Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}

I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.

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  • Access MSSQL with Python!!!

    I started using Python a while ago and one of the things I need to do is to be able to connect to Microsoft SQL server from Linux servers… Its suprising that only a few projects are alive for it… One of them is the commercial MxODBC from eGenix, while the other is called pymssql… …

  • How to install Easy Install for Python!!!

    How to install Easy Install on Ubuntu Linux $ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools python-dev build-essential How to install Easy Install on Windows Go to http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall#installing-easy-install Right click on “ez_setup.py” and save the file to “c:temp” Open a cmd.exe prompt “cd c:temp” “python ez_setup.py” How to install Easy Install on Cygwin $ cd /tmp $ wget …

  • Google’s Go : Python Meets C++!!!

    Have you heard about Go?? It an Open Source programming language developed by Google. Google says that Go is an experimental programming language and combines the development speed of working in a dynamic language like Python with the performance and safety of a compiled language like C or C++. Here’s what Google’s post had to …

  • Python Script for Cricket Score!!!

    Here’s a script that i wrote to get the latest cricket score without visiting the site. It’s a python script that makes use of rediff scores. import urllib class Score(object): SCORE_URL = “” def __init__(self): self.vars = {} # dictionary variables read from the score file def refresh(self): “”"Refresh the score”"” url_opener = urllib.URLopener() url …