Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 30, 2008
The CBSE class 10 and 12 results have been out for a while (and so have I). They’re (e)mailing out large text files containing school-wise results if you happen to have your school code (it’s written on your admit card as “School Number”).
Large text files containing statistics and I don’t do anything with them? Impossible. I whipped up a quick Ruby script that can calculate and [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 17, 2008
Peppy is a very nice XEmacs like text editor written in Python using the WxWidgets toolkit. It’s a godsend for people like me who need to fully control their text editor, but do not want to learn a completely new domain specific language like Elisp or Vimscript. Now I can write plugins for my text editor using [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 8, 2008
I’m not really a Windows person. I prefer to use Linux simply because of the large repository of free development tools it offers. I’ve never had to dig too much to find the library/IDE/text editor/compiler/interpreter I wanted.
Today I just wanted to browse around the web a bit, so I booted into Windows (which I normally [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 5, 2008
I downloaded and got Python running on my mom’s old Nokia 6600. Heaven! I can actually program on the move! The best part is that PyS60 is officially supported and hence has a large, complete and stable API that I can use to control every aspect of the phone. The only qualm is that PyS60 [...]
Posted by: generalmaximus on: May 3, 2008
I want to plunge into computer science, and I want to do it now. I’m sickeningly tired of this competitive examinations thing. I just hope it gets over soon, so I can get on with my life. Just another month to go …
It’s been more than an year since I learned Python, and I still [...]
