A trip down memory lane to assembly and hex
Glancing through the FREE book “Reverse Engineering for Beginners“, brought a lot of fun memories that I had with assembly language and doing Hex dump of executables. Sharing two examples…
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Python code to list movie details
This post and code has been updated as on 21th November 2019. The other day, I wanted to retrieve posts from my own blog corresponding to a list of movies…
Batch convert image files in Windows
Having been a Windows GUI guy for nearly two decades, I am rediscovering the charm of command-line and Windows Batch files to automate repetitive tasks. A few weeks back, I…
Making a PDF ebook with Tamil text searchable and to get a clean scan copy
சில நாட்களுக்கு முன் நண்பர் மணி மணிவண்ணன் அவரது பேஸ்புக் பக்கத்தில், தமிழ்நாட்டுப் பாடநூல் நிறுவனம், சென்னை, 1985இல் வெளியிட்ட”தமிழ்- தமிழ் அகரமுதலி” என்ற நூல் இலவசமாக மின் புத்தக வடிவில் கிடைக்கிறது எனவும், அதன் இணைப்பையும் கொடுத்திருந்தார். பயனுள்ள நூல்…
A Windows batch file to do a simple backup of a WordPress site
I have a production WordPress blog site that is hosted on IIS & Windows Server 2016. To do regular backups of the web folder and the MySQL database, I use…
Python and Google Cloud Vision for Tamil text
Update: If you are looking for a simpler way to do Tamil Text OCR, then check this post which shows how you can do with batch files. Learning anything new…
Python code snippets for Speech in Tamil
Using Python is fun. In a matter of minutes, I was able to build a rudimentary speech to text recognition app, for Tamil. And after that, in reverse, that is,…
Writing .NET Core apps for Windows, Mac OS & Linux
Having got the newly released “Visual Studio 2017” installed in my PC, I decided to try writing cross-platform .NET Core Apps. I started with the simplest of apps, to write…