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Swaroop 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.
Email: swaroop (at) swaroopch.com
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March 2010
- How to get funding from Government of India
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February 2010
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December 2009
- Fun can change behavior
- Musings on 2009
- The 5-year limit to being a coder in India?
- The magic of foss.in
November 2009
- Coding Problems for Homework
- Leaving IonLab
- An interactive version of A Byte of Python
- What I learned at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009
October 2009
September 2009
August 2009
- Core Needs
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- iPhone for productivity
- Twitter vs. Why we can't concentrate?
- 10 things I wish I was serious about before starting a startup
July 2009
June 2009
- My Benchmark for Entrepreneurship
- Duathlon and Murakami
- A few statistics about India
- One device or many?
- No book on Emacs
May 2009
- Has your company chosen its vector of innovation?
- How to build an online community?
- Coming soon... TrackEveryCoin, a personal finance system
- Ideas are Cheap : IMDB of Music, Books?
- A new kind of wiki
- Interview with CocoaCast
April 2009
- The difference between fun and work
- Chunking
- The new ION packaging
- Vote for the Candidate
- I hate tabs
- What is your ideal personal finance life?
- One year since I had a salary
- Idli, Orchid and Will Power
March 2009
- Mindmaps
- From Google Reader to MyAlltop
- What's in a name, indeed?
- Thought for the Day
- Where to find startup jobs in India?
- Barcamp Bangalore 8
- Why Vista (Still) Sucks
- Mobile phone is half the PC
February 2009
- Tadiyandamol Again
- Let's talk about future of webapp development at BCB8
- Ideas are Cheap : Kannada Word Lists
- What's your vision for Bengaluru?
- Why Stack Overflow is useful
- Get into the Flow
January 2009
- Product for the future
- Water Sports in Sharavathy Valley
- Outliers : What leads to Success
- Refocus on the Basics
December 2008
- Why use Creative Commons license?
- It is not obvious how to make money online
- "My Online Life" in Mint
- How Fresh Graduates Can Grow
- What product creation should be about
November 2008
- Great response to 'A Byte of Vim'
- Announcing my free book on Vim
- Bangalore Ultra Marathon 2008
- ROAM - Just the bike. The rider. And a place to ride.
- Thought for the Day
- Ideas are Cheap: Touch screen device with a browser
- Internet usage in India
October 2008
- Mullainagiri, third time lucky as well
- Common activities means better friends
- Are electric scooters viable?
- Politicians should have a retirement age
- A principled life according to Steve Pavlina
- What we do at IONLAB
- A Byte of Python in hard copy
September 2008
- Ideas are Cheap : Better email
- Cycling To Work at Barcamp Bangalore 7
- IONLAB - The Next Experiment
- How to make a website
- Personal Wiki
- Book updated for Python 3.0
August 2008
- Ideas are Cheap : Real Coding Training
- Cycling on Kanakapura Road
- How attractive is your website?
- New Theme
- Specialization vs Generalization
- Social networks of yore
July 2008
- Indian Innovations for the Energy Challenge
- proto.in Edition 4 at Delhi
- Ideas are Cheap - Build your mobile
- Tips for Working From Home
- The meaning of Touch
- Trekking in Kodachadri
June 2008
- To live unconventionally
- Super Crunchers
- The Need to Fight
- Cricket on your desktop
- Launch of ion2
- Sharavathy Valley Day 2
- Sharavathy Valley Day 1
May 2008
- Cut down that movie
- Smart Techie Startup City
- Avenue Road
- The Sunfeast 10K run
- Always remember Carpe Diem
- How to handle information overload
- Career Advice
- Biking to Ooty
April 2008
- Why television and movies are captivating
- Happy Birthday to ion
- Barcamp Bangalore 6 Day 2
- Barcamp Bangalore 6 Day 1
- Why You Should Run
- Web dev frameworks vs RIA
- Last day at Adobe
March 2008
- Thought for the Day
- Aware Songs
- Guess who?
- A Business Mind
- What is NDTV’s online strategy?
- A productive homepage
- How about an Indian amateur music album?
- Two unofficial traffic rules in India
February 2008
- Technology can be beautiful
- Why does crowdsourcing work?
- Friendship Formula
- Searches leading to this website
- It’s the journey lah!
- Dream Running Route
January 2008
- Urban Development
- Pulau Ubin Island
- Useful Websites for India
- How to defend India?
- Promenade in Esplanade
- Sankranti Rituals
- How to recognize an American tourist?
- Ancient or Modern Society?
- Innovation in Indian universities?
December 2007
- Hitting the books
- Utopia
- Singapore
- Web Innovation 2007 Day 2
- Web Innovation 2007 Day 1
- First Bangalore Ultra Marathon
- Why I am not running the BSNL Bangalore International Marathon
- Best quote I’ve read in a while
- Vegetable 2.0
November 2007
October 2007
- Getaway
- Closed source on Linux is hard
- raison d’être
- Hack Day videos
- Hack Day India
- Announcing Flex Builder on Linux
- Why students and open source?
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
- Software as a living organism
- What really happens with feedback forms…
- ion logo designs
- Alias
- Marathons in India in 2007
June 2007
- Big Bazaar, India Central, Future Dreams
- Mumbai Family Trip
- Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild()
- Why iCon
- Look out for the new RadioVeRVe
May 2007
- Widget for Webaroo Gupshup
- Thought for the Day
- Midnight Marathon
- ionized
- yahoo ishtyle parikrma
- Interview of Abishek Nair
April 2007
- Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source
- ion and the police
- The ion : ipod charger, mobile charger and more
- Big Brother
- pink-e
March 2007
- Outlook on Linux : Evolution Exchange
- Whoa to Woe
- Sights of a little town
- Why p2p in a browser
- Thought for the Day
- Moxie
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
- Code Runway
- My first Adsense cheque
- Brahmagiri
- Thought for the Day
- Musical Weekend
- What’s in a name?
November 2006
- foss.in 2006
- Bangalore Book Festival
- Engagement Platform
- Anthargange
- Keep on Running
- Adobe
- Trip to the Dark Side
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
- check_gmail
- Parikrma kids visit Yahoo!
- Running
- Mullainagiri and Bababudangiri
- map(’perl’, ‘india’)
- Motivation
- Ubuntu
- Just Tune In
June 2006
- Keeping track of pages?
- Night Drive
- Linkblog
- Brazilian Portuguese Bytes of Python
- Always on software
- The Search
May 2006
- Thought for the day
- Google has its eyes on India
- Tadiyandamol
- Wah, Kya Theme Hain
- Malaysia Day 4
- Malaysia Day 3
April 2006
- Thought for the Day
- Can you answer this?
- How to use Vim with Firefox
- Marathon postponed
- Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day
- New swaroopch.info theme
- Malaysia Day 2
- Ex-Yahoos start up
- Mark of respect?
- Malaysia Day 1
- Dreamer to Dapper
- Kannada Wikipedia Meet
March 2006
- Car PC, anyone?
- Goodbye is the hardest word to say
- GVim
- Truly Formulasia
- Mukthi
- German Bytes of Python
- Radio City Live
- Have you seen Bangalore like this?
- CL2
- How Products Are Made
- Kumara Parvatha
- Stepping stone
February 2006
- Paper
- Byte of Python is now a wiki
- Rama Devara Betta
- MCC FOSS Day
- ShowMeDo
- 4 things
- Sunrise at Devarayanadurga
- Ain’t nobody
January 2006
- Purani Jeans
- Happy Republic Day
- Lalbagh Flower Show
- Tourism Fair
- Helphones
- Physically here…
- The Dalhousie Trip
December 2005
- Off to Himalayas
- Jump
- ShreeKumar cycling again
- Rajdeep Sardesai and CNN-IBN
- code4bill or code2share?
- Guido at Google
- Dakshina Kannada Police
- Geek Squad
- Text tables
- Madonna’s Oggs
- BollyRadio
- Watching a person learn a skill
- Kaun Banega KDE Hacker
- Hebbe Falls Trek
- Criccer
- Linux Can!
- foss.in day 4
- foss.in day 3
- Django SQLite3 patch
November 2005
- foss.in day 2
- Insertion sort, anyone?
- foss.in day 1
- Sify trouble
- Conversation in the cab
- LinCDs
- PESIT FOSS Day
- It’s a small utility
- It doesn’t pay to be honest
- REBIEX
- More Conversations
- Memories of Linux Bangalore 2003
- Potholed?
- Uncaffeinated
- 13 Virtues
- What a wonderful code
- Sunset
- Concepts
- Internet Business Models
October 2005
- Thrissur again
- Richie blog rich
- Speaking of foss.in…
- Agriculture in India
- Lisp Bazaar
- A Podsafe CD
- Another Sunday, Another Trek
- The Vortal
- Thought for the day
- Gaim for some Google Talk?
- Maths or Science or… ?
- YPodcast
- The Louvre
- Parkinson’s Law
- Will the real IIPM please stand up?
- A R Rahman Concert
- Mano Murthy did it again
- Any webdevs interested to work for Yahoo?
- Logical art
- Yahoo! Bangalore turns 5
September 2005
August 2005
- Sampada
- perl -c life
- Three portals you should know about…
- The Time Thieves
- The shortest interview possible
- Independence Day celebrations at Parikrma
- Happy Independence Day
- Care to share… The Parikrma Way
- Aamir Khan’s blog
- Y! Bangalore Showcase 2005
- Statistics
- My new time management strategy
- Prabhakar Raghavan’s interview
- That Podcast Song
- Python at CodeZoo
July 2005
- Insightful books about Computing
- Y, A and G
- Broadband
- Podcast Awards
- Tiger Dictionary
- The other parking problem
- 360 API
- Where are the Indian IT women bloggers?
- Street Harassment
- Move over, Rails?
- LB2005
- What about software patents in India?
- Obsession session
- Italian Bytes of Python
- Want to know what India is talking about?
- It’s been a year
- Where’s Aathitude?
June 2005
- When geeks rap ….
- The Podcast experience
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Productivity
- UnderestimatedTwiki
- Firefox has become cranky?
- Ode to the Moonwalker
- Book Tagged
- How do you attain self-discipline?
- An OS in the browser
- Ajax experts wanted
- Sleuth
- The Army is here
- The Second coming of Steve Jobs
- Chiliablog and Softies
- Language matters
- State of Fear
May 2005
- Tomorrow’s BangPypers meet will be at Yahoo!
- Anakin becomes Vader
- Popular Video Searches
- Can’t talk in India
- Creativity
- Music Engine. Mojo Engine.
- Python Jobs
- Reason 82 to blog
- GMail is trying too hard
- What is a blog?
- SQL and XML are not that different
- Connect the text
- Do you want to Yahoo! ?
- Everybody’s a salesman
- Messenger Bot
- Faith and Life
April 2005
- A policeman in the office
- Sadists
- G4Swaroop
- Prince of Reviews
- Mysore Moments
- The beat goes on
- Zero Minus Ten
- Moved to TextDrive
- Do you really need the MBA?
- Need a Loan?
- Yahoo! Notepad as Wiki ?
- Wikipedia gets help from Yahoo!
- Mark down my email
- Paper planes
March 2005
- The Apple bites back
- Circle is open now
- Playing with Picasa
- A Heap of Broken Images
- Ponder
- How to kill an open source project…
- Yahoo! Groups gets a facelift
- All about PyCon05
- How to spell my name
- GMail out of beta soon?
- Search for the Commons
- Reading H2G2
- Thout Bytes
- iPod!
- So why not a blog mela
- GCC and the ABI
- Yahoo 360!
- Bazaar-NG
- Ruby-India First Meetup
- Walk the tree
- Overtime
- Tautologies are overrated
- The Job Spool
- Gymmitment
- Indian Music Online
- Yahoo! is a 10 year old kid
- Yahoo! Search Python API Howto
February 2005
- Gopal
- Code Jammin’
- Renaissance 2005
- Journey to Trichur
- Politics, anyone?
- The Art of Blogging
- Coming soon : Learn Python in German!
- WordPress 1.5
- 25 Million Firefox users!
- Learn Python in Chinese!!
- BangPypers meet on Saturday
- Is Open Source the solution?
- Prince of Ayodhya
- Lovaria epidemic
- My Yahee!
- Ask for Answers
- Wikipedia to get Googlified?
- Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox
- A Blogful of Work
- Why I prefer KDE over GNOME
- It finally hit me why Mepis / Debian rocks
- Google Maps
- GPLed Qt on Windows!
- Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines?
- Redesigned my book website
- Bangalore Pythonistas list is high traffic!
- Interface it
- Japan now blogs on Yahoo!
- AOP leads you to a good job?
- Aspect Oriented Programming and TreeCC
- Trek at Thusharagiri
January 2005
- Blogging from Calicut!
- Talk at FLOSS Meet tomorrow
- Code word Legal
- Soul and Role of Yahoo and Google
- PyCon
- The Tune of the BangPypers
- Deliciously popular!
- Snake charmer
- Stories by Sudha Murty
- First Bangalore Python meetup
- My sister draws in GIMP
- Python meetup in Bangalore tomorrow
- Choose Python
- Evolution on Windows : The Cross Platform Holy Grail
- The Road to Gandolfo
- Why is the computer against me ?
- Will Yahoo buy Six Apart ?
- Premshree joins Yahoo!
- Alex Speech
- Snakes and stones
- Inspiration
- The age of Folksonomy
- Byte parts
- The Confluence Project
- SLYNUX
- Future of Programming is Functional Programming ?
- Byte of Python list is formally open
- Byte of Python revived
- Imagine a waiter’s life
- Bloglines rules!
- The Headless Mac is here
- Python workshop at NIT Calicut
- The IndiBloggies
- Guido on static typing in Python
- HTML Export feature for WordPress
- A Rich Life
- LinkBlog
- Comment spam sucks
- Happy New Year 2005
December 2004
- Tsunami Relief Efforts
- Kong is King
- Cycling vs biking
- Knoppix Rules
- Category Specific Feeds
- About The Dreamer
- Joke Falls
- Tsunami hits South and South East Asia
- Biking to Green Valley
- I want to go gadling too
- More Wikipedia
- Reelity
- Great movie after a great day
- Wikipedia rocks
- Dynamic Java
- Galaxy of neck and heads
- Yahoo! Bangalore looking for good hackers
- Distro considerations
- 2004 Weblog Awards
- Now Reading: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
- LB2004 Day 3
- LB2004 Day 2
- Talking Python
- LB2004 Day 1
- Parties should be like this….
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
- LINDEC 2004
- 22nd over
- Design process of Thunderbird Logo
- Yahoo and Creative Commons
- Internet Radio
- Recursive searching
- Gloomy Weather
- Python - Metaclasses, Decorators and other funky stuff
- Website reloaded!
July 2004
- IronPython is open source!!
- Apache on-demand!
- The Future of PC ?
- Mullainagiri photos
- My book in a Microsoft magazine!
June 2004
- The API War
- Open source coming of age
- I got GMail!
- Yahoo! Mail is 100 MB!
- High on Kaffeine!
- Eclipse without JVM
- Discussion boards
- Blog review bytes
- Byte on CD!
- Idea 2 Language
- Waving to Venus
- French Bytes
- Sunday == Funday!
- Latest Bytes
- Tech Tips
- Open Source Java??
- Contemplation
- C that Python!
- VTU == V Torture U
- Mono Beta 2 released!
May 2004
- DotGNU
- What a blast!
- Shocker duplicate
- Which scripting language is right for you?
- College life…
- Pretty Docbook Form?
- Fedora Core 2 arrives!
- Network security is cool
- What a robot!
- Why Sonia Gandhi as PM of India is a national disaster
- All about Longhorn
- The Prometheus Deception
- Review Bytes
- Longhorn Details!
- I want GMail!
- Mono Beta 1 out!
- The Adventure of Shivanasamudram!
April 2004
- Why MySQL?
- Around the world in a week ?!
- Time-out
- Innovations in C#
- First Time Vote!
- Google - the OS !
- More translated bytes
- Midnight Escapade!
- Microsoft releases open source code!
- Mobile friends
- The Original and the Next-generation Clone: Java and C#
- The Matlock Paper at home
- The sounds of Longhorn
- Why is Python not as popular as it should be?
March 2004
- More bytes of Python!
- Yahooooo!
- 3D Desktop!
- Simputer
- Team India Shining
- IronPython again
- Managing The Future Of Open Source Software
- Coffee-drinking snakes: Java and Python
- Back at the GATE
- Editing Away
- More Mono Talk
- Java Generics
- Global Village
- Thanks for coming!
- Language Interoperability Problems!
- Halloween X
- Mono talk
- Bourne Again
- Sys-Con
February 2004
- Calvin and Hobbes
- Nemerle
- The Art of Xen
- The Surfin’ Penguin
- Let Java Go!
- Bryan at the gate!
- The Samurai Identity
- Java 1.5 beta
- KDE 3.2 is here!
- Red Park
- Linux 2.6 - The Details
- IronPython and Jython