After using Git and SVN office I have finally started using http://www.fossil-scm.org/ . The thing I like about svn is the server client relation, the non distributed nature of it. It helps in an environment where people aren’t smart. Yes I think you need a bunch of equally smart and responsible people to be using [...]
1) I desperately wanted this girl to give me a call, and boy she did. At that time I was expecting Shweta an office colleague to call and inform me of a username and password I needed. So I pick the call and said ” Shweta you should have called early I was waiting” in [...]
I wanted to acquire some skills at web application programming. So I read a little bit of django and create a stock exchange new mashup. It acquire news from Yahoo BOSS for all BSE listed companies. Simple as that. I would for sure put it on github.com by weekend.
I now have access to all stock [...]
I would agree it’s obscure to certain degree. People could be clueless and thus would not appreciate. But that ok. I intend to learn dreamweaver and make this mock come to life.
I compiled a list of OSS hosted on GAE. There a few good weblog hosting solution. Now only pay for the domain.
Nothing gives more pleasure than working on your own ideas at your terms.
Musiclog is a small ruby script that will
1) Catalog you music and generate HTML output,
2) Fetch Meta data from Wikipedia, freebase, AWS, MusicBrainz on Album/Artist,
3) Extract some decent statistics.
Notes: One can comment on my weblog now.
The only web scripting language I know is perl. I don’t like Perl.
It’s important to have a scripting language in your programming languages arsenal. I have read a Ruby book once. Ruby is anytime more elegant than perl.
With scripting languages you can move moutains with little effort. If you want to achieve the same with [...]
What is BeanBag?
Beanbag is a book cataloging application on steroids. It primarily relies on Amazon E-commerce Web Service, ISBNDB etc for getting information about the book.
Features
1) Add/Delete a Book
Give it an ISBN No, and it will query first the AWS to get book details (authors , publisher, recommendation, description, review, rating, Book Image). It queries [...]
Once upon a time I used SQLite 2.8 and QT 3.3 … However times hv changed … SQLite 3.3 and QT 4.1.2 have arrived … SQLite 3.3 file format is incompatible with that of 3.3 … QT 3.x API is heavily depreciated requiring one to open the API documentation every now and then … if [...]