Learning curve: Work and Reflection

Yahoo Open hack  Let's define Hack - Anything which reduces the effort and make things simple to handle. It has been over a month since the 5th Yahoo Open Hack Day Bangalore that took place on 11th - 12th August 2012 at Sheraton, Brigade Gateway. It was overall awesome experience with pool of hackers hacking over night sitting on their bean bags. Though some took power naps, none from our team felt the need. The excellent hospitality by sherlton and superb yahoo team headed by Anil Patel deserves more than just words of appreciation. Adding to that was indigo 91.9 covering the entire event nicely and the laser show on the first day. I heard there was some recreation room to refresh the tired minds, sad we didn't used that. We were a team of 4, Sandeep , Dayanand , Karthik  and myself , while karthik took over the front end work along with some efforts from sandeep, others worked on backend taking care of integrating and parsing all the required ap...

Two step google authentication is great. Today i has setup two step google authentication for gmail(though i'm very late to use that). After that when i started my mail client, it said the passwod is incorrect. For a fraction,  i could not realise what could be the issue and then i figured the application registration needs to be done. It's very simple and i have tried to explain it nicely. Options we can configure: Add a phone no and also can add a backup contact no. Configuring you applications i.e mail clients as they fail when you enter the password, Access the url: https://www.google.com/settings/account Go to this url as you are logged in, it redirects to gmail account settings page. Click security and and find the option Authorizing applications and sites. Click on Edit, and it asks for password. Once you enter the password it redirects to a screen which displays all the registered services. Enter the name of the application, like Gmail...

Start using regex   The below definitions have been pulled from  Regex Basics just to have a basic understanding before we start practising. I have just displayed some basic things used and would keep updating the post as the time permits. Literal     A literal is any character we use in a search or matching expression, for example, to find ind in windows the ind is a literal string - each character plays a part in the search, it is literally the string we want to find. Metacharacter     A metacharacter is one or more special characters that have a unique meaning and are NOT used as literals in the search expression, for example, the character ^ (circumflex or caret) is a metacharacter. Target string     This term describes the string that we will be searching, that is, the string in which we want to find our match or search pattern. Search expression     Most commonly called the regular expression. T...