History

  I am Deepan Chakravarthy N. I did my schooling in 5 different schools. But most part of my schooling was from Sainik School Amaravathy Nagar. I had spent seven years of my life in that forest that houses Sainik School. It was a very different life combined with right amount of sports, games, and academics. It was my schooling  at Sainik School that kindled my interest in computers. It was during those day I explored the Borland C++ compiler, Borland Graphics Interface (BGI). The outcome was a Bouncing ball game that I wrote during 12^th. Unfortunately BGI is outdated by today's standard. But today I use Open Graphics Library, though I am not a expert in OpenGL.

    After schooling I joined B.Tech in Biotechnology at Centre for Biotechnology, Anna University. I really don't know if that was for good or bad. But it was during my college I got exposed to the professional world of computers. It was during college days I got introduced to  GNU Linux. I switched from Borland to GNU compiler collection (GCC). I also learned to build  a Linux system from scratch (LFS)  during my 6th semester. That was a wonderful experience. The famous segmentation fault that I encountered with my programs  made me learn GDB, Valgrind. Eventually I also ended up tinkering with various  development tools in Linux starting from GBD, Automake, Autoconf, Libtool. I did try  a bit of parallel programing using MPI. I had explored perl, though I am not very good at perl compared to C and C++. Now I am on PHP. Recently wrote a Sudoku solver using C and then later converted in to PHP.
    I am also associated with Institute of Mathematical Sciences where I work along with Mr C Viswanath and  Dr Ramesh Anishetty in developing a software to analyse biological networks. The software is called as network-mechanic and is expected to released within a couple of months.  I am also a student of  Mr Chadrashekar Babu, a computer geek  from Chennai. I enjoy his classes to a very great extent. Though he teaches me GNU Linux, I learn hardware from him. I am a fan of Richard Stallman (aka RMS, the founder of GNU Project) though I don't use Emacs.
     I spend most of my time with the computer that I have at home. At times I do go to college. Its more easy to contact me through  IRC nick  "codeshepherd" at  (Freenode DOT net) compared to other modes of today's communication. My 13 year hostel life ended last December. Now I am living along with my brother and parents in Besant Nagar, Chennai. My brother Prathap Nirmal,  works for Google, Hyderabad.