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How to annoy a Python developer 11 Dec 2012 | 11:30 pm
Inspired by http://xkcd.com/1144/
nice & ionice 18 Nov 2012 | 02:30 pm
Is your system coming to a grinding halt when you run some programs? Is your web app not responding to regular users when you run some ad-hoc script in the server? Is your database taking forever to a...
Migrated to Pelican 16 Nov 2012 | 07:57 pm
Finally I've migrated this blog from Posterous to Pelican. It feels so nice to write posts in reST. Initially I considered Octopress, but dropped it when I realized that I need a system that I can ti...
Download Meetup Photos 14 Nov 2012 | 11:06 am
The frustrating thing with meetup.com is it does not allow us to easily download all photos of an event. I created a web app that gives the links to all highres photos of an event so that we can downl...
Bottle Debug Toolbar 13 Oct 2012 | 07:36 pm
I am a big fan of Django Debug Toolbar and I miss it badly in Bottle. Fortunately it was already ported to Flask and with little tweaking I was able to port it to Bottle. Please checkout the project a...
Kovai Memories 12 Apr 2012 | 04:21 pm
My last idly and coffee in Anandhas. My last lunch in Annapoorna. How much I miss it, particularly sambar. My first batch of students. My last batch of students. Monastic reading room & libr...
Learning Sign Language 8 Dec 2011 | 07:14 am
Recently I completed an introductory course in Indian Sign Language. Learning sign language is fun. Here is a video clip from our class. In the first part, we are practicing facial expressions without...
Indian Railways Database in JSON and SQL formats 3 Dec 2011 | 11:04 pm
Just released. Indian Railways Database contains the list of stations, trains and schedules of Indian Railways in SQLITE, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV and XLS formats. I hope this raw data enables developers t...
Indian Railways Database in JSON and SQL formats 3 Dec 2011 | 08:34 am
Just released. Indian Railways Database contains the list of stations, trains and schedules of Indian Railways in SQLITE, SQL, JSON, XML, CSV and XLS formats. I hope this raw data enables developers t...
Unlicensing my work 22 Nov 2011 | 08:32 pm
Starting from today, I am unlicensing (ie releasing to public domain) all my code, text and photos. I have been thinking about doing this for a while and unlicense.org provided the final push. Permal...
