Attendance percentage via SMS
I have been hacking on a new project lately . To send the attendance percentage of a student ( Available on our college website ) as an SMS . It’s now live at http://attendance.sebin.in so check it out !
For those interested , the site was built using Google app engine and python . The SMS sending part is hosted elsewhere and kind of acts as a back-end .Because the App engine handles cookies differently, my script to ermm.. “leverage” the SMS provider and send those texts ,did not work . So I had to host it somewhere else to make it do so.
Other than that , thanks to Twitter’s Bootstrap for making things so easy on the design front and to @jishnu7 whose sms attendance project was an inspiration and guide for mine !
If you are in Model Engineering College ,do sign up at http://attendance.sebin.in
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Hmm Nice Question, It would be either Crete or the Amazons !
Rooting Your LG Optimus One P500 Having Andriod 2.2.1
If my loyal readers haven’t known , I brought myself an Android Phone ! The LG Optimus One P500. The Phone’s been awesome and I’m already in love with it.
If you don’t know what’s rooting or what is the advantage ? I suggest you read this
But as every good thing, This one has it’s rough edges. Being loaded with android 2.2.1 means it has to be Downgraded ( Scary ! ) to 2.2 before rooting it ! .. Until I found This !
An App called Ginger Break makes it easy as a breeze to root your phone .Just
- Copy the .apk to your memory card
- Install the App
- Go to Applications -> Developer ->Turn USB Debugging On and tap it on.
- Run the App.
- Wait a few minutes. If everything goes right , your phone ought to reboot within 6-7 minutes and Voila you have a rooted phone !
My Phone has the following specs , for the concerned.
Android 2.2.1 Lg proprietary ROM
Software version v10c.
Do read the thread at XDA to clarify.
You are warned that rooting is serious business and you might brick your phone ! (Marginally small possibility ). Also you are doing this on your own risk ! You could also void your warranty.
So root your phone , stay safe and let me sign off to play Angry Birds :)
Python Script to Poke your Facebook Friends
I have these friends on Facebook who wage long and vicious Poke-wars ! So a battle weary me decided to cheat a little bit and created a Python Script which lets you poke back the friends who have poked you on Facebook !
The script is in python and you need a little python module called Beautiful Soup to run it .For those who are unfamiliar with Python or Beautiful soup , They are both very easy to install and if you are using Linux, chances are you have python installed already ! . In Linux , Download beautiful soup , unzip it , Whip out the command shell and go to the folder where you unzipped. then type python setup.py install
Once you have Beautiful Soup installed, Download the script , save it as poke.py , Navigate to it with the command shell and the usage is
python poke.py username password
There you have it ! a script to fight back :D
Stackwork
About the past 2 months or so , I’ve been having my way with Python ,the sexy language that everyone’s been posting their code in ! Also Google’s appengine caught my attention. So here you have Stackwork , a simple , barebone TODO list app that i wrote in python and hosted on Google’s App Engine .
Take a peek at it : http://stackwork.appspot.com
Try it out and give me Feedbacks folks :) and It’s shiny new so there’ll be bugs.
UPDATE: I put it up on Hackernews and got great feedback. Join the discussion there.
