Calculate Root of Any Whole Number in Java
The following Java program can find any root of a whole number. The logic is simple. Start by guessing some number and check if that is the correct value. If that overshoots then subtract some from the guess number else add to it. We added or subtracted some fixed constant. If that constant is too [...]
Google really finally allows India to sell Android apps
There were reports a month back I suppose when Google mistakenly added India to the list of approved countries. Later that they removed India from the list, apologizing for the mistake. Now finally all India Android devs can rejoice. India is finally in the list. I just enrolled today. Check the below official link to confirm. Supported locations [...]
Django-Select2 version 3.1.1 released
Just released Django-Select2‘s version 3.1.1. The key changes are:- Updated Select2 Javascript library to versino 3.2. This new version fixes a lot of bugs, along with providing a high resolution icon image, to be used in Retina displays. In my last release (version 3.0.2) I introduced some new template tags but unfortunately I did not [...]
Hack sbicapsec.com to run on Firefox
www.sbicapsec.com is State Bank of India’s online share trading portal. This is a good portal but their site’s code quality is amazingly of low quality, dare I say, crappy. SBI being a public sector government institute, we can rest assured that the code quality or bugs in it would not get fixed soon, if ever. [...]
SplitBill: IOU manager for and by Geeks
There are hundreds of IOU softwares on the net. What makes SplitBill different is that it has no UI. Yes, you read that right – No UI. Now the more surprising part. It is a breeze to use and setup. In fact all you need is a sever with Python and MySql installed to host [...]
The Emperor’s Old Clothes
This is a republication from ACM’s archive of Prof. C. A. R. Hoare‘s lecture at 1980 ACM Turning Award. Prof. Hoare is popularly known for inventing QuickSort. The original piece can be found as PDF here. The primary reason for republishing this is the source PDF’s fonts. The PDF fonts are too horrible to read. [...]
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