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Happy Birthday GNOME...

Blog On August 22nd 1997, a phenomenon started to take its first steps. This was GNONE.

This has been a long way here. GNOME has come up from being a small project with relatively very very new toolkit in 1997 to a mature and rock solid desktop environment.
  • Aug 21, 2007 10:58 PM
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    • Ubuntu May Be The...

    Blog Now this is something real cool. Ubuntu, The Linux Distro that "Just Works", may well be the first distro to support those notorious winmodems, OUT OF THE BOX. Check out this discussions. Support for Winmodems under Linux had been a constant annoyance to many people, especially those from the...

    jQuery is Slow! huh!...

    Blog Dion Almer reports

    Claudio Cicali thinks benchmarks are boring and useless, so he decided to conduct a series of micro-benchmarks of CSS selector tests with both Prototype and jQuery. He decided to do this after he saw others observe:

    • Prototype (1.5+) has CSS selector syntax now
    • "jQuery is horribly...

    Reality behing Linux Based...

    Blog Recently, we have seen a huge growth in the sale of Linux based laptops. Bundling of Linux with the laptops has  considerably reduced the price tags with laptops available as low as Rs. 20,000 from ACi, Zenith Acer, and Sahara. But point is that are these laptops vendors accutally commited...

    How jQuery saved my...

    Blog While working on an assignment to write a front-end for Wikipedia, I ran into a lot of troubles. First, I searched if there was someone providing API's to get articles from wikipedia(I hate site scrapping). Found Ontok, after working on it for some time, I realized that id...

    Brief highlight of Python...

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    Highlights of Python 2.5:

    New Language Features
    • Internally, the Python compiler now converts the source code to an
      abstract syntax tree (AST) before producing the bytecode.
    • The 'with' operator replaces a common try/finally idiom that results in much
      cleaner and safer code.
    • Generators gained push, throw and close...

    Finaly! Python 2.5 it...

    Blog Python 2.5 is out. I am really excited about the new features in this version. Check out AMK's section on Whats New in Python 2.5.


    I will write my comments on the changes in new version in detail.

    Looking forward to get my hands...

    This touched my heart...

    Blog I just recieved a mail from one of my buddies Raashid Malik, with this short story. It almost managed to roll a tear down my cheek.

    ONE BEDROOM FLAT... AN INDIAN SOFTWARE ENGINEER'S
    LIFE... - A Bitter Reality

    As the dream of most parents I had acquired...

    Codding is the real...

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    Update: fixed some spelling mistakes.

    Today I recieved an email from 'barcamp_delhi', one of my subscribed mailing list on Yahoo Groups. It was about a friend of someone asking about a problem existing in the mindset of "Indian Programmers". It was a long email, but the whole point is summarized in...

    How many lines of...

    Blog Today I took an exercise. I tried to test how many lines of useful code can I produce per hour. Before going into the results, I will tell you about the strategy I adopted to take this exercise.

    Test Problem:
    Problem had to be something that I understood very...
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