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A generic binary search implementation in C – thoughts
Wish you a very happy new year! This is an attempt to discuss a problem I’ve come across. Some common things that I would like to suggest people going for computer science interviews are - listen to...
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Extracting full path while uploading a file to server in Flex
In my free prototyping time I decided writing a simple uploader in AIR (what else?). I could create a working application in minutes using FileReference class and its method browse() (for opening a...
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Desktop Twitter – twitter out of the browser
Desktop Twitter is an Adobe AIR desktop application written in Flex (Actionscript) which I wrote up few days back. It is an attempt to bring the twitter experience out of the browser. Current version...
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Flex: Storing custom user strings in controls
Few days back while I was programming on Flex this cool problem came through. Problem was that I created buttons dynamically in the code based on some parameters passed to the function. These...
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Starting with Haskell
Few days back I started learning Haskell, a purely functional programming language. A functional programming language has a different paradigm altogether from the so called imperative languages (C,...
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Set comprehensions in Haskell
Remember “Set comprehensions” in Mathematics? Being of mathematical nature Haskell provides the same kind of programming touch feel. It has a notion of list comprehensions i.e. you define a set of...
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Quick Sort – Poster boy for Haskell’s Elegance
Finally I reached to write Quick Sort code in Haskell. This code generally requires ~ 10-12 LOC in imperative languages (I implemented last in C & Perl). In Haskell (and not surprisingly) it is...
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Tower of Hanoi in Haskell
Before moving into Types in Haskell which is one big chapter in this book I am following I thought of having some more familiarization with the language. How about solving Tower of Hanoi problem...
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Rubular
Writing correct Regular Expressions have always been a tough game for me. Just came across this nice site called Rubular where you can make and test your regular expressions (and may be with practice...
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Python Error “TypeError ‘float’ object not callable”
If you see this error in python: TypeError ‘float’ object not callable It seems that you are trying to call a method or function and a property or variable with the same name is available in the...
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Understanding unicode in python and writing text in devanagri script
This Unicode HOWTO by Python Software Foundation is a short but informative read about Unicode handling in python. Understanding the brief history of characters standardization from ASCII to Unicode is...
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Beware of Collection.retainAll in Java!
Yesterday I got a nasty bug! Basically, I observed that a map – which was populated with about 20 values (no significance of particular number here) on first access (in a static manner) – was missing...
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