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Rakudo Star Jan 2012 Released

Pradeep Pant — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:25:49 +0000

Rakudo Perl, a Perl 6 compiler for the Parrot virtual machine is released .
The tarball for the January 2012 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.

See this link for official announcement.

Filed under: Perl, Programming, Server side (Perl 5, Perl 6) Tagged: linkedin, perl6, Rakudo

Philosophy and Software Design patterns

Pradeep Pant — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:37:39 +0000

A very good site to understand the Philosophical connection to Object Oriented Design methodology.

http://www.philosoftware.com/home

Enjoy!

Filed under: Programming Tagged: design methodology, design-pattern, linkedin, object oriented

Map Reduce using Perl

Pradeep Pant — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:02:35 +0000

Filed under: Perl, Programming, Server side (Perl 5, Perl 6) Tagged: grep, hadoop, linkedin, Perl

The Perls of 2011

Pradeep Pant — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:55:04 +0000

Like year 2010, Breno G. de Oliveira [garu] has again written a wonderful blog “The Perls of 2011″. See the link for full read.

I like to congratulate garu for wonderful job. Looking forward for such analysis in coming years.

Happy New Year to all there in Perl community. Long Live Perl.

Enjoy!

Filed under: Programming, Server side (Perl 5, Perl 6) Tagged: Perl

My Project 365 : A picture a day starts today

Pradeep Pant — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:13:37 +0000

I have started taking one photo a day for a year (project 365). Checkout my photos at this link.

Keep visiting

Thank you!

Filed under: Photography Tagged: linkedin, photography, project365

Happy New Year 2012

Pradeep Pant — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:30:21 +0000

Wishing you a Very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2012

Image is Taken By Photos8.com

Filed under: General Interests Tagged: general, linkedin, wishes

List.js: Cross browser native JavaScript

Pradeep Pant — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:24:41 +0000

List.js A 7 KB cross-browser native JavaScript that makes your plain HTML lists super flexible, searchable, sortable and filterable.

This library is still in beta but worth to check.

For more you can check the README of the project on Github.

Good luck.

Filed under: Client Side (HTML/XHTML, Javascript, XML, Jquery, Ajax, JSON), Web development Tagged: html, javascipt, linkedin

Stanford DB class

Pradeep Pant — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 16:31:17 +0000

Along with my AI class course, I have also started DB class (Oct-Dec session) from Standford online courses series. Actually, learning DB was long due and this seems to be perfect opportunity. In my professional life I write SQL queries and sometime modify the database schema but that is all job requirement, going through full course content again (after my degree) is really an opportunity and I don’t want to miss it. Course instructor for this class is Jennifer Widom and I am really liking her teaching style so I am bit excited. Well, I have almost completed first part and some of the points covered in this part are:

DBMS features
Key concepts like Data model, schema, DDL, DML
Key people like Database designer, Administrator, developer
Relational model XML data – DTD, XSD — This covered really well along with XML validation
Relational algebra
Intro to SQL

Have to finish some assignment by this week end. It’s going to be packed weekend with lot of assignments.

Will come back with more..

Thanks

Filed under: DB-Class, Standford Classes Tagged: db-class, linkedin, stanford

AI Class Unit 2 Problem Solving

Pradeep Pant — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:04:56 +0000

I have completed the AI-Class Unit 2 problem solving. It has 38 sub-sections so will take some hours to finish. Some of the algorithms covered are:

Tree search
Graph search
Breath first search
Uniform cost search
A* search

and topics on state spaces

Though my quiz score are not so good.. may be this was the first assignment but the quiz score is not counting on my final score so that’s good news. Now I am concentrating on Homework 1 which will be closed in some hours.

There are some very good notes on this link on Unit-1 and some part of Unit-2. Keep on visiting this site, I believe it is getting updated regularly. Another site which I am liking is AI-Class Q&A community. Check it out and ask any question regarding course topics, assignments etc.

Good luck!

See u later with more updates.

Filed under: AI-Class, Standford Classes Tagged: ai-class, linkedin, standford

Online AI course at Standford

Pradeep Pant — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:33:19 +0000

If you want a break from your routine work (Writing code, testing etc) then like me you can also attend online courses form Stanford university. I am starting my AI, DB and MI class videos today.

If you have not signed up for the free classes from Stanford, I believe today (10th Oct 2011) is your last day.

I signed up for all three, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Intro to Databases.

All courses will have tests. I have just completed Unit-1 of AI course. You can also check the youtube channel.

Best of luck.

See u online.

Filed under: Programming Tagged: AI, linkedin, stanford