Tagged: Programming

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Now Rusting

To be frank I wanted to learn something new. Something different but still part of my ecosystem. I looked at Go and Rust. I settled with Rust. Rust is very different from what I have learnt ( C, Java, JS, Python ) until now. It also looked like a language that would take...

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Call for Code – 2019

In the last five years I have seen how the technology has gotten used during the Mumbai Rains, Chennai Rains and Kerala Floods1. It’s been great to see that technology played a role in bringing some ease and swiftness to relief work. But it can do more if we are prepared. When I...

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Introduction to Querying JSON using JSONata

Table of Contents1 Getting Started1.1 Using JSconsole1.2 Into an HTML Page1.3 Using Try JSONata2 Let’s begin with some data3 Let’s write some more queries JSON is the defacto data format for web APIs. Usually getting the data you want out JSON means iterating through the arrays, find if the key exists and then...

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V7: Embeddable JavaScript Engine

For a project of mine I was looking for an embedded scripting language. Lua was my first choice. But not many outside gaming know Lua much. Even though I thought about JavaScript, I ignored it for a long time considering it isn’t great for an embedding. Recently I while exploring embeded systems I...

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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...

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...