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Open source in corporates 4 Jun 2013 | 11:42 am
[This is a post that I’d published internally in InfyBlogs in Dec 2009. Time to share it.] Last month, my first application went live. I’ve been writing code for 20 years. Not one line of my code has ...
The scary Internet 3 Jun 2013 | 11:29 am
I’m not that difficult to scare, and this log message certainly didn’t help: ip223.hichina.com [223.4.183.127] failed - POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT! That’s the message I saw – one thousand five hundred ...
Hosting options 1 Jun 2013 | 10:48 am
I’ve been trying out a number of options for hosting recently, and have settled on Amazon spot instances. Here were my options: Application hosting, like Google AppEngine. I used this a lot until 2 ye...
Visualising networks 11 May 2013 | 04:52 pm
Some slides from my talks on visualising networks. (These are part of a series of talks I’m giving at a number of forums; the one at The Fifth Elephant is open to public.)
Geocoding in Excel 8 May 2013 | 02:17 pm
It’s easy to convert addresses into latitudes and longitudes into addresses in Excel. Here’s the Github project with a downloadable Excel file. This is via Visual Basic code for a GoogleGeocode functi...
Goodbye Google 16 Mar 2013 | 04:29 pm
Google Reader was where I spent most of my browsing time, but now, it’s shutting down. Time for alternatives, but not just for Reader: for all Google products. I’m not sure when one of these might go ...
Github page-only repository 14 Dec 2012 | 07:54 am
Github offers Github Pages that let you host web pages on Github. You create these by adding a branch to git called gh-pages, and this is often in addition to the default branch master. I just needed ...
The most popular scientific Python modules 11 Dec 2012 | 07:37 am
I just scraped the scientific packages on pypi. Here are the top 50 by downloads. Name Description Size Downloads numpy NumPy: array processing for numbers, strings, records, and objects. 2000000 1330...
Streaming audio to iOS via VLC 13 Oct 2012 | 08:50 pm
You can play a song on your PC and listen to it on your iPhone / iPad – converting your PC into a radio station. As with most things VLC related, it’s tough to figure out but obvious in retrospect. Th...
Magnetix 2 Oct 2012 | 02:22 pm
I wasn’t entirely sure, but now I’m somewhat convinced: Magnetix magnets can form an infinite chain that won’t break due by its own weight. (This is not true, however, if you introduce the steel bea...
