A container for all my views with excerpts from technology, travel, films, books, kannada, friends and other interests. I am Thejesh GN, friends call me Thej.
For most of us who work with data, Scraping is the default way to get the data out of public internet. To give you an example what it means. Lets say you have a published URL like http://openbangalore.org/postbox/pb/pincode/571120 which gives you the postboxes in the pincode area 571120. If you are smart enough...
I bought a new Karbonn SmartTab2. It was roughly INR 7K ($140). Many of my friends were surprised that I bought a cheap tablet (especially because I have plans of upgrading my Nexus One by year end). I have been exploring cheap tablets for a while and I settled down for SmartTab at...
Update: Its become an all India postbox data collection project. Now we use the tag #openpostboxindia. The source code is open sourced and can be used for any type of photo and location based data collection using Instagram and Twitter. I have been using instagram a lot. If you follow me on instagram...
Running an internet accessible server means you are opening yourself to crackers. Running the server in itself is a risk, so risk management is of top priority when you open up the ports for accessing the server. The standard ports are 80(http), 443(https) and mostly 22(for ssh). Port 22 is the most important...
Update: Bangalore Open Data Repository has a new home. Its called OpenBangalore.org. Please bookmark it, I have been collecting data about Bangalore for years. The collected data includes GIS, election, weather reports etc and were from different sources. I have been meaning to distribute it online for a while now. Two big reasons...
I have been wanting to do this for a long time now. At last thejeshgn.com is available through https. It’s mostly done for my own use than my readers. I wanted to protect the admin screen (basically wp-admin). Given that I use my own VPN on public wifi, it may seem less important....
Thejesh GN (ತೇಜೇಶ್ ಜಿ.ಎನ್) "Thej" is an Independent Technologist, Hacker, Maker, Traveler, Blogger, InfoActivist, Open data and Open internet enthusiast from Bangalore, India. He loves experimenting with all things life and hence some times he is called hacker and other times duct tape. You can read more about him here. Email [ i @ thejeshgn dot com]. PGP/GPG Keys are here.
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