Kiran

• Website: brainturk.com

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• Commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?
  Here is some data[1] from perl.com sometime back. I came back to India from the US last year and am working on my own startup and we are a perl shop in bangalore, we are a five member team and...
• Commented on Head Gestures in browser based game
  You can go ahead and use it for your demo. Yes that is correct this demo uses only getUserMedia part...
• Posted Head Gestures in browser based game to Kiran

  Recently I stumbled upon WebRTC. I started looking into this and found some useful libraries on github .

  I have been creating some ="http://brai…

• Commented on Comparing YUI - Dojo - Ext JS - jQuery
  Hi Ron, That's a nice comparison and gives a good overview . I have started using backbone.js with underscore.js, which I am beginning to like a lot....
• Commented on So apparently this is creepy
  Hi Steven, Although I have lived in the US for six years I have the same thoughts as you have and I do not understand this reaction (this data is already available and anyone can get this even without programming...
• Posted Brainturk - Cognitive Games to Kiran

  Brainturk.com is yet another perl powered app that I have been working on , These games are taken from various research papers and articles published. Try it out and let me know if you have any comments/suggestions
  I decided to go with

• Posted make test errors failed to map segment from shared object to Kiran

  I had to install a version of Storable 2.30 for a client on their server and was getting the following error

  failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted
  Can't load '/tmp/del/Storable-2.30/blib/arch/auto/Storable/Storable.so' for module Storable: /tmp/del/Storab…

• Posted gdb basics to Kiran

  Getting started with gdb , some notes on this

  objdump (otool on osx) is a program to examine a binary.
  To examine perl run the command

  objdump -D /usr/bin/perl |grep -A40 main.:

  Interesting to see the function call
  objdump -D /usr/bin/perl |grep -A400 main.: |gr…

• Commented on Allowing anonymous comments
  Thanks , I was not aware of the enable anonymous comment option, I found that now...
• Posted Allowing anonymous comments to Kiran

  Gabor has a post here where he points out that the level of interaction is lower than the other blogs, he mentions blogs.perl.org and chromatic's blog as an example.
  On more than one occ…

• Commented on Binary search versus hash lookup
  I have also started reading skiena's Algorithm design (I highly recommend the online lectures just google for url). I just read the chapter on Dictionary , I'm still trying to grasp so I might be wrong but here goes ....
• Posted YAPC - Lightning workshop to Kiran

  After attending YAPC::NA at asheville I got an email for the YAPC feedback survey. I filled it yesterday and later thought of something that could be tried but am not sure if it's a good idea so here is a brain dump :-).

  The idea is to combine social as well as technology aspect together…

• Posted Cognitive tasks and Dual N Back to Kiran

  A few days back I stumbled on this blog post about increasing your intelligence and the Dual N…

• Posted Phenona Perl platform on the cloud to Kiran

  Phenona is acquired by Active state . I have not seen…

• Posted python2.6 for dotcloud to Kiran

  Dotcloud now supports perl. Dotcloud command-line interface requires python 2.6. Here are the steps I used to install python2.6 on mac 10.5.8

  wget http://python.org…

• Commented on JavaScript: The Good Parts
  One of the examples is the javascript == does not work correctly in all the cases ''=='0' //false 0==''//true the suggestion is to use === other example is how the javascript "this" is sometimes bound to the global object based...
• Posted Useful Links to Kiran

  Here are some useful resources.
  Khan Academy If you have or know any children who are in school, this is an awesome resource, Sal is an excellent and talented teacher . The video's are ten minutes in length and of very good quality.

• Commented on Perl vs JavaScript
  Two undefs , use === !== operators as per this (Page 109)...
• Commented on Introduction to Perl at BarCamp Kerala 8, India
  There were some folks interested in organizing a perl conference in the Bangalore.pm Thread . As far as I know there are a lot of Perl programmers in India but most of them use perl to get their jobs done...
• Commented on Perl on Android
  I am not aware of any mailing list , This wiki has some information ASE...
• Posted Perl on Android to Kiran

  I got a new Nexus One phone .
  Here is the hello_world.pl that is installed in the /sdcard/ase/scripts

  $ cat hello_world.pl
  use Android;
  my $a = Android->new();
  …

Comment Threads

• Buster Highmann commented on Comparing YUI - Dojo - Ext JS - jQuery

  Ya Ron, ExtJS is real tough.

  Hey look, a grid with the following features, in 50 lines:

  sortable (and reverse),
  editable,
  groupable,
  draggable columns,
  hideable columns,
  resizable columns

  and it works in IE6+ and FF, Chrome, Safari, and probably even Lynx.

  This took me 29 seconds to create.

  http://jsfiddle.net/el_chief/hLr96/1/

  Maybe try a bit harder before you're so dismissive? JQuery doesn't even have its own grid. You get to learn YET ANOTHER API.

• Ron Savage commented on Comparing YUI - Dojo - Ext JS - jQuery

  Hi Buster

  Welllll, there's a limit on how many APIs I want to learn.

  And, I think you start off as an expert (to some degree) in Ext JS. It makes no sense to compare your productivity with what an absolute beginner at Ext JS (i.e. me) has to struggle with.

  The aim of the comparisons, no matter how far short I fell, was to present these libs from the point of view of a noobie.

  But, as I said, YMMV.

  Cheers
  Ron
  

• Ether commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  I wonder if anyone is interested in applying for a TPF grant to attend some big conferences in India and evangelize for Perl? It would be great if we could increase the Indian representation (even get a speaker or two?) at the next YAPC::Asia.

• Steven Haryanto commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  If someone is considering India, he/she might as well consider China, Philippines, and Indonesia (or Malaysia and Thailand to a lesser extent).

  As someone who stays in Indonesia, I can say that there is a great deal of energy and interest for open source here, but Perl's presence is almost non-existent. There's a lot of opportunity.

• superpulse.x commented on How to involve more Indians in the Perl community?

  I mostly agree with @kiran on the situation with Perl in India. I feel that its important to find ways for developers in India to be more social and get them to contribute