as i see it

This was one heck of a competition.
2 months...lots of not stop exploring and experimenting and countless sleepless nights.

CFF was organised by SUN, open to students across India, and included contributing towards any of their open source technologies like NetBeans, Open Solaris, Glassfish etc.

We'd heard about the CFF competition long time back but got down to work seriously only in dec. The three of us ( dats kunal, anil and myself) got down to trying to figure out what to contribute. Believe me this part was harder than making the plugins itself.

So we started with a scratchpad and a whiteboard. And later came to develop plugins for many interesting API's like blogger,picasa nd yahoo messenger
We ended up spending our days pouring over our PC's , getting together at one of our places. Getting stuck regularly, getting bugged with the snail speed's that NetBeans ran and ofcourse the thought of the approaching exams but never giving up.

Finally it was feb and we submitted 6 plugins for netbeans + 3 tutorials for the netbeans wiki page.
Whew !! that was a lot, had never thought we'd be submitting even one
And then when few weeks later we heard that we won and got an iPod each , there was nothing that could stop me from jumping up n down ( made nilay n rohit wonder if i'd gone mad).
This was just gr8.... being 3 out of the 10 students across india to get the prize felt just gr8.

And ofcourse a iPod id always welcome !!