Sep 07 2006

Win32 Programming

Hi there! My name is Pravin Paratey and welcome to my spot on the web. This page contains Windows programming resources for the beginner and intermediate windows programmer.

If you're new to windows programming, take a look around.

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Building a url shortener in 10 mins: A 10 minute guide to building your own url shortener i.e. a service that lets you shorten a long url - http://pravin.insanitybegins.com to a url that takes up less number of characters - http://goo.gl/q3jEH

Going Text-mode: I spend a great deal of time working on the Terminal. Here, I list my must-have console applications for email, www browsing, and programming in Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.

Setting up Replica sets in MongoDB: A 5-minute guide to setting up replica sets on MongoDB. Covers downloading, installation on various flavours of linux, editing the config file and initiating replica sets!

Super quick Find & Replace: This article explores a number of ways of performing a find/replace and compares the various implementations for different sizes of the find/replace list and input text.

Set data structures & Implementation: Sets are an important concept and extremely useful in various computer science applications. We take a look at some of the ways a set data structure can be implemented.

Manage your wireless with nmcli: This article shows you how to use the command line tool nmcli to manage your wireless networks. If you prefer cli over gui, go ahead and take a look.

Binary heaps & Priority Queues: Heaps and Queues can be a powerful data structure. This article goes into the implementation of a binary heap and extends the data structure to act as a priority queue.

Recursive functions, Stack overflows and Python: Here we look at recursive functions in Python, and explore some ways of avoiding the maximum stack depth limit by using alternate functions like reduce().

Facebook puzzle - Find Sophie: Today we solve the FB engineering puzzle - Find Sophie. We start with a naive solution and improve the algorithm until we can pass the Facebook Puzzlebot. In closing, I leave you with open-ended questions on improving the algorithm further.

Palindromic sub-sequences in python: This bit of python code returns all palindromic subsequences in the input string. Nothing to see here, I was just having a meh moment.