Project management

Considering the number of personal projects that I am working on, I decided to give a try for some good project management software. And this was the criteria I was looking for Source code integration with Git Projects > Tasks > Bugs Burn down charts and time tracking Supports at least two users Email notifications… Read More »

NLP with Python – First steps

Today is one of the happiest days of my life because, for the first time, I saw the real power of python and the Natural Language Took kit library. I had downloaded the text version of bible yesterday and using that as input and the following lines of code ( source code is after the… Read More »

Swaroop’s visit to Bangalore

Swaroop came home yesterday from Hyderabad. He reached at 1:00 PM. We ordered food from swiggy and then talked for a long time. In the evening, we went to 1 MG mall as well as Big Bazaar. Once he came back, Swaroop taught me how to use the Tez and BHIM app, along with that,… Read More »

When Indians go abroad

When Indians got to US and attend calls from there or when they come back to India, they won’t stop acting like an America. A few obvious changes, you will notice are Change in name : Krishna becomes Krish and so on. GopalNath becomes GN ( Gn ?? really ?) Talk in an accent, which… Read More »

Golden gems ( books ) on Software Engineering

Found this on ./ I teach CS 428 (“Software Engineering”) at BYU. The three texts my students read are: — The Mythical Man-Month, Fred Brooks (originally published in 1975, anniversary edition in 1995) — Peopleware by DeMarco and Lister (first published in 1987, currently in its 3rd edition) — Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass (published in… Read More »

Rich vs Poor – People’s perception

Nobody questions the poor for not working hard. Nobody asks the poor, why are you like this?  But the rich have to be hardworking and also share their wealth with other people. If they don’t they are creating big crime. Social responsibility part applies to the rich. If a poor guy, decides to skip work and have a… Read More »

Met 2 malayalis today

While I was moving towards the Trinity circle bus stop, to catch cab, I came across an an individual who should be around 40, and he was asking me directions for Trinity complex. As it is my regular protocol, I asked the specific name of the building he was looking for. He told me, he… Read More »

Car 2 – More inspiration and more animation

Today I watched youtube video of David Armsby. The way he had designed the scenes ( by actually going to those places and clicking pics and using them as references for drawing ) storyboarding and his amazing drawing book ! Everything looked so amazing. I was so inspired seeing all that. As soon as I… Read More »

Venturing into digital art

As part of learning how to use digital tools to create art, I created my first digital art using Adobe Illustrator, a few minutes back. I was very happy with the results. Although I have more stuff to learn and get better understanding of lighting Also enclosing two animations that I created a few days… Read More »