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25 Oct, 2008

Recursion, Misunderstood

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

My experience with the Electrical Engineers in academics is that they usually view Computer Science in terms of circuits and details of how things work at the most tangible level. One hazard of using this approach in teaching is that many times you end up with some wrong core concepts of Computer Science. They enable […]

20 Oct, 2008

Installing OS with Bootable USB

Posted by: sharjeel In: sysadmin

Laziness is a quality of  great programmers. I tried to be amongst them by not taking the headache of putting a DVD-ROM Drive in my new test server machine for installation of an Operating System. And who really wants to get bothered by unscrewing the case, connecting the drive’s data and power cables, burning the […]

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08 Oct, 2008

Car parking @ LUMS

Posted by: sharjeel In: Eye-Witness

Bob Sutton, author of “The No Asshole Rule” writes:
“One of the examples of rude behavior that comes up in The Civility Solution is people who park in obviously selfish ways.  I was talking to a friend of mine the other day and she complained about someone we know who prides himself in taking two spaces […]

02 Oct, 2008

django standalone scripts

Posted by: sharjeel In: Programming

Standalone scripts and cron jobs are integral part of any significantly complex web based application. We use them in our applications for health monitoring, mails sending, computing scores and ratings, deferred tasks and job queues such as video processing etc.
To make a python script work which uses django’s functionality, you need to have the required […]



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  • Recursion, Misunderstood: [...] If you still don’t get what recursion is, see “Recursion, Misunderstood” by Sharjeel Ahmed Qureshi. [...]

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