In 2004, typing in Indic languages was a challenging task, as transliteration tools were still in the early stages of development. As a personal passion project, I had developed a small utility for transliteration from English to Devanagari. At the time, I was working in my first job. I was given th ...

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I have wonderful memories of a primitive Internet of Things system we built in 2002. I had only begun to become acquainted with CGI programming and was fascinated to discover how real-world websites worked. CGI (Common Gateway Interface) enabled me to create C programs that can receive HTML form in ...

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This occurred during my second year of engineering. I used to like spending time in the library reading books on ‘off-topic’ subjects. People thought it was unusual that I spent the most of my time reading computer and programming books as an electronics engineer. One afternoon, the book ‘Tcl and th ...

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In my prior post, I described my daring quest of gaining admission to the Electronics Engineering program. We had to stay at my father’s friend’s house because the admissions procedure had been postponed until the next day. There, I discovered an excellent C++ book called C++ Program Design by Cohoo ...

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My 12th grade results were announced. I had always wanted to pursue computer engineering, but my PCM (Physics-Chemistry-Maths) scores were not up to par (though they weren’t horrible). There was a lot of doubt and anxiety. My father was an optimist , h e always believed that I will make it to Comput ...

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Ever since my father got me a computer, I’ve been nagging him to get me an internet connection. Back then, the internet was considered a ‘luxury item’ rather than a need. The only internet service available was dial-up. This entailed paying for internet and phone bills, which were not insignificant ...

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I have a emotional connect with this CD. It came with the book Using Visual C++ 5 (Special Edition). I still remember the day when I walked into a bookstore in Dadar(Mumbai) with my father and asked him to buy this book for me. I had recently become comfortable with Foxpro 2.5, and my next target wa ...

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It was summer of 1997, I was in the 9th grade. My father had promised to buy me a computer after the exams. This PC arrived when I was away at a summer camp. I was so excited to get back home and check it out. It was a Pentium machine, with 256 MB RAM, SoundBlaster card, SVGA display and a 80 GB HDD ...

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