tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77029690836806236792011-11-28T05:52:01.657+05:30This is my space where I publish about my experiments with life.Thejaswi Puthrayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01053527583299230530noreply@blogger.comBlogger201100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7702969083680623679.post-80861503897117208472007-11-22T07:13:00.000+05:302007-11-22T07:17:45.708+05:30

I have moved my blog to http://thejaswi.info/ . Will post quite regularly over there. All those who have bookmarked my blog can update it to point to my new blog. I will also post selected posts here for backward-compatibilty ;-)

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I am a part-time webdesigner and developer and here are the top 5 Firefox extensions in my list (ordered according to rank).1) Firebug: A must for every webdesigner. For beginners, there is Aardvark2) Webdeveloper: Another must for webdesigners.3) Greasemonkey: A cool addon that can be used to jazz up sites, scrap all your friends in a jiffy in Orkut and also to download Youtube videos...This is

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On September 6th, KDE 4 (Beta 2) was released and lots of noise is being generated in the blogosphere and in the OSS world. Most of the people were touting it as a revolution in the desktop world.Curious I decided to try it out but didn't want to install a beta version on my computer. So I decided to download a Livecd based on KDE 4 and then use Qemu to emulate it and have a look.True enough, KDE

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It's been a long time since I blogged. Part of the reason was laziness and the other part was that I needed good content to blog on.Now I have overcome both and here's my new post.I have learnt from my experience that users (and developers alike!!!) mainly adopt projects which have comprehensive documentation. Just look at some of the most successful OSS projects, they devote a lot of time and

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This is a continuation of my previous blog post. In this blog I'll explain of how to display error messages whenever a constraint is violated (but this works only in Postgresql, to know the reason why it doesn't work with other databases....read on).Starting from where I left off, let us refine the views to integrate better error checking...from django.http import HttpResponsefrom letsee.models

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Last week, my friend had an interesting comment to make on my project. He felt it was academic and hardly had any utility. This got me thinking and I wondered if I could use some of Django's cool features and get my project to work with them effortlessly. Then I thought of writing a small test project to show how Newforms (one of the coolest features of Django) and Django Check Constraints

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Recently I came across Google Trends, a service that helps the user see what other users are searching on the net and compare search queries if any.Tempted I decided to compare "Yahoo and Google" and look at what the result shows:"Yahoo is more popular than Google!!!". Not satisfied I decided to check if the result also held true for "India". Here's the result of that:Looks like Google is

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"AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHH"! My frustation knew no bounds when I came across wierd problems in IE. I justed wanted to blast Bill Gates and his IE team. They made me realize that IE sucks and it sucks big time.The college IEEE student branch is planning to organize its annual technical festival very soon and the immediate requirement was to design a website and they enlisted me for the purpose. Being a

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Well this post is a continuation of the post here. I finished reading the book in about 3 days. That should probably give you an idea about how "interesting" it might be.Karl Fogel is a veteran in the open source field. He has participated in many open source projects at varying levels over the past decade, though his contribution to the Subversion project is deepest (he works for Collabnet).

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The whole day of May 31st I was glued on to my computer waiting for the Fedora folks to release their most awaited distro "Fedora 7" (codenamed "Moonshine", here's a clue to how they generate codenames : All Fedora Codenames are related to "The Superman series").Finally at 9 PM (IST) their site was updated and I laid my hand on the Torrent(recommended method of downloading the distro).On June 2nd

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Coding for Google Summer of Code began on May 28th and I have been busy working on the project and also attending college (attending those crap campus placement training sessions). The progress of the project so far has been decent.After getting selected in the SoC, Google had promised a surprise for all the selected students. All they revealed was that it would be a special book. Today, I

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Yesterday, I took a day off from college to open a savings account to receive the first installment from Google (if you were wondering why, here it is).My dad recommended State Bank of India because he currently holds an account with them and envisioned that the future transactions between the two of us would become painless and instant (Thanks to Internet Banking).Being an obedient son, I headed

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Yesterday on May 26th, I got my fourth opportunity to give a talk at the Indian Linux Users Group of Hyderabad. It was on my favourite programming language....Python.I had prepared for a two hour talk on Python but had to be content with a 50 minute time slot (because the previous talk ate into my slot).The talk began with a customary introduction of Python, its history, apps etc. Then I went

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I was surprised to read an article on BBC that stated that YouTube had eaten substantially into television's already declining viewership. Many others did not even find it worth taking note of because they had envisioned that YouTube would be a disruptive application (true in more than a sense). An even more surprising fact was that digital TV had failed to live up to people's expectations.On the

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Not long ago, I wanted to perform a database search but didn't want to use the LIKE Pattern Matching of MySQL or the TSEARCH2 in PostgreSQL. The other issue that I had was that it had to be done from within a web application. My favourite web framework is Django(because of a huge list of reasons) and I expected it to have some facility for Full Text Database Search but was disappointed. But the

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Well it has been a long time since I blogged about algorithms (my last post on alogrithms here). As promised I am back with the quicksort algorithm. The quicksort alogrithm that I've written is recursive in nature against the iterative implementation.Though the iterative implementation is efficient because there is a lower memory overhead as compared to its recursive implelementation, it is very

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Dubbed as the LUG Meet of the shortest (and probably the sweetest) month (February 24,2007) the meet had a few surprises in store.First the meeting attendance soared to 27 and secondly there was a sizeable audience from Virtusa and Hyderabad Central University.From ILUGHYDFrom ILUGHYDAfter the customary introduction, the meet began at 6:45 pm with Abrar Kazi, an open source enthusiast explaining

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Very often I come across friends downloading songs in RM (Real Media) Format because they are very small in size. But after downloading them they realize that their favourite MP3 (portable) player cannot play them and get frustrated. Here is a small Vorbis vs MP3 vs Real vs Microsoft MediaNow I write a small how-to convert RM Format to MP3 Format using Mplayer and Lame (standard applications in

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Osmania University has been gracious enough to accomodate an Industrial Tour in the curriculum. Though meant to give an exposure to real time industrial experiences, it has ended up serving as a mini vacation with a small portion of time allotted for industrial visits.For my class the preparation began as soon as the semester exams finished. First there was intense lobbying for the places of

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Recently I got my hand on the book "Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms" by S.E.Goodman and S.T.Hedetniemi published by the Mc-Graw Hill Company. The book is out of print now and I found it in a library. The book had never been lent and I was the lucky first person to borrow it (20 years after it had been bought). This highlights the negligience of libraries and reading habits

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