Welcome to KGR Notebook

No matter how much it hurts, no matter what the pain is inside, work hard to make somebody happy everyday, even if it is yourself.
This is an experimental canvas to try out all my amateurish skills or I should say interests like writing, photograpy, little bit of teaching, etc, etc but most importantly I'm here to to have fun by trying and sharing all sorts of weird things which probably I shouldn't even dream of doing!!

As Albert Einstein rightly said “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”....but who cares about rights and wrongs..live life as good as it gets!! Read More About Me

About Me

Kamalika Guha Roy

My name is Kamalika Guha Roy and I own this site. This is my canvas where I can scribble, splash colors and do whatever. I love to write (read scribble!). When I was younger, my scribbling always came in handy to act as my greatest escape. It was my little way to run away from reality and enter a world where I could find peace. So here's a bit about who I am, and what I love...

Bookworm (only fictions!!) but hated textbooks ever. Music lover, movie buff, foody and a wanderer. Michael Jackson and Madonna fan, great admirer of Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhonsle. Born in a Hindu family but influenced by my Marxist father I've grown up believing myself an atheist and an intellectual. To me friendship is the most devine relationships of all and I have lived for true unconditional friendship and I wish to die for one as well.

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family. - Don Corleone

This website is all about the careless and free me living deliberately. This site is not my biography but a place where I want to share my life, my thoughts with the world. A place for people to read, write, learn, imagine and create. Welcome to my world, make yourself feel at home...

From the Blog

mongoDB

There are 2 parts to this article: 1. Installing mongoDB Server 2. Installing PHP mongo extension and make it work! Part 1: Installing mongoDB Server on CentOS 6.3 Create mongoDB repository configuration: [bash] cd /etc/yum/repos.d vi /etc/yum.repos.d/10gen.repo [/bash] Write the following script to create the mongoDB … [Read More...]

Apache Default Landing Page

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. In this article I'll try to explain how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.3 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support. This approach should work if you start from scratch, i.e., the server has only CentOS 6.3 installed and nobody ever tried to install or configure … [Read More...]

Achieving Redundancy & Scalability via Load Balancing

In my last post I asked "PHP is easy, is it a boon or bane?" because it is easy, most of the developers just develop systems but never pay attention to the architecture of the system on which they are developing. They never ask questions like "is the system stable?" or "will it be able to handle a lot of concurrent users?" or "is my code optimized … [Read More...]

My Photos

People Photo #2
Places Photo #1
Abstract Photo #2
Abstract Photo #1
Flowers Photo #1
People Photo #1

Quote of the day

"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”