JavaScript Associative Arrays Demystified

Javascript hides a lot of arsenal beneath its simplicity. In this post I’ve tried to explain normal javascript arrays and associative arrays starting with absolute basics and then presenting the advance concepts that are often overlooked but are simple to understand and are very handy. I’m not a Javascript guru . This post is more […]

x86 Emulator in Java – Cool!

Before I write anything about it, here’s the link to the JPC project http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/index.html It’s a nice feat these guys have achieved by creating an emulator for Intel x86 architecture in Java. I’m not sure how useful this project would be, but it’s a cool peice of software . Hats off to the JPC developers. […]

Git and Trac – A Love Story.

This is a post I’ve written at my Company blog. Here’s a small excerpt and the link to the complete post. Git and Trac – A Love Story Git and Trac, both got married very recently (at our setup ), and the newlywed couple are quite a charm to work with. It all started with […]

Overcoming the fear of Python

As all C, C++ and Perl devotees, I too looked upon Python with apprehension. Python? What? I asked. The very idea of white-spaces being part of syntax gave me jitters and I convulsed with disgust. Why Python? Perl can do it. OOP? Perl has it … errm .. Kind of. After reading numerous articles about […]

xstress – xk0derz SMTP Stress Testing Tool

xstress is a tool developed by me, that allows users to stress test (their) SMTP Mail servers. The tool is pretty straight forward (and very simple too). It creates multiple connections to the mail server and pumps e-mail traffic on those connection. That’s it. The good thing is that you can configure lots of parameter […]

Good Design or Smart Engineering?

This is one question that haunts (new) software engineers day after day. We learned from the days of BASIC to Java and .NET that goto is an incarnation of devil itself, but we find goto in code written by the so called ‘elite’ programmers. What does this mean? Was all that computer science we learned […]

Current URL in FireFox

I required this while creating an extension for Firefox that bookmarked the current URL at some site. After some hacking I found that the Address bar object that displays the current tab’s URL has the id set to ‘urlbar’ Following simple Javascript code accomplishes the task var obj = document.getElementById(“urlbar”); returns the reference of the […]