Welcome to CodingRush!

Here, you will find all the major (and even minor) projects that I have worked on in recent history. There are some major projects from my college classes (i.e., Senior Design projects, Senior Design Lab, Database Systems projects, etc.) and there are some major projects that I have developed on my own spare time (i.e., AuthFW, phpRush, etc.) Minor projects would include code snippets, pseudo code, thoughts on new and upcoming developments, and such.

By sharing these projects (and the code that goes along with it, of course), I hope you learn something out of it. All of my work, unless specified otherwise, is published under GNU GPL licence. Which means, you are free to use it.

Project Release

Finally! after a long time, the much awaited ‘next-release’ of this plugin is here!
It’s with pleasure, yet again, that I make the announcement of releasing 2nd (and much improved) version of project: Readability Meter Plugin.

What is it?

This plugin simply adds a graphical display, showing who the target demographic (i.e. audience) is, towards whom the post/article is published. In other words, display graphically, whether your article is geared towards Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Experts, or Gurus Users.

I would really appreciate if users post their feedback on this Plugin, along with any feature requests, bug reports, or anything that you see fit.

Who Can Use This Plugin?

Well, pretty much anyone can use this plugin. However, I had ‘Tutorial’ or ‘Guides’ writers in mind… As they can indicate the comprehension level right at the top of their article, making it easy–for example–for expert users of that particular topic, to just skim through the article. However, if you can see it as a good piece to be added to your own site, by all means use it!

Features:

• No Fuss Install
• Preview Selected Readability Meter
• Display Currently Selected Readability Meter
• No Unnecessary DB Entries: i.e., The plugin will not make any revision/auto-save related entries. it will make entries only that is related to the current post.
• NEW!!!
  Alternate Article
  Remove Readability Meter
  Customized Display Text
  Customized Choice Words

For a complete list of changes, please refer to the change-log_v0.2.txt

Enough… Show Me the Needed Info!

Questions? Comments? Critiques?

Please post all your questions/comments/critiques below, in the comment section. I will try and set the forums up, but till then, this will suffice.

Enjoy!

UPDATE 1.

• Added SourceForge Project Download Link
• Added SourceForge Code Download Link
• Added ScreenShots

It is with great pleasure that I announce the first ever (beta) public release of my latest project “RoboDown” codenamed RapidRush (go figure!). This is a beta, so expect bugs! All of your inputs regarding bugs/feature suggestions/etc. would be greatly appreciated, as this would aid in further development of the project.

Now, on with some explanation:

What is it?

RoboDown -- RapidShare Downloader

RoboDown is a, type of, download manager for RapidShare; this project is intented for FREE users only! if you want/or are looking for a download manager for premium users, there are far better/sophisticated/advanced download managers out there.

I don’t get it… What exactly does it do?

Okay, I will try and break this down and simplify it as much as possible: The way that RapidShare works is as follows–User A uploads a file (for our purposes, assume the Max size = 200 MB). Upon successful upload, RapidShare provides User A with a URL/Link to the uploaded file that only User A knows (technically, this is not true, thanks to all those RapidShare search engines, but just go with it…). Next, User A sends out an email containing the RapidShare link to his/her friend(s) and notifies where they could obtain the file from. User B then navigates to that link and is provided a choice of download: Download the file as a “Free user” or as a “Premium user”. User B selects “Free user” and than waits for X seconds. Upon expiration of this timer, RapidShare provides a Final download link to User B, which User B clicks on and starts the download.

This is as simple as it gets. Now it’s great if its just one file that User B needs to download… it can be managed. However, imagine if User A had uploaded multiple files (e.g. 5 files, each measuring up to 200MB). The way RapidShare handles downloads is that once a user downloads a file, they would have to wait 15 or so minutes before they could download the next file… For User B, the task of downloading all these files becomes arduous: ENTER RoboDown

With the aid of RoboDown, all that User B needs to do is copy and paste a comma seperated list of links and let RoboDown download the files “Robotically”!

Why did you make this?

As you (might) know, I am from India. A lot of my friends back home send me pics/vids of their latest adventures. Emailing these medias is very cumbersome for not only them, but also for people on the receiving end. So they upload it on RapidShare and send me the links–at times a list of multi-part links. Being a Computer Scientist, this was just too much clicking/waiting/clicking somemore/ and then waiting somemore for me to handle… So I made an attempt at automating this task.

Also, this is my first attempt at C#: This language has always been elusive for me… I have always wanted to learn C#, but for some reason or other, it always got put back on the backburner; So I asked myself, “What better way to (finally) learn this language than do a project in it?” The results: I loved it! C# has become my second favorite language (right behind PHP). Expect many more public releases of my work in C# in distant future. ’nuff said.

How about some ScreenShots?!
Sure, here you go

Main Application Screen

About Dialog

Why the name “RoboDown”?

The thought-process in naming this project “RoboDown” was to have a name that satisfactorily described what the project is all about, plus the place where it is intented to be used for, and finally the author: Robotically Downloading a link (or list of links) from RapidShare, codenamed RapidRush.

To be honest, I wanted to name this project “AutoDown” however, it was already taken by some other project (for automating some other task altogether). So, the next name that came to mind right away was “RapidRush”… However, soon after, I changed it to “RapidDown” and then finally to “RoboDown”.

Is it opensource?

Hell YES! All my projects (barring any security reasons) would be opensource! You are free to download the code and play with it. All I ask is to not remove any copyright information. Look below for more information on the source code access…

Enough… Show Me the Needed Info!

Sure, here you go–

PLEASE NOTE

All the images used in this project are gathered using iconarchive or iconlook, and they are the work of their respective authors, and not my own.

Lastly, I would like to say that: I (nor any other sites affiliated with this project) take ANY RESPONSIBILITY for what you do with this software or for what purposes you use this software. Furthermore, I (nor any other sites affiliated with this project) give any kind of warranty for this product. Use it at your own risk!

Questions? Comments? Critiques?

Please visit the Forum links as described above. Or, just go to the Forum Index

Project Release

It’s with GREAT pleasure, yet again, that I make the announcement of releasing my yet another latest project: Readability Meter Plugin for WordPress 2.7.

What is it?

This plugin simply adds a graphical display, showing who the target demographic (i.e. audience) is, towards whom the post/article is published. In other words, display graphically, whether your article is geared towards Novice, Intermediate, Advanced, Experts, or Gurus Users.

As with any of my first releases, it’s been given version 0.1. I would really appreciate if users post their feedback on this Plugin, along with any feature requests, bug reports, or anything that you see fit.

Who Can Use This Plugin?

Well, pretty much anyone can use this plugin. However, I had ‘Tutorial’ or ‘Guides’ writers in mind… As they can indicate the comprehension level right at the top of their article, making it easy–for example–for expert users of that particular topic, to just skim through the article. However, if you can see it as a good piece to be added to your own site, by all means use it!

Features:

• No Fuss Install
• Preview Selected Readability Meter
• Display Currently Selected Readability Meter
• No Unnecessary DB Entries: i.e., The plugin will not make any revision/auto-save related entries. it will make entries only that is related to the current post.

Enough… Show Me the Needed Info!

Questions? Comments? Critiques?

Please post all your questions/comments/critiques below, in the comment section. I will try and set the forums up, but till then, this will suffice.

Enjoy!

Project Release

It’s with GREAT pleasure that I make the announcement of releasing my latest project: Content Icons Plugin for WordPress 2.7.

What is it?

Simply put, Content Icons is a tool that an author can use to assign “icons” or “images” to individual posts… similar in idea to having Topic Icons. However, biggest difference being, topic icons only display icons that are related or associated with the category (Hence Topic Icon). Content Icons allows author to assign icons such that a reader can readily make an association with the post.

This being the first release of this project, it’s been given version 0.1. Please don’t let the version number deceit you. It has packed with a lot of features (look below for a list of features). However, it is my coding convention that my first ever release of any project starts with 0.1, and increments to 0.5 for the next release, and finally to 1.0, 2.0, etc. with every subsequent release (barring any minor updates).

Features:

• No Fuss Install: Simply upload your icons into the upload directory at:

ROOT/wp-content/uploads/cicons

• Preview Selected Icon
• Display Currently Selected Icon
• No Unnecessary  DB Entries: i.e., The plugin will not make any revision/auto-save related entries. it will make entries only that is related to the current post.

Enough… Show Me the Needed Info!

Questions? Comments? Critiques?

Please post all your questions/comments/critiques below, in the comment. I will try and set the forums up, but till then, this will suffice.

Enjoy!

Latest project release is that of databases class. In this, we had to come up with an intuitive database design for a job search engine and then implement it.

Project details, such as description, my role in the development of the project, and such is given below. Please feel free to leave feedback. You are free to use the code for your own project(s) if you wish.

Project Details:

Code release will be coming soon, as soon as I zip everything up and upload it, I will publish the download link.

Lastly, I have added this project to the ‘Academic Projects’ Section of this site… At this page, you will find all of my published academic projects.

Have Fun!
-RushiKumar

Publishing now, is the senior design lab project that my group and I worked on during the Senior year at UConn.

Project details, such as description, my role in the development of the project, and such is given below. Please feel free to leave feedback. You are free to use the code for your own project(s) if you wish.

Project Details:

Code release will be coming soon, as soon as I zip everything up and upload it, I will publish the download link.

Lastly, I have added this project to the ‘Academic Projects’ Section of this site… At this page, you will find all of my published academic projects.

Have Fun!
-RushiKumar

So… the whole point of this site is to share my creations (or co-creations). Therefore, without wasting any time, I am releasing my senior design project that my group and I worked on during my senior year at UConn (ergo, ’senior’ design project).

Project details, such as description, my role in the development of the project, and such is given below. Please feel free to leave feedback. You are free to use the code for your own project(s) if you wish.

Project Details:

Code release will be coming soon, as soon as I zip everything up and upload it, I will publish the download link.

Lastly, I have added this project to the ‘Academic Projects’ Section of this site… At this page, you will find all of my published academic projects.

Have Fun!
-RushiKumar