AJAX Picture Gallery using jQuery

October 23, 2007 | 4 Comments

I have been longing for a custom picture gallery for quite some time, to showcase my pictures, but did not want to go for a ready made solution like Coppermine or Gallery. Sure these are great products with endless features, but would not give me that MADE BY MYSELF feeling So I decided to tinker [...]

Oct

17

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

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

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 [...]