drupal!! by Prasad Shirgaonkar
• Drupal theming via 960 grid system" by Gaurav Mishra
• Miami Dolphins Case Study by Mir Nazim and a
• Workshop for Beginners by Abhishek Nagar

People were busy in listening to talks and beginners were busy with the workshop while Sprinters were contributing the first Contribution came from Mr Prasad Shirgaonkar in the form of a Documentation for Localization which was highly appreciated, Sprinters worked on porting different Modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.

The day came to an end for the Talks around 5:30 PM, but the sprints continued whole night, with sprinters working on various Modules. Documentation and Translations

Day 2)

Sprinters were on work for the whole night the first tweet for the ay 2 came around 3:00 AM :), Day 2 witnessed a drop in the audiance in talks but the Sprints continued housefull.

The second day talks included

• Drupal 7, Anatomy of a killer release by Dipen Chaudhary
• Do it with Drupal - The M3 Serve Platform by Gaurav Kumar
• A Case Study of www.openthemagazine.com: How to make beautiful and featureful news and magazine websites in Drupal  by Sidharth Kshatriya
• Building Indian Language based Social Networking Site with Drupal! by Prasad Shirgaonkar
• Brightcove Integration with Drupal by Ravi Gupta
• Workshop by Prasad Shirgaonkar on Quick & Easy Drupal Theme Creation!

• The event schedule was reshuffled as one of the Speakers coming from a different location was unable to reach the venue due to some reasons.

The Sprinters were working hard with the sprints lot many bugs were fixed and reported, more than 500 Translations were done and uploaded to http://localize.drupal.org/languages/hi

Pre Event (Last minute arrangements)

Upgrading of the available bandwidth from 256Kbps to 8Mbs was a huge task and fortunately this was completed just one day before the event, Arrangement of event T-shirts just finished in time, setting up of Wifi at the Venue was the final task for 29th October 2009

For more images visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dsi2009/

I have always asked this question to my colleagues as to "How do i restrict Multiple Logins in an Active Directory Setup"

So here is the answer

Create a file when a user login and check for such file each time the login request is received  if file exists logoff, if file is not present Login and create the file. Its that simple

Below is the step by step process to achieve this using Group Policy

Assumptions:

1. Windows 2003 AD is being used
2. //<server>/logon is shared and write access is given to everyone

The Steps

Step 1) Create 2 batch files in C:\WINDOWS\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain.name\scripts\logon

File 1: login.bat

:: BEGIN CALLOUT A
If Exist \\server\logons\%username%.txt Goto notlogon
Echo %username% logged in from %computername% > \\server\logons\%username%.txt
Echo %username% logged in from %computername% > \\server\logons\%computername%.txt
:: END CALLOUT A
Goto end
:notlogon
Logoff
:end

File 2: logout.bat

:: BEGIN CALLOUT A
If Not Exist \\server\logons\%computername%.txt goto notlogon
Del \\server\logons\%username%.txt
Del \\server\logons\%computername%.txt
:: END CALLOUT A
Goto end
:notlogon
Logoff
:end

Step 2) Modify Group Policy

Edit the Group Policy related to the OU where you want to disable multiple logins, In Group Policy Object Editor locate to

User Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts (Logon/Logoff)

Add the login.bat created earlier in Logon and logout.bat in Logoff

Adding Login Script on Group Policy

thats it now when you login a file would be created in //<server>/logon with the username and computername of the loggedin user and he/she will not be able to login to other computer and once he logoff these would be automatically deleted and the user will be allowed to login on any Client.

This was simple