If you've wanted to generate PDF reports in python, you don't have choices. Most of the so called alternatives are also built on top of 'reportlab'.

I am not comfortable with reportlab (this is a post in itself) but because there's no viable alternative, I have stuck on. Reportlab has …

Ubuntu can cure quite a few headaches and illnesses! Taken from Shabda's medicine basket.

Managers will always be managers! Despite having the coolest project management tool (PMT), (D)VCS and what not, they generally request you to send a daily status. You are surprised by this request, especially when an auto generated email is sent for 'every' commit you make, items struck off the …

JQuery UI is a useful project that provides theme-able widgets built on top of the JQuery project. It has an active community and lots of community contributed widgets that do a lot of interesting and sometimes out of the world stuff!

For a mini-project, I had to work on replicating …

Just bought a Samsung i7500 Galaxy Phone. It's Android powered.

A few pics below...

I know it's fairly easy to reload the recaptcha and the second word is not the 'challenge' word and will get accepted no matter what I enter. But this is the heights of "Are you a human or a bot?".

The Ctrl key on the Samsung R517 laptop is placed awkwardly for comfortable use with Emacs. Off late due to the strain of hitting the Ctrl key often, I started to feel a mild tingling on my pinky. I was anxious if this was the first stage of the infamous …

One of those things that makes me go beyond yelling WTF!

Ever since model validation hit the django trunk, I had been having thoughts of reviving my Google Summer of Code 2007 project. So nearly a couple of weeks back, I started resurrecting django-check-constraints. Today, I released the code into wild here.

The feature of the project is that it not …

Cat O' Nine Tales was my first Jeffrey Archer book. I picked it up with great hesitation because I hadn't read any of his previous books and a friend warned me that his books required lot of patience to finish.Luckily, Cat O' Nine Tales was Jeffrey Archer's fifth instalment …