OK, I’ve been working on a small project for the last week. It’s not complete, but for once one of my projects has gone beyond the I’ll-do-it-someday stage and reached the it-almost-could-work stage, so I’m putting it out in the open.
Book Prices is a screen scraper I wrote to compare prices of, well, books across [...]
Note: You can read this, it’s spoiler free, the few hints at the plot are as vague I can make them.
I had ordered the book online this time, so didn’t go to my favorite shop early morning to pick it up. It got delivered at 5pm—I am sure I behaved horribly yesterday till then. I [...]
Another old video: Linus Torvalds’ Tech Talk on git. It’s very entertaining… With all the buzz git is getting lately, I am itching to try it. Alas, the Windows port doesn’t work well (yet); I guess I’ll stick with Darcs till I get a new machine.
I wrote my first Greasemonkey script today—can’t believe that I have been using it for so long but had not tried to write something myself. It’s nothing worth sharing, just a minor hack for my own convenience…
Filing returns online was easy—who would have thought that the Indian Income Tax Department would be this tech savvy!
Am sick, and at home. So made a couple of tweaks: put in adsense on all the post pages, and updated some Javascript I’m using (or planning to).
A hugely anticipated book release approaches—time to start dodging spoilers…