Category: Technology

Sorry if its broken 8

Sorry if its broken

Theme updating is in progress :) The amount of green has reduced, i have tried my best to keep it as much as possible. There are new colors like blue and dark red now. Let me know what do you think. Still need to be worked on 1. Formatting pages 2. Wiki and...

Using Barcode Scanner for buying books in India 2

Using Barcode Scanner for buying books in India

isbn.net.in is the easiest way to get book prices from all e-stores in India. Given an ISBN code it gives prices from almost all e-stores in India, Very useful. But if you want to check book prices on the go (specially in a physical book store), then it’s not an easy. It’s tedious...

Javascript API for wordpress posts 1

Javascript API for wordpress posts

I have been looking at ways of using my activity stream. The stream is a WordPress blog and has various kinds of data (status msg, pictures, links and posts). Eventhough wordpress provides certain xml based APIs, I wanted something simple, that works on client side. One of the requirement was to pull the...

Support Bribe Bandh 0

Support Bribe Bandh

We need laws similar to RTI for activists to fight corruption.I think unless we citizen ask for it we wont get it. I Paid a Bribe as part of Bribe Bandh is collecting one million signatures to influence the Indian Government to tighten its laws against corruption. BRIBE BANDH Go ahead show your...

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Kindle and hacking heroes

After a very long break I am back into reading books. I must say my attention span has reduced. I had to concentrate hard for the first twenty pages to get into the groove. No internet (actually avoiding it) helped. I was at Hyderabad airport and flight was delayed by an hour. I...

From Java to Python 16

From Java to Python

If I remember properly I haven’t learnt any new language in last three years. All I had done was learning more libraries in Java, PHP and JavaScript. Partly because I was not interested in learning completely new language and its ecosystem. Also because there was no need. All my bread and butter work...