About

This is Vasudev Ram's software consulting and training business site.

Vasudev is an independent software consultant, trainer and writer based in Pune, India. Has many years experience in the software field. Has worked on many different languages, technologies and platforms. Job functions done include software development, project management and UNIX/Linux system administration. Former employers include Veritas Software (acquired by Symantec Software in 2004), and Infosys Technologies; (did software development and software project management at both of them). Information about his software, articles, blogs, skills, etc. follows.

• Blogs:

  • jugad's Journal, my blog on software innovation  -  Subscribe in a reader  -  Why it's called jugad
  
  (NOTE: Nowadays I'm mostly posting on the newer blog, jugad2, below. But you may want to check out this one too, since it has some good posts, IMO of course.)
  
  • My newer blog: jugad2 - Vasudev Ram on software innnovation  -  Subscribe in a reader
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• Writings:

  • Developing a Linux command-line utility  
    An article for IBM developerWorks, a great site for developers
    Chinese translation of the article
    Japanese translation of the article
  
  
  • Using xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit
    An article for Packt Publishing , about creating PDF output from
    Plain Text, DBF, CSV, TDV, and XLS Data
    "Now creating PDFs from Python is even easier" - Steve Holden
    
  
  
  • A vi quickstart tutorial first published in Linux For You magazine
    
    

• Software:

  • xtopdf, a PDF creation toolkit for Python
    
    A toolkit to convert other file formats (x) to PDF
  
  
  • PDFXMLRPC, a client-server PDF creation toolkit for Python
    
    A client-server toolkit for PDF creation from text over the Internet
  
  
  • xtortf (No version released yet)
    
    A toolkit to convert other file formats (x) to RTF
  
  

• Certifications (from BrainBench):
  

  
  

  Master C Programmer	[Logo not available]
  Master RDBMS Developer
  Master Java 1 Programmer
  Master UNIX Administrator
  OO Concepts
  Java 2 Non-GUI Programmer
  Linux Administrator
  UNIX Programmer	[Logo not available]
  Project Manager	[Logo not available]

  
  
  • BrainBench Public Transcript
    (most certificates have expired online, hard copies available):
    
  
  

• Links:

  • IBM developerWorks
    
  
  
  • O'Reilly Network
    
  
  
  • Python
    
  
  
  • Java
  
  
  • Perl
    
  
  
  • Steve McConnell: one of the three most influential people
    in the software industry - readers of Software Development magazine
    
  
  
  • Martin Fowler - Chief Scientist, Thoughtworks; author of patterns
    and other books; thought leader
    
  
  
  • David Mertz - Author of Text Processing in Python;
    (http://gnosis.cx/TPiP); IBM developerWorks columnist -
    Charming Python and XML Matters.
    
  
  

• Sites that I browse periodically:

  • Google Web Search
    
  • Hacker News
    
  • O'Reilly Radar
    
  • TechCrunch.com
    
  • programming.reddit.com
    
  • Google Groups - comp.lang.python
    
  • Google Groups - comp.text.pdf
    
  • The Times of India
    
  • The New York Times
    
  • O'Reilly Network
    
  • IBM DeveloperWorks
    
  • Python Official Website
    
  • Perl.com - The source for Perl
    
  • Java.sun.com: The Source for Java Developers
    
  • Yahoo Weather