Author Archives: Babu Srinivasan

About Babu Srinivasan

My interests are in computer security, cryptography, functional programming and general aviation. I occasionally write articles on these and other topics in my blog.

Haskell for teaching algorithms

Note 1: This article is executable code. You can copy and paste this article in a file with extension .lhs (say crypto.lhs), load it in a haskell interpreter and run… Read more »

Back to the future — Carnatic music on FM Radio

If you live in Bangalore and love Carnatic music, have long commutes in horrible traffic, there is something to keep your stress levels down. On FM 100.1 Mhz, you get… Read more »

Writing Android apps in Scala — Part 1

This is the first part of my article on writing Android apps in Scala. The application is called excusms. You can download the code and README.pdf from github. The first… Read more »

If you don’t git it first, try again

They say that necessity is the mother of invention and we have to be thankful to Larry McVoy for making it necessary for Linus Torvalds to invent git. Larry McVoy… Read more »