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Present is a present
Like the pulse of our hearts, our lives are divided in positive and negative chapters. God has his own ways to put these chapters in an interesting order. After all, a director never wants his movie the boring one. I have lived those interesting chapters too, felt each and every moment deeply and even remember… Continue reading Present is a present
Introduction to SASS
SASS stands for Syntactically Awesome Style Sheet. It is basically a pre-processor to CSS. What does that mean is, we’ll write in SASS which gets transpiled to CSS and then parsed by the browser to load the styles of our site. Why SASS? If you know about a famous software engineering principle, DRY which stands… Continue reading Introduction to SASS
Responsive Designs
Have you ever read an article online? I’m sure you did. Was it instructed to read on mobile only? No, that’s your wish, right? You will decide, whether you want to view it or read its content on mobile, tablet or laptop. But have you ever wondered, how these websites fits everywhere? Today, we’ll get… Continue reading Responsive Designs
Coding period begins
As the coding period started today, we (BRL-CAD GSOC students) got a mail from Sean to remind us about writing dev logs daily and other important things. Also I got the parcel having a beautiful diary with a printed GSOC’15 logo on it, a pen and a sticker. Such cute gifts always feel heavenly and… Continue reading Coding period begins
Lexertl – a lexer generator
Lexertl is a header only library used to generator lexical analyzer. It is written by Ben Hanson and its official documentation is here. We have decided to use lexertl as lexer generator tool for our scadlexer of OpenSCAD. Although lexertl has a lot of good features, like, unicode support etc, as per the documentation, but… Continue reading Lexertl – a lexer generator
Flex and Bison – Lets use it!
For last few days, a topic is itching us and always come under great discussions with my friends and teachers that should we use tools, to generate lexers and parsers or write our own. As many large programming languages and softwares such as The Ruby programming language (YARV) The PHP programming language (Zend Parser) The… Continue reading Flex and Bison – Lets use it!
GSOC Reunion 2014 at US (a brief)
From where to start! 😛 It can take a life time, expressing how it feels when a Big dream of your life came true. 22 Oct, 2014 when our plane landed in San Francisco, US on the day of Diwali (a very important festival of Indian culture), after travelling thousands of miles from India, we… Continue reading GSOC Reunion 2014 at US (a brief)
Lexers and Parsers
Whenever we deal with a computer language, say making a compiler, translator, interpreter or converter. Our first requirement is some tool or engine that can read our code file and divide it into tokens such as identifiers, operators, etc. This is known as Lexical Analysis and is done by a program known as lexer. For… Continue reading Lexers and Parsers
Better Educate than force
Every thing has pros and cones, it’s better known by everyone. But how important is to know that which face of the coin is right for you is need to be educated. It was a generation which was forced on the name of superstition not to wash clothes on Thursday, instead of making them understand… Continue reading Better Educate than force
