Monthly Archives: November 2007

Language People – Interesting picture 3

I like the representation for Logo, Machine Language, Prolog and Ada. Wonder what “N.W” is… (the Modula-2 guy is holding it). I wish python was featured too but the picture says “’85″. Python did not even exist then! original from here

Building a low-cost bad-ass “server” machine 7

I have been playing around with Wikipedia data and tried doing some byte pushing on my Dreamhost web space. Since this is shared web space, the processing power and memory available are limited. I was able to create database tables in mysql by parsing the wiki xml dump and some extra processing as well to [...]

Generating call graphs for understanding and refactoring python code 13

I have always been a fan of visualizations as I believe firmly that it is easier to crunch visual information than anything else. Visualizations are especially helpful for finding out patterns in data that are not expected and for patterns that are difficult to express textually in a concise manner. The beast A couple of [...]

Wikipedia Category Graph Generator 4

I was in the process of trying to understand the classification schemes available in Wikipedia (categories, lists and navigation maps) when I came across this nifty tool. It is very useful to understand the inter-relationships between Wikipedia categories. You can check it out here: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~dapete/catgraph/

m.vtap.com – vTap for any device with a browser 1

Veveo released a mobile web browser friendly version of the vTap service a couple of days back. The cool thing about this is that it will work on any device with support for a basic browser and realplayer (count most mobile phones in). Since it is meant to enable vTap at the lowest common denominator [...]