Yearly Archives for 2012
Goodbye wordpress (this time for real) - Hello Jekyll
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
Remember how I blogged about taking my toasted Toshiba laptop to the agents for repair about two mon...
Python list comprehension
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
var input = document.getElementById($("#from"));var autocomplete = new google.maps.places.Autocomple...
Ruby Symbols
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
Well, been an year since I had this Toshiba L655D, which was a replacement for my dead macbook. What...
Iterators and Generators and Yields
Both python and ruby have a yield which is thoroughly confusing to Java programmers and looks like t...
Python functions
We've already taken quick glance at python functions elsewhere, and know that they are created with ...
Python Packages, Modules and Classes
Modules
Python says Don't Repeat Yourself. This is made possible by module. A module is ...
Django
On thursday morning I set out to learn python and by saturday morning I had read through the officia...
Python Collections
Lists and Arrays.
Correct me if I am wrong here but lists in python are what everyone el...
Python in 48 hours
Spurred on by my recent success in quickly learning ruby, I am about to embark on a (crash) course ...
Ruby vs Python
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
Call it the Colombo Lies Exchange, the Colombo Jokes Exchange or all it whatever you want but please...
Etisalat Cloud Storage
Everyone knows about Google Drive by now even though it was announced just a day ago. No one knows a...
Ruby DBI
This is another left over post from my learn ruby project. Ran into trouble while learning how to us...
Joomla Worst CMS Ever
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
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
It's nearly two months since the automated trading system of the Colombo Stock Scam Exchange was upg...