There are 2 types of people I have seen in the software industry. One who just wants to hold on to his/her whatever job he/she has got, doesn’t want to learn new things, doesn’t want to try new things and definitely doesn’t want to take any initiative. And there’s another type – and I must […]
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It’s one thing to know that you will see more than thousand women in computing in one place and it’s completely another thing when you actually see technical women all around you talking, laughing, networking with each other at the conference venue. The day 2 of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in […]
It’s super exciting to attend Grace Hopper Conference India 2014. The first day had 2 parallel day-long events – a hackathon and a bootcamp on Ruby on Rails. Since I didn’t pre-register for the hackahon, I attended the Bootcamp during the first half and some time in the second half. But most of the second […]
Forgot to post about it. The Wikipedia Editathon that I co-organized along with Shobha from Breakthrogh got featured in Business Line. Nandini Nair, a journalist with the newspaper publishing house, came to attend the event and talk to us and we got this nicely written article – “Page not found“. Enjoy!
Breakthrough and Women in Free Software and Culture in India are organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in collaboration with Wikimedia India to create articles on Women Parliamentarians and Women Scientists in India on Wikipedia to highlight the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. Through this event we encourage women and transwomen to […]
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Informative talk on regexp
I was talking to a friend 3 days back and I was telling her how important it is for us to keep on learning new things. In fact it is one of my worse fears that I’ll be out-of-date someday and will not be compatible with the modern day world. While advising her to start […]
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The elusive memory error
It involved a crash with 32 bit optimized build of an executable which was running fine with 32 bit or 64 bit debug build and even with 64 bit optimized build. No crash with debug build, hence no debug symbols! I started printing out logs “inside this function : All looking good”. This exercise led […]
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Got featured in Indian Express
The Indian Express published an article on women who are passionate about technology, gaming among other such things. Focus on this topic is rare in India and I was happily surprised when Shobha contacted me and asked for my views to be included in the article. Here’s the link to the epaper. Enjoy!
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Gnome 3.10 released
Gnome 3.10 is released and it has some cool features. It feels good that Geolocation and Maps application are part of it. I wrote the client and server for GeoIP based GeoLocation when I was doing my OPW internship with Gnome Foundation. Initially the libraries were part of geocode-glib, but the code for GeoIP has […]