Now Amit is one of the preeminent Indian bloggers with a loyal readership. He recently had his first novel published as well. The tips are many and one would have read them somewhere, but I thought it was a nice compilation of points to keep in your mind while writing.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
How To Split A Huge CSV Excel Workbook Into Separate Files
Linked from Makeuseof.com
I recently started working with a company that does HUGE mailing lists. I deal with a lot of records everyday but this really is a lot of data.They have an opt-in mailing list that they blast to once or twice a month. When I say huge I am talking about between 7 and 8 million email addresses.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Excel Tips
This is kind of a ready reckoner for myself and hopefully useful to anyone who visits this blog. There are so many tips and tricks to achieve some not so easy tasks in excel. Over a period of time one gains sufficient experience and learns how to get some stuff done.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
MonaLisa in MS Paint
I’m sure many of you must have already seen these video, but this is the first time I saw it and was stunned beyond words. As if creating something so brilliant with a mouse itself is not amazing enough(though I have a feeling the artist used a tablet), the whole thing was done using Microsoft’s much maligned and abused MS Paint.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Google fusion tables: is it from Gapminder?
Quite some time back, I had come across this talk by Hans Rosling at ted.com. Ted is one site, which I frequently visit to listen to great speakers, tech leaders and futuristic ideas. Hans is a Swedish professor, who built a tool to present data in a visual format using multiple dimensions rather than the usual 2 dimensional graphs.