Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

I was playing with Go programming language (Golang) recently. Go looks like an interesting programming language.  I will show you how you can install Go in a 64 bit GNU/Linux system. Installation To install Go in a 64 bit GNU/Linux: cd $HOME wget -c https://go.googlecode.com/files/go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz tar zxvf go1.1.2.linux-amd64.tar.gz mkdir mygo You can download source and binary packages of Go from from here:  https://code.google.com/p/go/downloads/list To set PATH and other environment variables, add these lines at the end of $HOME/.bashrc: export GOROOT=$HOME/go export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin export GOPATH=$HOME/mygo export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin Running a program To run a program: go run <program.go> Here is an example hello world program: package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, world.\n") } Save the above code in a hello.go and run it like this: go run hello.go You can build (compile) a...

I received the first Kenneth Gonsalves Memorial Award for contributions towards advocacy and adoption of Python programming language in India. My thanks to the Indian Python Programming Community and Python Software Society of India (PSSI) for the award. The award was given on the first day of PyCON India 2013 conference (last Saturday).  This is the 5th year of   PyCON India , There was more than 1100 attendees this time. The keynotes, talks, workshops and panel discussion (on Python in education) were great. I had my workshop (tutorial) on Selenium last Friday. I hope the video will be available soon.