Come December every year, and I start feeling nostalgic. Of all the things I did earlier throughout the year, and the things I couldn’t. December also happens to be a very sad month – primarily because of the cold and the realization that another year is going to go by pretty soon. That’s another year [...]
The conversation X – I’m thinking of starting my own biz Y – Have you done all the market research..blah..blah.. X – I guess Y – What’s the plan X – Something like this…blah blah blah… Y – Holy s**t..this ain’t gonna work dude..this is pure stupidity…do you really not feel if this would have [...]
Seriously, I’ve been trying to get hold of this whole real-time buzz for the last 6 months (I have had some random experiments going on with iOS / Ruby) and this technology stack is by far the best I’ve used. Yeah..yeah…I know..there is Erlang or Python (with Tornado) or NodeJS which are better suited for [...]
A friend commented on a photo saying “where did you dig it out from ?”. The answer was a quick – “it’s always been here !!”. The photo in question was a photo back from the college days, when football was our religion. The photos are all available on facebook here. I guess being passionate [...]
When you are starting up / bootstrapping, you need to make sure you save up each and every penny on anything / everything, even if that means getting your hands dirty and doing things yourself. Most of the time, web applications need to be SMS-abled, viz..send and receive text messages, and while a lot of [...]
Just a quick post about the way live feed works in Facebook. Well, you see, a lot of my friends keep posting updates, which come and take up my whole of live feed, and more importantly these updates are mostly from third party apps and hence useless to me. So, I often hide a few [...]
I just finished setting up Nginx on my Slicehost VPS, and I can already feel the performance boost up. My weblog scores a cool little “A” on the YSLOW performance measurement score. Well, more than that, I can feel a sigh of relief that I am not using my swap memory anymore, plus the bonus [...]
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apache,
fast cgi,
Nginx,
php,
phusion passenger,
rails,
ruby
I can’t blog more than 100 words now…should see if I can port wordpress to TumblR or Posterous without losing rankings and google pagerank…
Facebook and freemium ??!!
I recently had a great opportunity to write something about startups at pluggd.in, and which I had to accept (I mean who lets such great opps to pass by :) ). So I wrote about some of the points that I realized one should ideally do a reality check about, before joining a startup. And [...]
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career,
employees,
startups,
working in startups