Yearly Archives for 2012

Goodbye wordpress (this time for real) - Hello Jekyll

2012 Dec 26 at 01:57 » Tagged as: pydev , punch , jekyll , wordpress
The last post on this blog is from Aug 2012. Schedule pressure played a large part in my not writing...

M35

2012 Aug 7 at 05:04 » Tagged as: m35 , waterproof
Once upon a long ago, I used to work for Mediasolv.com Inc. They were one of the key partners when D...

Two months to get a Toshiba Laptop fixed

2012 July 4 at 04:29 » Tagged as: jkoa , toast , toshiba
Remember how I blogged about taking my toasted Toshiba laptop to the agents for repair about two mon...

Python list comprehension

2012 June 10 at 04:14 » Tagged as: vargs , python
Python list comprehension can be compared wtih  Ruby statement modifiers but it's even better. Here ...

Mixing google places and jQuery will lead to frustration

2012 May 27 at 13:30 » Tagged as: google , jquery
var input = document.getElementById($("#from"));var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomple...

Ruby Symbols

2012 May 14 at 07:28 » Tagged as: dbi , ruby
In my learn Ruby in 48 hours project, I left one black box unopened, Now I am attacking it with a ha...

Toshiba L655D Toast

2012 May 13 at 06:25 » Tagged as: l655d , toshiba , macbook , toast
Well, been an year since I had this Toshiba L655D, which was a replacement for my dead macbook. What...

Iterators and Generators and Yields

2012 May 12 at 03:04 » Tagged as: certification , threads , yield , python , ruby
Both python and ruby have a yield which is thoroughly confusing to Java programmers and looks like t...

Python functions

2012 May 8 at 15:59 » Tagged as: reduce , vargs , python , ruby
We've already taken quick glance at python functions elsewhere, and know that they are created with ...

Python Packages, Modules and Classes

2012 May 4 at 03:32 » Tagged as: coursera , python
Modules Python says Don't Repeat Yourself. This is made possible by module. A module is ...

Django

2012 May 3 at 07:25 » Tagged as: mysql , zope , django , python , ror , ruby
On thursday morning I set out to learn python and by saturday morning I had read through the officia...

Python Collections

2012 April 29 at 06:41 » Tagged as: map , reduce , python , ruby
Lists and Arrays. Correct me if I am wrong here but lists in python are what everyone el...

Python in 48 hours

2012 April 28 at 05:27 » Tagged as: vargs , python , ruby
Spurred on by my recent success in quickly learning ruby,  I am about to embark on a (crash) course ...

Ruby vs Python

2012 April 27 at 09:17 » Tagged as: xmpppy , django , python , religion , ror , ruby
Ruby and Python have been around for a long time almost as long as Java and PHP hang on a second, Py...

So where's the trade halt

2012 April 27 at 05:20 » Tagged as: xmpppy , cse , flash crash , mpi , trade halt
Call it the Colombo Lies Exchange, the Colombo Jokes Exchange or all it whatever you want but please...

Etisalat Cloud Storage

2012 April 26 at 13:24 » Tagged as: steganography , broadband , cloud
Everyone knows about Google Drive by now even though it was announced just a day ago. No one knows a...

Ruby DBI

2012 April 23 at 11:01 » Tagged as: dbi , mysql , ruby
This is another left over post from my learn ruby project. Ran into trouble while learning how to us...

Joomla Worst CMS Ever

2012 April 22 at 03:59 » Tagged as: node.js , joomla , cms , lame
Been a long time since I had a look at Joomla so decided to kick the tires on Joomla 2.5.4 but thing...

Ruby Rails - Could not find a JavaScript runtime

2012 April 21 at 13:22 » Tagged as: swap , javascript , ruby , virtualization
I recently had a series of posts on learing Ruby in less than 48 hours. I managed to do so in spite ...

CSE bugs still not fixed after two months

2012 April 20 at 04:16 » Tagged as: asi , cse
It's nearly two months since the automated trading system of the Colombo Stock Scam Exchange was upg...
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