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Slides for talk given @ SciPy.in 2016 conference at IIT Bombay https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qFaJJmeVrNx_40TfLvyWXcc9tskYll-qmR...

At my $dayjob , i work with python, but mostly python 2.7. As you might be aware, python 3 has been out in the wild since a very long time,...

I am sure many of us developers run into unresponsive machines while doing our usual stuff (developing/debugging) due to a rogue or buggy p...

Last week, i completed two full years working for Enthought . It has been a great time working with some of the best minds and wonderful pe...

Recently while working with ipython qtconsole , i realized that it is easy to freeze the qtconsole or any app embedding the it by simply do...

This post is inspired by a chapter i read from a book titled "DROP", which I got from the Chinmay Mission's Temple near Powai...

Superman returns – but who’s looking after his water? Is it a plane? No, it’s Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics. ...

Note to myself: Quoted from http://bethesignal.org/blog/2011/03/18/moving-needle-gnome-leadership/ Contributors are your participants....

At long last, i've got a new mobile, after years of using the venerable good old fellow Nokia 1100 My old phone: Nokia N8 (circa 2005...

Stay Healthy By Taking Breaks : " Most of us lead sedentary lifestyles these days -- most of our time is spent in front of computers. T...

Firefox 4 beta 9 is looking good, apart from no hw acceleration on linux. The minizable menu-bar is a very cool feature. Now all the UI is ...

Mathematics, History and worms eating manuscripts… : " This is a sad story of forgetten history, indifference towards ancient knowledge...

 The linux kernel is a huge behemoth [pankaj@pankajlaptop pysph-perf]$ su - Password: [root@pankajlaptop ~]# yum --enablerepo fedora-de...

This post is gonna be about python editors (IDEs if you may call, not but quite so) If you are looking for IDEs, check out pydev and SPE, ...

Some time back i posted how to setup a local forwarding proxy in linux so that u do not need to set your proxy password in each and every p...

A few days back i showed how to get coverage of cython functions using Ned Batchelder's coverage.py In that post i had posted a patch ...

For all the coders out there, if you have not been writing unit tests for your code then god bless you, but if you do write tests here'...

Over this weekend, i was searching for something to do (not that i dont have tasks piled up), and i remembered there was no easy way to edit...

In this post i'm going to list some of the pitfalls which can happen when you are trying to optimize your code and test the timings of s...