This blog has been consistently rated as one of the top ten blogs in India, out of 20,000 blogs listed at Invesp BlogRank (for the past ~5 months, as of Feb 16, 2010) ... Read about how it happened.
New here? You'll find the most interesting stories under For Startuppers and For Lifehackers.
Snehal Pal says (on Jan 29, 2010): "His blog is an amazing assortment of advice and contains stories of life as a techie, startups and hacks."
Syed Talal (19 years old) says (on Jan 30, 2010): "The best thing I found was A Byte of Python, which is simply a brilliant book for a beginner. It's well written, the concepts are well explained with self evident examples."
Nishanth says (on Feb 15, 2010): "I have used vi for quite a while and am pretty comfortable with it. But all I do in vi is first get into insert mode and edit the file as if I am using notepad. I started searching for tutorials on vi and found one that is so simple yet so amazing. I thank Swaroop CH, yes the same guy who wrote the book A Byte of Python, for another amazing book A Byte of Vim. It was so amazing and I started using vi like a novice vimmer."
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I will be speaking in a panel at the HeadStart Conference, Hyderabad today regarding what is the funding that was granted by the Govt. of India to my ex-startup, and how you can apply.
I converted the content I had prepared into for-web-only slides for your perusal:
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
-- Thomas Alva Edison
This is a book on programming using the Python language. It serves as a tutorial or guide to the Python language for a beginner audience. If all you know about computers is how to save text files, then this is the book for you.
read onlineA Byte of Vim is a guide to help you to learn to learn about Vim, the text editor of choice for many programmers. This guide is aimed at both beginners who do not know anything about vi or vim and wish to learn how to become more productive in their writing, and intermediate users who wish to pick up advanced Vim tricks.
read onlineSwaroop C H is 27 years of age. He graduated in B.E. (Computer Science) from PESIT, Bangalore, India. He has previously worked at Yahoo! and Adobe. Read more about him.