Why I started loving Archlinux
We like simplicity. We like everything new. It's been some years since I switched completely to GNU/Linux. I always wondered at its stability, security, feat...
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C++
A simple square pattern in C++
Here's a small C++ program which outputs a square pattern according to the size entered. Code is given below : [sourcecode language="cpp" light="true"] /* * ...
Configure Gmail in Mutt easily!
It's always wonderful to play with terminal. Last week, I tried to configure my Gmail account in mutt, a powerful console based mail client, using this tutor...
Salt Analysis Simulator V1.0 - Released!
For the past few weeks, I have been coding to bring out a program to do salt analysis lab work virtually. We have salt Analysis as a part of plus two academi...
C++ Program to tweet
It's very interesting to play with C++ and if it is in GNU/Linux, lots of tools like 'wget', 'grep',etc. are there to help us in time. Here is a simple C++ s...
Easy Clarity - Connect Easily!
'Disconnection' is a routine process in dial up internet. Here is an C++ snippet which dials BSNL WLL Clarity without asking for password again and again. It...
e-FLAMES Beta now in GNU/Linux :)
Hello friends, I'm glad to present the Beta version of e-FLAMES for GNU/Linux before you. Thanks to Jesse, for his valuable header file with getch() functio...
Clarity
Easy Clarity - Connect Easily!
'Disconnection' is a routine process in dial up internet. Here is an C++ snippet which dials BSNL WLL Clarity without asking for password again and again. It...
Debian
Setting up a Debian repo in LAN
It was really a nice experience going to MES College Of Engineering, Kuttippuram last week to attend Debian Mini Conf 2011. Met friends, made new friendships...
Experiments
Chrome extension for multilingual input using jQuery.ime
It was fun attending Wikipedia DevCamp Banglore edition at IIM Bangalore. I got the opportunity to meet lots of people and had a memorable time building inte...
Python script for automatic synchronisation of ‘Read it later’ list and webpage
[caption id="attachment_461" align="alignright" width="229" caption="Adding to 'Read it later' list"][/caption] One of the powerful features of firef...
A python script to generate SQL queries for importing links/blogroll in another wordpress blog
Here's the problem: There are 30 precious links in my old blog under blogroll. Exporting feature of wordpress does not export the contents in blogroll/links....
Anagram Solver in C
Hi, Here's a small anagram solver written in C. It works based on generating permutations of given string and comparing them using a dictionary. For fast sea...
A cryptographic tool that converts weak password into a strong password before encrypting
Here's a small encryption/decryption tool that works based on AES algorithm. No matter how weak your password is, the program converts it to a 32 digits hex...
A small and simple note taking app
Wrote a small python script that can be used with your favorite text editor as a simple note taking application. Hope you like it, suggestions are always wel...
C program to extract email IDs from a file
Here's a small program to extract email IDs from an input file. It could have done using regex (in Python or in any other high level language), but doing it...
Setting up a Debian repo in LAN
It was really a nice experience going to MES College Of Engineering, Kuttippuram last week to attend Debian Mini Conf 2011. Met friends, made new friendships...
A sudoku checking program in C :)
It just started when my younger bro, Shafeeq who reads hacker news everyday, found a little interesting blog post. It was about the authors experience in app...
The little twitter client I use :)
Here's a small python script to update and read tweets from different timelines. You can use it with head/tail commands to customize the output. Actually, I...
Python Script to fix VBR errors of mp3 files in a directory, recursively
If the seek bar of your rhythmbox is not working with some mp3 files, it might be an issue with Variable Bit Rate of them. The tool, 'vbrfix' written by Will...
How to download .deb packages for offline installation
Some of my friends always complain that they are not able download packages due to Internet availability issues or usage limit. Most of them are using differ...
Python Script to backup tweets
It was some conversations in Twitter with @aashiks and @geohacker that made me write this script. The conversation goes like this: geohacker : What is the b...
Irssi notification in terminal using ‘write command’
In Desktop Environments like KDE or GNOME, we have special libraries like knotify or libnotify to display notifications from various applications. Some appli...
Connect TATA Docomo Internet in Ubuntu 9.04
It's wonderful to see people browsing in their mobile phones at work places and while they travel. Many Telecom companies provide cheap GPRS / EDGE based int...
The pleasure of solving!
It's been a quite long since I blogged something :) May be a writer's block* (*acronym for pure laziness,here);) Well, Last Saturday, I went to dxmk9 program...
C++ Program to tweet
It's very interesting to play with C++ and if it is in GNU/Linux, lots of tools like 'wget', 'grep',etc. are there to help us in time. Here is a simple C++ s...
Easy Clarity - Connect Easily!
'Disconnection' is a routine process in dial up internet. Here is an C++ snippet which dials BSNL WLL Clarity without asking for password again and again. It...
How to connect BSNL Clarity in ubuntu 9.04 ?
Though we have many tools to connect BSNL Clarity in Linux Systems, unfortunately they don't work in ubuntu 9.04 and in other lastest OS'. Here, i will expla...
Checknet V1.0 Alpha (GNU/Linux only)
Checknet is an application developed for slow Internet connection(especially Dial-up) users who likes to turn off monitor while downloading some files from t...
GSoC 2013
GSoC 2013: Week 10 of Grandham project
Last week I've been working on admin review feature to incorporate the new changes happened in the user end. With the addition of in-place editing feature, ...
GSoC 2013: Week 9 of Grandham project
In Week 9, I rewrote the complete crowdsourcing functionality of Grandham from a submission based approach to micro-edits based approach. Earlier we used to ...
GSoC 2013: Week 8 of Grandham project
Last weekly I mainly worked on Search feature and admin interfaces. Here's a quick review: Experimented with various search engines like Sphinx, Ferret, etc...
GSoC 2013: Week 7 of Grandham project
I couldn't post the weekly updates regularly for the last two times since I was kept more busy than I had expected and the festive holiday that came in betwe...
GSoC 2013: Week 6 of Grandham project
This week I've been mostly fixing bugs, refactoring code and building admin features. Grandham has built in checks to avoid duplication in Authors/Publishers...
GSoC 2013: Week 5 of Grandham project
Last week, I implemented different parts of the application including the basics of user authorization. Also did a work on refactoring the code base, our tes...
GSoC 2013: Week 4 of Grandham project
Last week, I worked on edit book feature and design mockups. Edit book feature As you know from previous posts, we have Submission model to store every contr...
GSoC 2013: Week 3 of Grandham project
In Week 3, I was mostly designing routes and developing the submission interface for Grandham. Submission Interface Grandham should have two interfaces for ...
GSoC 2013: Week 2 of Grandham project
Week 2 of Grandham was filled with more architecture decisions and implementations. Solving the versioning problem It's quite essential to store different us...
GSoC 2013: Week 1 of Grandham project
The first week of development which started on 17th of June essentially comprises requirement analysis, planning and API implementation. Requirement Analysis...
GSoC 2013: Updates on Grandham project
A couple of weeks before, We (Anivar, Manoj and me) had a meetup with Sri K. H. Hussain who is a pioneer in library science. He has worked in many projects i...
Hello Google Summer of Code 2013
This summer I'm contributing to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing through Google Summer of Code 2013 by developing an application called Grandham, a bibliograp...
Grandham
GSoC 2013: Week 10 of Grandham project
Last week I've been working on admin review feature to incorporate the new changes happened in the user end. With the addition of in-place editing feature, ...
GSoC 2013: Week 8 of Grandham project
Last weekly I mainly worked on Search feature and admin interfaces. Here's a quick review: Experimented with various search engines like Sphinx, Ferret, etc...
GSoC 2013: Week 7 of Grandham project
I couldn't post the weekly updates regularly for the last two times since I was kept more busy than I had expected and the festive holiday that came in betwe...
GSoC 2013: Week 6 of Grandham project
This week I've been mostly fixing bugs, refactoring code and building admin features. Grandham has built in checks to avoid duplication in Authors/Publishers...
GSoC 2013: Week 5 of Grandham project
Last week, I implemented different parts of the application including the basics of user authorization. Also did a work on refactoring the code base, our tes...
GSoC 2013: Week 4 of Grandham project
Last week, I worked on edit book feature and design mockups. Edit book feature As you know from previous posts, we have Submission model to store every contr...
GSoC 2013: Week 1 of Grandham project
The first week of development which started on 17th of June essentially comprises requirement analysis, planning and API implementation. Requirement Analysis...
GSoC 2013: Updates on Grandham project
A couple of weeks before, We (Anivar, Manoj and me) had a meetup with Sri K. H. Hussain who is a pioneer in library science. He has worked in many projects i...
Hello Google Summer of Code 2013
This summer I'm contributing to Swathanthra Malayalam Computing through Google Summer of Code 2013 by developing an application called Grandham, a bibliograp...
Ruby on Rails
Install RMagick 2.13.2 in macOS Sierra
Homebrew is usually pretty good at installing ImageMagick and I was wondering why it threw the following error when I tried to configure an old Rails project...
GSoC 2013: Week 10 of Grandham project
Last week I've been working on admin review feature to incorporate the new changes happened in the user end. With the addition of in-place editing feature, ...
GSoC 2013: Week 9 of Grandham project
In Week 9, I rewrote the complete crowdsourcing functionality of Grandham from a submission based approach to micro-edits based approach. Earlier we used to ...
GSoC 2013: Week 8 of Grandham project
Last weekly I mainly worked on Search feature and admin interfaces. Here's a quick review: Experimented with various search engines like Sphinx, Ferret, etc...
GSoC 2013: Week 7 of Grandham project
I couldn't post the weekly updates regularly for the last two times since I was kept more busy than I had expected and the festive holiday that came in betwe...
GSoC 2013: Week 6 of Grandham project
This week I've been mostly fixing bugs, refactoring code and building admin features. Grandham has built in checks to avoid duplication in Authors/Publishers...
GSoC 2013: Week 5 of Grandham project
Last week, I implemented different parts of the application including the basics of user authorization. Also did a work on refactoring the code base, our tes...
GSoC 2013: Week 4 of Grandham project
Last week, I worked on edit book feature and design mockups. Edit book feature As you know from previous posts, we have Submission model to store every contr...
GSoC 2013: Week 3 of Grandham project
In Week 3, I was mostly designing routes and developing the submission interface for Grandham. Submission Interface Grandham should have two interfaces for ...
GSoC 2013: Week 2 of Grandham project
Week 2 of Grandham was filled with more architecture decisions and implementations. Solving the versioning problem It's quite essential to store different us...
GSoC 2013: Week 1 of Grandham project
The first week of development which started on 17th of June essentially comprises requirement analysis, planning and API implementation. Requirement Analysis...
GSoC 2013: Updates on Grandham project
A couple of weeks before, We (Anivar, Manoj and me) had a meetup with Sri K. H. Hussain who is a pioneer in library science. He has worked in many projects i...
Announcing QuizGrid.com - A Social Network based on Quiz
I'm very happy to announce my recent hobby project - QuizGrid.com. It is a social network for people who love quiz. I've been observing an increasing number...
Releasing myfest.in - A web app to find and share campus fest and events!
I'm very happy to release my little hobby project myfest.in, a place where you can find and share campus fests across India. The backend is written in ruby u...
Fix for Rails 3.x.x error “[FATAL] failed to allocate memory” in OS X Lion
This error happens when mysql2 gem is either installed for some other version of mysql or when it cannot find required dynamic library. To fix this error, un...
Set up Rails 3.2.2 with Passenger, rvm and ngnix
Ruby on Rails is becoming more feature rich and powerful by every release. Naturally the steps to get it working in production environment are also being cha...
Software
GSoC 2013: Week 9 of Grandham project
In Week 9, I rewrote the complete crowdsourcing functionality of Grandham from a submission based approach to micro-edits based approach. Earlier we used to ...
GSoC 2013: Week 8 of Grandham project
Last weekly I mainly worked on Search feature and admin interfaces. Here's a quick review: Experimented with various search engines like Sphinx, Ferret, etc...
GSoC 2013: Week 7 of Grandham project
I couldn't post the weekly updates regularly for the last two times since I was kept more busy than I had expected and the festive holiday that came in betwe...
GSoC 2013: Week 6 of Grandham project
This week I've been mostly fixing bugs, refactoring code and building admin features. Grandham has built in checks to avoid duplication in Authors/Publishers...
GSoC 2013: Week 5 of Grandham project
Last week, I implemented different parts of the application including the basics of user authorization. Also did a work on refactoring the code base, our tes...
GSoC 2013: Week 4 of Grandham project
Last week, I worked on edit book feature and design mockups. Edit book feature As you know from previous posts, we have Submission model to store every contr...
GSoC 2013: Week 3 of Grandham project
In Week 3, I was mostly designing routes and developing the submission interface for Grandham. Submission Interface Grandham should have two interfaces for ...
GSoC 2013: Week 2 of Grandham project
Week 2 of Grandham was filled with more architecture decisions and implementations. Solving the versioning problem It's quite essential to store different us...
GSoC 2013: Week 1 of Grandham project
The first week of development which started on 17th of June essentially comprises requirement analysis, planning and API implementation. Requirement Analysis...
GSoC 2013: Updates on Grandham project
A couple of weeks before, We (Anivar, Manoj and me) had a meetup with Sri K. H. Hussain who is a pioneer in library science. He has worked in many projects i...
Announcing QuizGrid.com - A Social Network based on Quiz
I'm very happy to announce my recent hobby project - QuizGrid.com. It is a social network for people who love quiz. I've been observing an increasing number...
TalentSpace
TalentSpace and the 2 months BootCamp program
A few months back I joined BigBinary as remote Software Developer and relocated to Kochi to stay close with family and friends. It's an unique experience wor...
Talks
It was really a wonderful experience at MES :)
Yesterday, I went to MES College of Engineering to deliver a small talk on programming and free software, it was entirely a new experience for me. A bigger c...
python
Python script for automatic synchronisation of ‘Read it later’ list and webpage
[caption id="attachment_461" align="alignright" width="229" caption="Adding to 'Read it later' list"][/caption] One of the powerful features of firef...
A python script to generate SQL queries for importing links/blogroll in another wordpress blog
Here's the problem: There are 30 precious links in my old blog under blogroll. Exporting feature of wordpress does not export the contents in blogroll/links....
A cryptographic tool that converts weak password into a strong password before encrypting
Here's a small encryption/decryption tool that works based on AES algorithm. No matter how weak your password is, the program converts it to a 32 digits hex...
A small and simple note taking app
Wrote a small python script that can be used with your favorite text editor as a simple note taking application. Hope you like it, suggestions are always wel...
The little twitter client I use :)
Here's a small python script to update and read tweets from different timelines. You can use it with head/tail commands to customize the output. Actually, I...
Python Script to fix VBR errors of mp3 files in a directory, recursively
If the seek bar of your rhythmbox is not working with some mp3 files, it might be an issue with Variable Bit Rate of them. The tool, 'vbrfix' written by Will...
Python Script to backup tweets
It was some conversations in Twitter with @aashiks and @geohacker that made me write this script. The conversation goes like this: geohacker : What is the b...