Perl one-liner to sort a hash and return the top most key/value

October 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A while ago Deepz asked me whether we can sort a hash and print the top most key or value or both in a single line, in PERL. After a little permutation & combination, I wrote the following piece. I’m sure there must be a more elegant and efficient way of doing it, but this [...]

Oct

17

Vanilla Ice Cream that puzzled General Motors

October 17, 2007 | 24 Comments

Many of you, unlike me, might have come across this long ago, as it is in circulation for years now. But I just received it today and was spellbound by the incident. For those who are not aware of it, it goes like this – Never underestimate your Clients’ Complaint, no matter how funny it [...]

Oct

17

The Stranger – Amazing Short Story

October 17, 2007 | 15 Comments

I just received an email having a scanned document as an attachment. It seems to be some kind of a literature examination paper of some Soham Bandhopadhyay, and is a short story named THE STRANGER. It has been evaluated as excellent by the examiner and given the 1st place, deservingly so. A brilliant piece of [...]

Oct

16

Install Perl Modules without root

October 16, 2007 | 5 Comments

How many times Perl developers have to scratch their heads when they find that there is a module dependency which is breaking their code. Worse, they do not have sufficient privileges to install the required modules on the system. And the worst – there is no immediate way to get the module installed and the [...]

Oct

16

Golden Temple comes to Park Circus for Durga Puja

October 16, 2007 | 5 Comments

I couldn’t resist clicking this morning, as I was about to take cab for office from Park Circus. As always, the Durga Puja pandal at PC is turning out to be magnificent and this year’s theme is Golden Temple, Amritsar. Although not yet completed, with ornamentation and much of the frills yet to be done, [...]

Oct

15

My First JAPH!

October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment

Finally after procrastinating for long, I decided to tread the path traversed only by the GODs of PERL – writing JAPHs!! And my brain storming for about 6 hours finally ended with a JAPH, not too bad for a debut, albeit a little amateur. For those of who are still wondering what the heck is [...]

Oct

15

WebOSS ’07 – Web and Open Source Conference in Kolkata

October 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Finally, the day arrived this Saturday, October the 13th, when the first Web & Open Source Technology Conference took place in Kolkata. It was a great initiative to bring like-minded people on the same platform and share our views on all things Web, OSS and Technology. Since the venue host was WBUT , a large [...]

Oct

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I’m Speaking at WebOSS ’07

October 9, 2007 | 1 Comment

The first of its kind Web Technology Conference on Open Source Technologies, WEBOSS ’07 is being organised in Kolkata on Saturday 13th October, 2007. I was pleasantly surprised when Hussain (Hussu) , friend of Pradeep, called upon me to ask whether I would be interested in speaking at the event. The event focuses on Web [...]

Oct

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Durga Puja – 17 Days to go

October 1, 2007 | 1 Comment

Flash Movie Courtesy – http://www.friendskolkata.com/ Durga Puja, or better – Durga Pujo. You don’t need to be a Bengali by birth to know the significance of this great festival. People like myself, who have become de facto Bongs by the virtue of making Kolkata their home city, have long [...]