The Viamentis Blog

While reading blogs and other online documents, emails etc, I always come across words whose meaning is not known to me. Usually I lookup these words using Ubuntu’s Dictionary application . Copying the word, pasting it in the text field of the dictionary app, hitting “Search”, and then waiting for results - this was proving […]

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As you might notice, my blogging has gone down a bit - and you might have also observed that there are lot more posts by Unni & Divya, my colleagues. Chalk that up to new projects, and lots of higher priority items. I’m slowly coming to realize, running an actual business is not so easy […]

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When we build a web page that contains data which gets updated very frequently (eg: Share price of Google, or score of a live cricket match), it would be extremely useful if we could ‘push’ data into the webpage, without the user having to ‘pull’ the data by reloading the page or requesting explicitly.

Juggernaut […]

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I happened to see a ruby library called Blinkenlights, which helps to control the three LEDs (Caps lock, Scroll lock & Num lock) on keyboards. I have written few simple programs to play with the keyboard LEDs - basically simulation of three experiments I did in my Digital Electronics lab - Binary Counter, Ring […]

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