Better commute planning with commute.py

My office recently moved to one of the busiest commercial areas in the suburbs, which is good since a lot of people travel there from different parts of the city. The public transport system is good, has a nice frequency and is cheap. But as always with too many commuters come bad traffic conditions and discomfort. For someone like me who wants to minimize the time and cost spent during the commute, while at the same time maximize the comfort this became an interesting problem to solve.

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Few interesting python scripts

This is a collection of few of my python scripts which I am particularly proud of, few gems from collection which were mostly result of my curiosity and laziness ;-). The scripts here are for educational and demo purposes. They were intended to be a proof of concept, not most of them are not maintained.

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[Q] What is the most important thing you learnt as a software engineer through experience?

Couple of months back I completed my first year at Enthought. Before that I have worked twice in Google Summer of Code for Drupal. There are quite a few things I learnt while working on various projects:

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[Weekend Project] DropHere

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A few weeks back, I wrote DropHere. Its written using CoffeeScript, Node.js and Express.js and some HTML5 Drag and Drop APIs.

I created this project as a simple drag-and-drop file uploading service. It uploads files to relevant file uploading service. For example, if you drop an image file, it will be uploaded to Imgur and similarly text files will be uploaded to Pastebin.

You can check out the live demo over here.

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finally always guaranteed

Let's start off with a question. Given the following code sample:

What do you think the call to foo() will return ?

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[Tutorial] Using OAuth2.0 with Google+

The initial API for Google+ was released on 15th September, 2011. But, this API currently supports only public data, and user data (which can be accessed from any web application or web site). However, there no support for building Google+ applications. It follows a RESTful API design and provides OAuth2.0 for authentication.

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Comparison between form based and syntax based query building

Many friends of mine have questions and doubts regarding the “Specialized Syntax based Query Building” system. They would, however, prefer the “Form-based Query Building”. Why do we need such a system, when the conventional system is working fine ? Why does the user have to type a “Specialized Syntax”, can’t he just use SQL ? and many more questions arise. Lets consider the following scenario:

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