Programming

As the title suggests, I was looking for a way to send HTML mails in python using Amazon SES but did not find anything (or maybe my search skills are bad). So, once I found the solution, I thought I might share it with everyone. The basic idea is that contents of the mail (raw-message) must be a JSON dictionary with “Data” as main key whose value is a key value pair containing entries with keys like “From”, “To” etc. Sample code can be seen below.

This blog post is a HOWTO guide for using github while collaborating during hackathons. It does not cover git in detail.

This blog post contains a collection of small tips for engineers migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X for software development. Note: In another post, I wrote about why there is a dearth of a good GNU/Linux laptop.

Some experience with adb and fastboot preferred (they are part of android SDK)

This blog post is for those who understand how file permissions work but are looking for an explanation on how file permissions behave when they are applied to directories.

While most people draw diagrams in Xfig (or GIMP) and include them in LaTeX, they can be drawn directly in LaTeX (using tikz package). A major advantage of doing that is animation (\pause) is possible when using these diagrams in presentations(based on beamer) Following is an example demonstrating that (code released under BSD license)

So, you believe there are bugs in your C/C++ code or you have encountered SEGFAULT while executing your code. What will you do? write a lot of printf statements at various places in your code under suspicion OR use gdb (GNU code debugger) This article is about Approach 2

This is meant to be a small guide (though not exhaustive) for students beginning to program on Linux system. Particularly for those, who have done extensive C/C++ programming in Windows, using the Borland/Turbo interface or the Visual C++ interface, and are greatly intimidated by the Linux platform.

A small list of GCC Hacks g++ -o helloworld helloworld.cc produces helloworld binary from helloworld.cc C++ file. use -Wall switch turns on all warnings(potential errors) in the code (like unused variables) g++ -E helloworld.cc generates output code after the pre-processing stage.