Wish you a very happy and prosperous new year!

I was at my friend’s place yesterday for new year celebrations and we needed a random number generator to play bingo. Instead of writing numbers on chits and picking them up, I hacked together a random number generator using Javascript in about 15 minutes, which looked like this:

I used a simple hash to see that numbers did not repeat and It actually worked pretty well.  I was delighted at Javascript’s utility at non geek parties!

Here is the code:

	




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And here is a demo

Enjoy 2009!

I have started to move the site’s backend to a new version and god! it is as hard as moving out of a house you have stayed in for years. I was hopeful that this process will end smoothly in just one shot, but it looks like all the hacks I have put in is not sufficient.

So, you will be finding glitches here and there, please bear with me. Also, you will realize that some pages have vanished and some look ugly. It is all part of the painful plastic surgery which the backend is going thru.

Please feel free to report any bugs, broken links, horrible spellings etc to devadutta@devadutta.net.

I have mirrored my old site here, in case you want something there.

Keeping track of all movies I watch has been something that I wanted to do for a long time now.
Finally, I got enough time to get a widget up and running for my blog which does exactly this. I call it quot;Movie Goerquot;.

The back end of this app took a while to complete because of all the ajax I put in

I made some significant changes to the Gallery back-end and I am loving the performance boost!
Checkout the Gallery section for the latest version.

Changes in this version

• Version 0.4
• Gallery album display order changed from quot;Arbitraryquot; to quot;Album creation timequot;
• Anti-aliasing support
• Bandwidth requirements reduced significantly because of new JIT image delivery technique.

There is a long way to go to reach v1.00 when I will make the code public. Until then, please send in any feedback to devadutta@devadutta.net

I happened to get hold of a video of me conducting the KSS Rajyotsava Quiz 2007. Take a look!

Srikanth and I have started a new blog called BoiledBeans. We post one technical quiz question there everyday and post answers the next day. In this interval, we let people post answers to the questions and we announce the winners along with the answers. When you get an answer right, you get a point. The highest scores are featured in the hall of fame!
We have many other guest quiz masters who will be sharing their brilliance with us!
So, take a look. We assure you it will be fun.

Funda behind the name:
Boiledbeans derives its name from Bengalooru, which originally was called benda kaLooru, which simply translates to quot;the city where the beans got bakedquot;.

This is an English quiz, written in PHP. You can play this to improve your vocabulary and prepare for tests like the GRE or just to have some fun.
NEW!! Updated to the Barron’s GRE word list!! Has 4816 words in database!
Click on the image to start playing

I had originally coded this in 2005 when I was preparing for the GRE. Although the wordlist I have had (now with Barron’s word list) is not very good, the game is not bad. It did help me in the beginning.

This release is officially version 1.1
Change log:

1. Based on the Barron’s GRE wordlist
2. Fixed the n+1 question error
3. Fixed the random hack which could be used to get 10/10 each time
4. Changed the copyright to 2007 only in the result page

Coming up:

1. Better wordlist Already up!!
2. Ajaxification
3. Better AI in picking the wrong choices
4. Synonyms, antonyms, example usage and more!!

What does it do?
Simple. Lets you type Indian language kannada in any textarea box on a webpage.
You can toggle between English and Kannada keyboards using F12.

Wow! Where do I find it?
here http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/10251

What about tamil, telugu, marathi, bengali?
Coming soon!!

What license?
All code not marked with the (c) Monusoft is released under GPL version 2 or higher.

Does it work?
Of course yes!
Tested on blogger,orkut,gmail,livejournal,facebook and many such sites.

Where can I find the keyboard layout?
Here ( Click to enlarge )

Thanks to http://vishalon.net http://monusoft.com

Talakadu is a nice place for a weekend getaway from Bangalore. It is on the banks of the glorious Cauvery river and the river bed is completely sand. It is like a fresh water beach. Really nice place to spend a whole day. It is just off Maddur and can be reached via Mysore road from Bangalore. As an added attraction, there are a few very old temples, including one of quot;Vaidyanatheshwaraquot; (the Shiva of Medicine).
I went there with my friends, and was amazing fun. I have a some pictures from Talakadu put up in the gallery section.
Click here to see the pictures from Talakadu

Introducing, the all new and improved Gallery! Here are a few of the major feature update and usability improvements.

1. ajax based image fetch and display
2. ajax based comments
3. zoom an image to get a higerresolution version     
4. Better navigation once you are in the gallery, these   options work
   • Click on the big image to go to the nextimage in the current album
   • Click on any image in the filmstrip totake you to that image
   • Obviously, clicking on the previous andnext links take you to the prev and next linksrespectively
5. More image based details
6. Basic HTML support

Thats enough bragging for a day, get clicking to the gallery section!