Older blog entries for shalabh (starting at number 29)

My homepage got another makeover.

I don't think I'll do a new look for my homepage since I cleaned up all the obsolete stuff.

= hacking =

Did some work on pycards this week. Maybe I'll open a sourceforge project soon, but first I should get a front end for the multiplayer playing cards engine working. The 'fun' stuff for the first game is done, the trivial but required parts are holding back the release (as usual).

Python 2.2 is weird:

>>> class C(object): pass
>>> c = C('Whos', 'eating', 'my', 'params?')
>>> c
<__main__.C object at 0x009166E8>
>>>

Decided it was time to change the look of my homepage, it's been looking the same too long and I got sick of it. Working on a new look now...

Update after two months!

I've moved to LA, new job :), new place, new license plates, etc... getting used to the LA freeways (whew!). Have to start exploring this place.

Big surprise for me today. The company I work for didn't get the 2nd round funding :(. So I'm looking for a job again.

My updated resume will soon be on my homepage. Meanwhile if you are looking for a sharp developer <modesty- off> who can do pretty much anything possible with C++ and Python, look no further :) </modesty-off> Keywords: C++, Python, OO, Java, app servers, developing frameworks, dbms, ldap, xpcom, mozilla, zope...

Today is my 6th day in the US! Landed in Denver this Monday, though 3 hours later than expected. Nice place! Am now looking for a place to stay - either an apartment, or a place that needs a roommate or something. Let's see...

Long time no updates! Well here's what has happened.

I've left my job and moved back to where my home is - New Delhi.

Also, I have a US visa and a new job in Colorado! Will be flying there soon... :-)

Yesterday was Holi! We (there were ten of us) went to the Boat Club here. The dance floor was in the open with bamboo shoots hoisted above the area. Water drizzling through the holes made in the shoots created (coloured) rain all over. Rain dance is fun! Of course there was plenty of food and drink too :-)

Here is the story behind the festival.

The colour hasn't come off my nails yet - they're deep pink.

My post at the XPCOM newsgroup has grown quite a thread! Cool, those ideas might actually get somewhere :-)

I cleaned up and added comments to an macro extension I had created for MoinMoin (a wiki system in python), and I've put it up at the MacroMarket for MoinMoin.

My macro (called EventsList) generates a list of events for a given date. You can put the list of all events in plain text in a wiki page and it will parse and extract the event info.

Leads me to think... just simple text parsing macros used with MoinMoin could be used to build some pretty decent yet simple to use web based collaboration systems.