Turtle graphics is all about making a ‘turtle’ to move around on the computer screen. The turtle leaves a trail while moving around. So if the Turtle is made to move in a straight line, it draws a straight line on the screen, if the turtle moves in a circle, it results in drawing a […]
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Riding the Turtle with Ruby
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
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IPC with D-Bus in Linux
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
D-bus is an interprocess communication mechanism using message buses. It is a way for running applications to communicate with one another.
Eg: We can write a program that communicates with Pidgin the IM program to get the buddy list.
Developers can enable D-bus support in their applications and expose a set of functionalities to be accessed […]
Listening and Talking to your Linux Box
January 25th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Traditional ways in which our computer applications ‘talks’ to us is by displaying lines of text or may be images or animations/videos. Apart from the occasional beep/alert sounds, the normal computer applications try to communicate to the user only visually. I wanted to go a few steps ahead and write some applications that would […]
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Is new necessarily better?
September 19th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
I know, most of you would immediately reply “no” to that. But it seems many software products, especially online ones, seem to be forgetting that. I am not sure if I am ranting, but what brought this on? One of my favorite online services, actually. I am an avid user of Bloglines, and I am […]
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