Category: Technology

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HappyTuesday Week 5 – Learning Lua

Its been a while I learnt a new programming language. I have been very happy with Python. All most all the work that I do involves Python. But there has been an itch to learn something new. So I made up my mind to learn a new programming language this week. But again...

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Archive any blog/website onto Web using archive-it

They say Internet doesn’t forget anything. But link decay is very common on the web. The things that are visible today on web vanish tomorrow. Links become inaccessible and hence linkrot. But there are services like internet way back machine or archive.today which backup the web pages to find the content for rotten...

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Notes from first Data BootCamp India

First ever DataBootCamp in India was organized by ICFJ in collabaration with Data{Meet}, HT, Hacks/Hackers – New Delhi, 9.9 School of Journalism in Delhi. It was a three-day event hosted by Bridge School of Management. It was an interesting gathering as more than 50% were from journalistic background. I have never seen such...

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Bureau of Indian Standards and Open Access

Lets say you want to buy a bicycle tube. How do you know which one is the best? how do you know which cycle tube is made as per specification prescribed by Govt for safety? You go by ISI mark right? How do you know what that standard means? How do you know...

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Triggering Innovation by Opening up Govt Data

I was at Takshashila’s Shaping India’s Growth Agenda: Implications for the World conference listening to Innovation panel. The main debate revolved around what should Government do to catalyze the innovation in India. There were obvious suggestions like funding, policy support, taxation and not being a hindrance to business etc to increase the innovation....

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HappyTuesday Week 4 – TI EZ430 Chronos Watch Setup

Last week was little crazy. I actually couldn’t find time to do the things that I would like to do on a Tuesday But met couple of interesting people from the internet. I must say the open data scene in India is opening up. BTW if you are interested in Open Data Scene...