Monday, October 6, 2008

Reading/Writing Microsoft Excel in Python

Creating report invariably ends up with using excel and most of the time the data for same isn't really in excel format. Yeah, it comes in through cvs files. And most of the time one would end up sync the csv file into the excel file and vice versa (probably).

This is where, I dig around on the internet and found this amazing stuff:
xlrd:
According to the author:
Provide a library for developers to use to extract information from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files. It is not an end-user tool.

A good wrapper for same is available here:
readexcel:
According to the author:
readexcel is a somewhat streamlined rewrite of this small python wrapper class by Bryan Niederberger on top of John Machin's xlrd package, intending to make reading worksheets in an Excel file even simpler and more convenient.

... on the side note, the ExcelMailer is pretty exciting stuff, I had written similar thing previously and am gonna try the same.

~LT

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Effect of dishonouring the faith...

Came across a thought provoking reading regarding lehman brothers, home loan, AIG, a must read and a reminder of investment institutions:

http://www.shyamscolumn.com/2008/10/cost-of-financial-ingenuity700-billion.html

http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true&pli=1


~LT

Friday, October 3, 2008

Plasma: Power Hoggers and Heat dissipators!

Yeah,I know this has been debated countless times, again and again, over the mails, in the forums. However what I am gonna write is nothing about that. Well, honestly, it's bit related but not entirely. I am already decided upon LCD and am hunting for the right deal, however yesterday, accidently ended up being in a plasma showroom. The first thing that I noticed over there is: HEAT. Prior to this I always ended upon being in a LCD showroom and never felt heat around me, but at this showroom, I kept on feeling it.

Secondly, since these plasma, as we already know consume quite a good chunk of wattage, consequently, I anticipated that to be converted into heat, but not this much, what I experienced over at the shop, convinced me to pitch for the LCD!

~LT

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Linux vs Mac vs PC

Came across this interesting video, won't blabber too much about it, here it is:



~LT

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

LG: Why you should avoid it?

Came across this shocking piece of story: http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/46667-anyone-working-lg-consumer-products-need-help.html.

Surprisingly, I have come across many bad incidents related to LG. Friend, if you are reading this, avoid LG!

~LT


Mine search for insecticide...




Hmmm...

I had been searching for insecticide around Aundh/Shivaji Nagar/Wakad (all in Pune) for a very long time. Google didn't help me much about it. I had done search on pune.justdial.com as well, however nothing concrete from there as well. Finally, yesterday, I went to Wakad, located a nursery, asked the chap in there about "Rogar". That guys gave me a through look and then replied "for plants", I confirmed. He then mentioned that I won't find it there on that road. "The nearest location where you can find it would be dange chowk, chinchwad", he replied. Determined I was to get the insecticide, as I couldn't allow the plants to suffer, I ended up being at following shop:

Bhartiya Agro Chemicals
Fertilisers, Seeds, Insecticide
Dange Square, Parmar Chambers, Hinjewadi Road
Thergaon, Pune - 33.

# 9922420355
# 02032545484


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Purchased: Super - D, have sprayed them on the plants. I am hopefull and will see the results in couple of days.
Chemical Composition of same: Chlorpyriphos 50% + Cypermethrin 5%

Edit:

Got hold of some snaps depicting the disease:


~LT

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Are you there, my child?

Ahhh dear!

So you are here on an impulse buy: http://www.techenclave.com/925540-post17.html

Hmmmm, I am an hopeless techie... whats gonna happen of me!

~LT