Anil Gulecha's Musings

Let Me Know

My friend Nitin has a knack for entrepreneurial stuff.

One of his expliots had been the Let Me know website at letmeknow.wordpress.com which was a platform used to notify students from around the country about opportunities that come up. The world before let me know meant various events, shows, scholarships, contests, etc needed to be printed on posters and pasted on school notice boards. Let Me Know changed that and turned into a one stop shop for all such information.

I can vouch for this because I heard of BITS, Goa tech fest this way, and built a robot which won accolades . So there.. add Let Me Know to your RSS feed, or subscribe to their notifications by entering your mail at the website (its better than regularly checking the site).

PS: The robot reminds me, I still have the Spots, the motor, the ICs, solder and the metal casing. I should plan on some hardware hacking one of these weekends..

Recently I had been hunting around the web for a very lightweight, simple to use, flat file using, php based wiki. And I managed to find one. It’s called Pawfaliki

Pawfaliki

This wiki package is under 50 kb in size, has an easy to use wiki syntax, is CSS based, and has a very cool dark look. It matched my needs almost perfectly.

Test it out at www.pawfal.org

Fancy URLs

One minor nit I had was how the URL looked.. for example the About page would look like

http://www.pawfal.org/index.php?page=About

rather than a nice wiki like

http://www.pawfal.org/About

So like any good FOSS denizen, I went ahead and implemented small changes for this. Get the modified sources: pawfaliki052-modified.tar.gz

If you’d like to see the changes, get the diff for the original package at this bug I raised. (Note, I’ve renamed pawfaliki.php to index.php, and added a .htaccess file). The changes would go in if theres another release (the last one was a while back).

So there. Give this very small wiki package a try.

So, I’ve finally picked up Python (been meaning to do this for quite some time), and find it to be beautifully intuitive. The ternary operator that goes

result = x if y else z

is an example of this intuitiveness.

Expect many more Pythonic posts in the future. For now, I’m considering the problems from Project Euler