Trip To Araku BurraCaves Visakhapatnam

Trip to Araku – Burra Caves – Vishakapatnam

Number of Persons : 6

Number of Days: 3  (Fri+Sat+Sun)

Expenditure per head: Approx 1800-2000  (excluding your personal shopping or other cost)

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Hi friends last year in January 2013 i went to 3 days trip to Coastal area of Andhra Pradesh. I and my 5 friends planned to leave from Hyderabad on Friday and to return on Tuesday (Sat-Sun-Mon).

We booked to Vishakhapatnam from Hyderabad you can get list of trains  between Hyd and Vizag HERE. We left at 5.15 pm from HYB by Godavari express and reached vizag by morning 6 am. We got fresh and had tiffin. At 6.50 there is a passenger train to Araku from Vizag. You will reach Burra Caves Railway Station at 11 am. On the  way you will get nearly 40 Underground canals  and the scenic beauty is breath taking. Stick to windows so that you can enjoy it this is heart of the trip don’t waste by sleeping, no one will allow you to sleep every one shout as it enters the canals.

By reaching Araku you have to choose any cab. There are lot of peoples will be there with advertisement. Don’t be panic and don’t agree on more than 100-150 per head. They will take you to 2 waterfalls, Burra caves and finally Leave you at Araku city through nice Coffee farms. They will tell they will show many other spots but it cannot be done in single day so i suggest to have bath in KATKI falls till 1.00 pm and go back to burra caves have Lunch (Veg Andhra Bhojanalaya) see the burra caves and then at 4 leave to Araku on the way they will show another waterfall nice to see but not easy to play or take bath then through coffee farms and scenic spots you reach Araku at 6-7 pm. There are lot of hotels we stayed in the HUTs which are located opposite to the Andhra Pradesh tourism guest house.

Next day was Sunday and we woke up early and had a nice trek to the near hill which is completely covered in the fog. Then at 7 we had breakfast and went to Chaparayi by local bus which is 10 Km from Araku. The Chaparayi is also a good waterfall the wonderfull thing about chaparayi is water flows on big rock which is horizontal and slightly slope. You can slid from top to bottom in water about 50 metres.

Then came back to araku had lunch and then we left back to vizag and reached vizag by night at 9 pm and took room in a hotel. Next morning was Monday we woke up very early and went to Rama Krishna beach to see the sunrise (Vizag is east coast you will have sunrise not sunset). We enjoyed a lot and had hot hot vada’s on the streets. Then went to Kailash giri and trek to the top. Then get down at 12 and had Lunch then went to Rushi konda beach and played a lot in beach of golden sand. Then came back to hotel by 4.30 and reached railway station by 5 and our Godavari express was waiting for us. We left at 5.15 and reached Hyderabad at morning 6.

Now our every day trip started by 10 am we were at ..........

Infront of our Team leader telling reasons for yesterdays (Mondays) leave. Our TL was in friend list of one of my friend and he liked the trip photos after listening our innovative reasons.

How to Install DrRacket in Ubuntu

In this article I will show you how to install DrRacket, a popular Scheme editor and compiler, on Ubuntu 12.04.
The generic steps are: add the PPA, update the system, install DrRacket.
DrRacket is a very  popular Development IDE, mostly used for Functional Programming.
Add the PPA:

$ sudo su

# echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/plt/racket/ubuntu precise main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

# echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/plt/racket/ubuntu precise main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Update:

# apt-get update

Install DrRacket:

# apt-get install racket

Then goto dash home you will get a icon of DrRacket click it to open
you will get a window as shown below

Now, the firs step is to choose Language
Menu --> Language -->  Choose Language -->  Select the Racket Language --> click 'OK'

 
That's all friend's start scratching your head to learn Scheme.

What is Quality, it's different perspectives and Software quality?

What is Quality?

            According to dictionary meaning quality is a property or characteristic of a thing. In engineering word quality is used in the same manner to show the perfection level of a device. Wiki gives a definition as “non-inferiority or superiority of something”. According to ISO standards quality is "the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs."

            After so many definitions in general we can say that Quality is a measure of excellence, perfection or a state of being free from defects, deficiencies and significant variations. It is brought about by strict and consistent commitment to certain standards that achieve uniformity of a product in order to satisfy specific customer or user requirements

Let us see Quality from different perspectives.

            Quality is a perceptual, conditional and somewhat subjective attribute and may be understood differently by different people. Consumers may focus on the specification quality of a product/service, or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace. Producers might measure the conformance quality, or degree to which the product/service was produced correctly. Support personnel may measure quality in the degree that a product is reliable, maintainable, or sustainable.

            The user perspective is concerned with the appropriateness of the product for a given context of use. Whereas the transcendental view is ethereal, the user view is more concrete, grounded in the product characteristics that meet user’s needs. The developer / manufacturer perspective represents quality as conformance to requirements. This aspect of quality is stressed by standards, which defines quality as "the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements".

What is Software Quality?

            Software quality can be referred to two different definitions; Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specifications. That attribute can also be described as the fitness for purpose of a piece of software or how it compares to competitors in the marketplace as a worthwhile product.

            Software structural quality refers to how it meets non-functional requirements that support the delivery of the functional requirements, such as robustness or maintainability, the degree to which the software was produced correctly.

What is Engineering and Role of an Engineer ?

What is Engineering?

            As per wiki engineering is a knowledge used to design, build, maintain structures, machines and other several processes. You will get several definitions for engineering but the common thing in all definitions is “Designing, Building, Maintaining”. The engineering process is mainly concentrated to solve some problem, find some solution which improves the world around us.

What an Engineer do / Role of an Engineer?

            Engineer important role is to study problem related information and gain knowledge about it. Then inter relate the scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge to design and build a solution for the problem.

            As it is not a task of one person the engineer should work in a team. Communicate with all the members of team and share knowledge and ideas among each other this helps to understand the problem better and also to find some key issues in the problem.

Engineer(ing) !!! from My perspective.

            “Engineering is not only doing thing, but doing the thing very efficiently”.

According to me engineering is not only building and designing some machines which perform some work. But doing the thing more efficiently in all areas like cost efficient, performance, usability, security, safety and much more.

Engineers are problem solvers, organisers, communicators, calculators and designers. They are capable of clearly defining a problem and its relevant constraints (such as time, cost, etc.) and providing a simple solution.

What is Software Engineer(ing)?

            One of the field in engineering where the solutions are build in software. This can be explained in simple words as “A software engineer is a practitioner of software engineering. Software engineers apply the principles of engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of the software and systems that make computers or anything containing software work.”

How to Install WEKA a Data Mining Tool on Windows 7

To learn how to install WEKA a text mining tool then download the below document file.


   https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxNl7GbwZiZhVTJEbUswZTlUVnM/edit?usp=sharing

This is the GUI you get when started. You have 4 options Explorer, Experimenter, KnowledgeFlow and Simple CLI. Detail on each module is in my next post. Comment if you have any doubts.

Enjoy and Happy Learning.