Posted: 2011/06/03 13:51:45
How much load a human body can sustain ? One might ask US Navy SEALs for the answer. Joe McNally showed us some inside view of the faces during Hell Week and “SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper” gives the view from the recruits’.
Wondering if we can find such information/books on our Indian counterparts ?
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Posted: 2011/05/03 12:45:28
I think the best musical evening in my life still now. Yesterday I spent the evening with Ustad Fazal Qureshi, Milind Date, Ravi Iyer and Sridar Parthasarathy. We spent first two hours in a room on the 18th floor of Marriott talking on various topics. Then they put the fire on stage for the next 30 minutes :) Photos and videos will come out in next few days.
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Posted: 2011/03/21 13:50:23
It was time for Holi once again :)
Was in the action with my new 24-70. Found people totally drowned in colour
Little kids enjoying as much as they can
Among all the chaos and fun and colours, still found people alone while trying to dry up.
Many smiling faces also.
People dancing with all crazy styles.
One can find the whole set here.
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Posted: 2011/02/11 14:55:14
We reached Durgapur around 3:30AM on Friday, woke up by 6AM due to the really cold temperature. The inauguration event started few hours late and after that Mether started doing his RPM workshop.
My workshop started after 6:30PM , around 60+ students. Started with basics of python as a language. I did this workshop slowly so that everyone can pick the things we were discussing.
Next day morning my second session started from 10AM and in the afternoon I had my PyGtk workshop in the lab. After finishing talking for more than 6 hours did the final talk for the night with the first year students. Total time I spoke was more than 7 hours , which is a record for me :)
3rd day again started at 10AM and I was surprised to see more than 30 students in the seminar hall where I was doing the python workshops. We discussed in details various modules in python and also discussed about projects for the students.
Generally I don't get many mails from the students after the workshops or even if they do mail , they don't continue. But here I found 3 students still continuing. I hope at least one of them will be able his/her journey in the path of freedom.
Photos can be found
here. Will update the post with flickr set when I upload there.
UPDATE: flickr set can be found here.
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Posted: 2011/01/07 16:18:42
Goto System->preferences-keyboard
Add a new Indian English keyboard with RupeeSign (in layout tab), move it to the top by clicking “move up” button.
Now you can type ₹ by pressing AltGr + 4 :) Thanks goes to pravin
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Posted: 2010/12/22 15:11:20
This is the easiest way to identify which distro I am using. Please don’t take them away.
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Posted: 2010/09/28 09:05:07
So I am back from PyCon India 2010. I missed last year, so was waiting for this year’s event. Met many faces after very long time and to be in a place with so many other python lovers is always a nice experience. The total attendance was around 700 but the venue was too big for that number , so except the lunch time, corridors had lesser number of people discussing. The selection of the talks were also matching the environment as they came from different directions. We saw talks with hardware accessibility to web development to GUI application toolkits, network programming, scientific computing, terminal based works etc.
Day 1 started a bit late, David Goodger gave the keynote, it was fun. Next talk I liked was from Dhananjay Nene on “
Functional Programming with Python”, he managed to show many things within the short time.
I stood in the queue for lunch as soon as possible, it was late, too much crowd at the same time, but the taste of the food was delicious. During and after the lunch I was discussing with Jace about
Wing IDE, I had a thought of buying that previously also but the price is high for me. Wait, not anymore, they gave a 90% discount for the PyCon India :) Started using it right away with vi mode and it works like a charm.
Met DP and Jacob after long time :)
This was first time my laptop’s X crashed while trying to use the projector, so after few tries I started my talk with the black terminal on the big screen :) newt widgets looked great on that screen though :)
Day 2: I came a bit late as I had to meet few seniors from my college in the city (event was in a far corner of the city), I spent the day mostly in the corridors talking with people. I met so many Pune based python lovers there :) Strangely enough few speakers were absconding from the talks, so the organizers had to innovate to fill in.
At the very end we had first AGM of Indian Python Software Society, too much fun in that :p. I applied for membership, I still need two votes. I also resumed my work on
“Python for you and me” 2nd edition. You can also read
ml-IN or
zh-CN translation of the book.
Any python lover from the country should attend this event, next year it will be in Chennai. Photos will come later this week.
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