Vimalkumar Velayudhan
Background: Learnt Biotechnology, taught Bioinformatics and now doing more of Information technology!
Work: Research Program Manager [System, Network and Database Admin, Developer, Database curator, General Project Management].
Interests: Building applications (Desktop, Web and Mobile) to solve interesting problems.
Likes/+1: Linux, Python, PyQt, HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, Bioinformatics, Android, Design, Gadgets, Photography.
Built: Citebot, about:authors, VLinux, bioinformatist.org
Activities: Listening to podcasts(audio, video), reading news and books, keeping abreast of technology, watching documentaries, Indian music.
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Posts
- Dec 31, 11
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 31,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many [...]
- Nov 02, 11
Some things I’ve learnt recently. Simple boolean function to check if a column exists SELECT EXISTS(SELECT 1 FROM information_schema.columns WHERE table_name = tabname AND column_name = col1) Identify duplicate values in columns SELECT key FROM tabname GROUP BY key HAVING (COUNT(key) > 1) col1 is an integer but I wanted it formatted as text in [...]
- Oct 10, 11
Tutorial delivered at PyCon Ireland 2011. This was a quick introduction to developing a GUI using PyQt. I used the sphinx-build command from the Sphinx documentation project as an example. The basic command for generating HTML documentation from source files is sphinx-build sourcedir outdir A GUI(dialog) was designed using Qt Designer to replicate the functionality [...]
- Sep 01, 11
This was a short introduction on using python with databases that I delivered to a group of visiting researchers. Slides: python-databases.pdf Code: github.com Outline Python modules for working with databases SQLite pyodbc Client software Create and connect to a database Create a table Inserting a row Inserting multiple rows Retrieving data Updating data Example using [...]
- Jun 26, 11
Just created a repository for the Sphinx themes I have been creating for the various documentation projects. These themes were created by modifying the base themes included with Sphinx. Here are some screenshots. Agni (means Fire) Jal (means Water) VLinux-theme (used for the VLinux project) Download Agni – agni-1.0.zip Jal – jal-1.0.zip VLinux-theme – vlinux-theme-1.0.zip [...]
- Mar 11, 11
CyanogenMod 7 (Android 2.3/Gingerbread) port for Milestone (RC4, but quite stable) – http://android.doshaska.net/cm7 The instructions to update are similar to what I have posted before except that there is no need to install OpenRecovery and all three data wipe options should be used including the Factory reset. NOTE: This is going to wipe out all [...]
- Feb 10, 11
I was trying to do this today and came across couple of different ways of including content from other documents. My first attempt was to use .. literalinclude:: but that is only good for including code or text. What I wanted was to include sections from other documents into the current document so that any [...]
- Feb 06, 11
Just came to know about Arista, a transcoder for Linux from the Linux Action Show. It was in the packman repo for openSUSE and I installed it while watching the show. Gave it a try on a 170mb flash video and converted it for my Milestone android phone (Droid/Milestone preset). The resulting MP4 video was [...]
- Feb 03, 11
Didn’t know that feature existed! http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/posting-source-code/
- Feb 01, 11
This is a copy of the post I made in the Boxee forums and is about compiling Boxee from source code under openSUSE 11.3. I had the required libraries installed before. Most of them can be found in the openSUSE oss or the Packman repositories. Download the latest source boxee-sources-0.9.23.15885.tar.bz2 Extract the archive cd Downloads [...]
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Repositories
- Scripts written for some common tasks in Bionumerics1 fork / 4 watchers / Pushed Dec 21, 11
- Interactive visualization of author profiles on Elsevier's Sciverse platform1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Nov 30, 11
- Code examples from my recent talk on Python and databases1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- Themes for the Python Sphinx documentation system2 forks / 6 watchers / Pushed Jun 26, 11
- Icon theme for Mozilla Thunderbird using the Oxygen iconset2 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 11
- Scripts written for some common tasks in Bionumerics1 fork / 4 watchers / Pushed Dec 21, 11
- Interactive visualization of author profiles on Elsevier's Sciverse platform1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Nov 30, 11
- Code examples from my recent talk on Python and databases1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- Themes for the Python Sphinx documentation system2 forks / 6 watchers / Pushed Jun 26, 11
- Icon theme for Mozilla Thunderbird using the Oxygen iconset2 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 11
- 12 forks / 32 watchers / Pushed Jun 11, 11
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Repositories
- Scripts written for some common tasks in Bionumerics1 fork / 4 watchers / Pushed Dec 21, 11
- Interactive visualization of author profiles on Elsevier's Sciverse platform1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Nov 30, 11
- Code examples from my recent talk on Python and databases1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- Themes for the Python Sphinx documentation system2 forks / 6 watchers / Pushed Jun 26, 11
- Icon theme for Mozilla Thunderbird using the Oxygen iconset2 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 11
- Scripts written for some common tasks in Bionumerics1 fork / 4 watchers / Pushed Dec 21, 11
- Interactive visualization of author profiles on Elsevier's Sciverse platform1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Nov 30, 11
- Code examples from my recent talk on Python and databases1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Aug 31, 11
- Themes for the Python Sphinx documentation system2 forks / 6 watchers / Pushed Jun 26, 11
- Icon theme for Mozilla Thunderbird using the Oxygen iconset2 forks / 2 watchers / Pushed Jun 22, 11
- 12 forks / 32 watchers / Pushed Jun 11, 11
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Tweets
- Doing Biotech in My Bedroom http://t.co/OZC85unQ (via @TechReview)
- I like the dark blue iconset. Humanity Icons Colors: 8 Different Colors For Humanity Icon Theme http://t.co/6c1LVC0p via @WebUpd8
- http://t.co/nad1THIr Official Wikipedia App Available In The Android Market
- Blog: 2011 in review http://t.co/4uq9mTXv
- Meet the real transformers: Best robots of the year (video) http://t.co/VtbJJd0u via @CNET
- Download this app to determine if your Android phone or tablet has Carrier IQ: http://t.co/2lnY4gH7
- Now a #diaspora user http://t.co/2o46THLd
- Fixit for Duqu http://t.co/xL5TxxuV
- PostgreSQL notes http://t.co/MWs6NXTr
- BioStar: An Online Question & Answer Resource for the Bioinformatics Community http://t.co/vYMBNu60 #PLoS via @citebot
- Open source principles applied to cancer research http://t.co/7UsAHJVc #inOct 27, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Disabled the Facebook upload manager service. 30mb RAM for a rarely used service is too much! Thanks to http://t.co/4ysnJm2COct 15, 11 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Mark Pilgrim is not on the web anymore! His diveintopython was one of my preferred Python reference. Luckily, I have a backup copy
- Alt+F2 disabled for some reason. Fixed http://t.co/xOUmDRwx
- Installed Ubuntu 11.10. using GNOME 3 instead of Unity
- Ubuntu 11.10 is the best Ubuntu yet. Find out why. #ubuntu http://t.co/xi55PR76
- My answer to Stack Exchange Ask Ubuntu Q: Auto convert odt to pdf http://t.co/8DYk96WR
