Karun AB

Its been a long road going through the SDI National Finals where we came second, going to IIM-A where we got project incubation and then finally to the World Finals where we won the interoperability award. Along the way, we made lots of new friends and learned a whole lot more.

Here are a few related posts on my blog: Imagine Cup 2008 World Finals and Imagine Cup 2008 Gallery. Be sure to check out the latter post which has never before seen footage.

Another announcement to be made is that the development for my custom CMS j@x has been put to halt indefinitely due to shortage of time. As have a few other projects like Scribble Scrabble. Some of them, I’ve signed over control to other AXIS members while others (like PHPIRCBot) shall be released in their current state. This decision had to be made considering my schedule over the past year only keeps getting busier and busier.

Next month, I’ll make sure I tell the world about a few products I have under development and others I have ready in my garage ;) The releases include DarkLight, PHPIRCBot and a brand new CountPrime.

So welcome to the new home of j@x, the minimalistic CMS made by.. well me :-)

Lets clear up a few things. I was supposed to release the new version of j@x with the arrival of this domain, this didn’t happen.
The new version will have quite a few improvements along with an alternate theme and may be even AJAX. Who knows? :P One thing it won’t have a set of emotes. In true j@x fashion, this site has to remain geeky and ASCII emotes are certainly the way ;)

Moving on, why this domain name? For those who don’t know, I, John Anderton/JAnderton am known in the real world (IRL) as Karun AB.

So why did I get this domain? Jatonian Life has always been and will always be a blog. This on the other hand is far more technical (a bit too technical I’ve been told :P) so I decided to maintain it separately.
Basically karunab.com will act as my

1. Place for putting out my technical writings
2. List of all my projects and works (ie. the ones available to the public :P)
3. Sort of an online resume for me.

Not to mention I can now have an awesome email address on my domain :P
I wish I could have more time to develop j@x to the fullest extents of my imagination. Every time I sit with it, I get new ideas so its really fun. I’d like to take this site a long way.. so it can represent me electronically or at least attempt to come as close to it as possible.

Do stick around and show your appreciation. It only urges me to move forward quicker with my work :)

PS: I’d just like all of you to know that team SKAN has made it to the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2008 India Finals! You can read about it on the AXIS forum. Hurrah!
Also, you can have a look at a related post on Jatonian Life (named Day of Reckoning approaches)