Author: Thejesh GN

Tejasvi, Kaanooru HeggaDathi, Surving Everest and Peru are on my list 4

Tejasvi, Kaanooru HeggaDathi, Surving Everest and Peru are on my list

When I first met Sri Tejaswi at Bangalore University I didn’t expect him to know so much about computers. He had so many questions for me. He was interested in everything from Windows to Linux to Free and Open source software. So I had good time talking to him about software and Open...

WordPress Comment Plugin for Indic Languages 7

WordPress Comment Plugin for Indic Languages

Last few days I have been reading more books, coding more scriptlets than twittering or blogging here. I am yet to decide on coffee project of this month. I might send it to Wikimedia Foundation as I don’t have any other project in my mind. Two weeks back I was at Google Developer...

BCCI has some idiotic rules for linking 9

BCCI has some idiotic rules for linking

As most of you know jumbo retired and I was trying to gather information on him to write about. I was searching for some pics on BCCI site to see if I can post any pictures from there. The answer is NO you can not use any pictures from there.  Fare enough as...

Why comments in the code are not always good! 8

Why comments in the code are not always good!

Why comments in the code are not always good! (1) Because they are not updated. When ever the code is changed, the comments should also be changed. But it may happen like the code is updated but not the comments which may confuse the next developer. (2) Maintenance problem. Highly commented code is...

Live blogging Chandrayaan 1 14

Live blogging Chandrayaan 1

I was waiting for this day since they announced Chandrayaan. Its one of the biggest moment for every Indian’s life. How can I let it go out of my hand. I blogged it live from my home. There were other friends online along with me to watch the launch together virtually. It feels...

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City of Helsinki

Helsinki or Helsingfors is the capital and largest city of Finland. Thanks to Nokia and Womworld I got a chance to visit Helsinki. After three days of very interesting OpenLab workshop, I had two days to roam around in Helsinki. Like any backpacker I looked for a Hostel to stay. The Helsinki Stadium...