Stuff I run across.
A complete training curriculum. Reflects Claude Code as of mid-2026. Claude Code ships changes weekly — when in doubt, ask it about itself ( can you do X? ) and it will fetch its own current docs. Part 0 — The philosophy (why it s built this way) Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives where ... Read more
I wrote JavaDBF library back in 2003 as no Free/Open Source library was available to read/write XBase file formats in Java. That period was the fag end of XBase s glory days. Many legacy data were available in that format which need to be fetched/migrated/exported to RDBMS-based system or to spreadsheet formats. Since its first version, ... Read more
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds Cloud: A Jargon in the Market with a Redefined Meaning It has been one of the most misunderstood, misused technology terms in the past few years by customers, ... Read more
As the Internet infrastructure evolved over recent years, services running on it become more visible and tangible to the world. Internet as an infrastructure is less talked about these days. Rather, services running on them are counted with more reverence. We are thinking about building further upon those services and forget the Internet as the ... Read more
India gets new currency symbol. Whole of India is excited about it and so am I. Now waiting for type face designers to include the symbol in my favorite fonts. Government of India approved a currency symbol design contest last year. And the year-long competition came to an end and the winner is an IIT ian. ... Read more
Ever since I saw a trainer aircraft flying at Sankhumukham during my childhood I fancied myself flying aircrafts; not as a career but as a hobby. I never got a chance to make an attempt due to lack of opportunity. The main problem was the commitment one needs to take to put the hands on. ... Read more
Many of us use telnet as a network debugging tool quite often. Just with its hostname and port options we find it very useful. But, I m sure that many would recall following situations where we find the telnet client inadequate: To test a UDP service Want to send a pre-prepared set of request/responses to a ... Read more
Kochi is a city of billboards. You can see them as soon as you enter the city from either side. Majority of those billboards are rented out by real estate biz (both big and small). The second position (way below the first one) is taken by jewellers. The third is cell phone brands and the ... Read more
I don t remember who exactly suggested Valparai as the anniversary ride destination of Silver Bullets for this year. The choice was not bad as it was a hill station (most of us like to ride up to a hill, then ride down and live the next one week with post-ride hangover). And that even makes ... Read more
Inspired from a Slashdot post, I thought of preparing a list of best reference web sites for each programming languages that we use at Linuxense. Send in if your suggestions. C http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/ C++ http://www.research.att.com/~bs/C++.html Java http://java.sun.com Javascript http://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript Lua http://www.lua.org/ Pascal…