I read this book "Learn Python the Hard Way" some time ago. Actually the book was very basic as it was intended for people new to programming so it's not my type of book. What I liked was at the end of the book, there was an epilogue called "Advice From An Old Programmer...

First connect to gmail's pop server: openssl s_client -connect pop.gmail.com:995 This opens up a SSL connection with Gmail. For webmails using normal http, telnet is enough. It displays a big certificate and other stuffs. The last line of my response was +OK...

After reading this article, you'll be able to find the installation location of apache have no trouble finding paths where logs, configuration files and modules are stored create a sample module and test it It is assumed that you have Apache Http Server already installed...

If you have used so many softwares, you might have come across some that shows some Tips dialog with a checkbox that says "Show tip on startup." If you get annoyed, you uncheck it. It won't appear next time. Guess how it is programmed. There must be some kind of a properties...

I still haven't started studying Python properly but doing fun tasks with it and learning on the way. I have made a Web Crawler that when given a url crawls through the child links recursively in a depth first order. Web Crawler Code:     import urllib,string,re...

This is a small program. I was tasked with retrieving a small set of data from a webpage by screenscraping using python. http://money.livemint.com/IID64/F132540/Financial/Ratios/Company.aspx This is the data I should retrieve. I never learnt Python properly...

screen command: screen is a very powerful and awesome command in unix/linux. It is used to create multiple "screens" within a single shell. It is NOT the same as having multiple shells. Before knowing screen command, if I had a long running program ( a GUI program or...

My manager gave me a simple(tough for me) assignment to learn.. Problem: Write a command line app using your favourite language that accepts 2 facebook ids and return a list of common friends between the 2 ids. I couldn't! I could make a program that list my friends...

Hi y'all, I hadn't been updating on NU for a long time after getting job. Though I am sincerely committed to my employers, I will still be responsible to my previous projects that helped me improve in life. I will use my weekends on them. Shashaank (Neembuu Admin) has...