Here’s another gem from Snapdeal Engineering blog : analysis and comparison of different off-heap caching solutions and performs benchmarking for their use-case. The Blog post describes benchmarking & analysis of concurrent hashmap (... [Read more]
find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \; [Read more]
Introduction to Agile Practices from cspag67 [Read more]
Whoops! I thought Facebook pays millions to Product Managers and Testers! [Read more]
Since I have multiple microsites i.e. subdomains on touchsy.com , I needed a way for users to be logged-in to one subdomain and then access other subdomains without having to login again. I found out that it is fairly easy to achieve it ... [Read more]
Change timezone of Debian/Ubuntu machine to Asia/Kolkata or any other timezone [Read more]
Nice article on Pluggd.in by Amitabh Mishra, VP Snapdeal providing insights into large scale ecommerce system! [Read more]
Launching Soon… [Read more]
jsessionid in URLs look annoying, more so in search results. Disabling them from URL is just a configuration in your spring-security.xml file for Spring version 3.0 + : use the disable-url-rewriting=”true” in the security namespace for h... [Read more]
PR for Startups – Great article Onstartups [Read more]
On a beautiful cold winter day, he was enjoying hot shower closing his eyes as if cherishing the waterfall. [Read more]
Steve Job’s Stanford Speech [Read more]
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire </p> View more presentations from faberNovel </p> [Read more]
10 Things I Learned from Failure http://bit.ly/lk1TdF [Read more]
Number of posts in my drafts section is at all time high! Need to finish off some quickly… [Read more]
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/28/the-100-rules-for-being-an-entrepreneur/ [Read more]
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php [Read more]
I added few small appearance improvements to prashantparashar.com , hope people out there like it! Feedback is always most welcome! [Read more]
Found this Job Posting really Super Duperrrrr Coooooooooooool ! [Read more]
http://programming-android.labs.oreilly.com/ [Read more]
Downloaded the new Rockmelt browser aka Facebook browser… trying and experimenting with it’s new features #fb #in [Read more]
javacodegeeks: Android Full App tutorial, Part 1: Main Activity UI <a href=”http://goo.gl/fb/GMQa3″”>http://goo.gl/fb/GMQa3″</a> [Read more]
http://shivsthirdeye.blogspot.com/2010/05/connecting-small-producers-to-global.html [Read more]
Delicious bookmarks 02/20 [Read more]
This is an overview of very basic pandas functions by using notebook below. One can get a basic understanding of pandas and then can move ahead to more advanced courses. The Python notebook is available here. [Read more]
[Cross-posted on NextBigWhat.com] [Read more]
**MIT: ** http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ [Read more]
jQuery Mobile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Read more]
Tracking multiple domains on the same google Analytics is not a big deal but is a little tricky. If you haven’t checked all the boxes, you might not get it up and running. Here are the basic steps to track multiple websites. [Read more]
jQuery Mobile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Read more]
Nice article on Pluggd.in by Amitabh Mishra, VP Snapdeal providing insights into large scale ecommerce system! [Read more]
This post is in continuation to this post on the SEO experiment. [Read more]
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) was never my cup of tea so I thought why not try a bit? I was amazed to see the power of SEO in bringing huge (huge for an experiment) traffic. [Read more]
There are lot of Photo Gallery services available but all of them have something missing – a big feature or important frills . Already coming from a Yahoo Photos heartbreak, I decided to do some research on features provided by these gal... [Read more]
Here is an extremely useful presentation by Netflix on Netflix’ cloud architecture and why & how they moved to Cloud. [Read more]
In our cricket crazy country, craziest of the things happen. When the cricket is at its peek, some non-cricketing celebrity (read Poonam Pandey) becomes the talk of the nation and is on Internet everywhere. Don’t know if those searching ... [Read more]
Here is a list of essential and some important tools for running and Monetizing a website or your blog: [Read more]
Well, when I was offered a free domain while upgrading my web hosting account, I really did not have anything in particular in mind and booked this domain. Though it was not a lot of effort to setup my own blog on the domain, most of th... [Read more]
How many times in last 10 years I have to write code to cache things locally or in distributed cache? How many times did I write code to make heavy-lifting Java methods asynchronous? [Read more]
jsessionid in URLs look annoying, more so in search results. Disabling them from URL is just a configuration in your spring-security.xml file for Spring version 3.0 + : use the disable-url-rewriting=”true” in the security namespace for h... [Read more]
Continuing with the trend of past years – 2011 & 2012, here come new year resolutions for the year 2013. As the grind and excitement of year 2012 continues, it is going to be “the” year: [Read more]
Launching Soon… [Read more]
2011 – a year that was… splendid [Read more]
A collection of must read books on computer science, technology, entrepreneurship, business, product design & strategy. My wishlist from flipkart: http://www.flipkart.com/wishlist/prashantp [Read more]
Steve Job’s Stanford Speech [Read more]
Well, it’s never too late! I, at least, had a resolution not to have the same resolutions this year again. So here goes the list. I would: [Read more]
This Noida Extension Map is an indicative map and does not cover the entire area. [Read more]
Finally, Google pushes Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OTA (Over the Air) update to Nexus One! [Read more]
Finally the two apps that were around the top of my wish-list for android are available. Not fully but at least for now it is a BIG relief: [Read more]
After exploring my Google Nexus One phone based on Android, I could zero-in to these super-essential android apps available free in android market. These apps complete your new Nexus one/Andoid phone: [Read more]
Tracking multiple domains on the same google Analytics is not a big deal but is a little tricky. If you haven’t checked all the boxes, you might not get it up and running. Here are the basic steps to track multiple websites. [Read more]
Just read a story about the Timesdeal Coupon leak here and followed by a quick update from timesdeal that they would honor all deals. The problem apparently was with some internal coupon that got leaked out on the Internet. [Read more]
Nice amusing inforgraphic on what, why and where to sell your online products! Covers, rather funnily all online destinations including Craiglist, Etsy, Twitter, Adwords, Amazon and many more… Quite creative! [Read more]
Spotted one Facebook ad from some Internet company. This is amusing. Can we be plain arbitrary or even mischievous to get better CTR for Facebook Ads? Is this probably why there is so much being said about Facebook Ads lately? [Read more]
My Inbox goes for a treat with India e-commerce everyday and here is a typical day with all these e-commerce deals and dealmakers! (personal mails masked intentionally in the picture. Oh yes, I do get personal mails) [Read more]
Avoid Synchronization. Keep it short. Use lock-free data structures and those in java.util.concurrent.atomic Use Non-Blocking I/O java.nio package for high-scalability. Use only for very high throughput applications. Single thre... [Read more]
Avoid Synchronization. Keep it short. Use lock-free data structures and those in java.util.concurrent.atomic Use Non-Blocking I/O java.nio package for high-scalability. Use only for very high throughput applications. Single thre... [Read more]
[Cross-posted on NextBigWhat.com] [Read more]
NoSQL Databases and Comparisons Resources [Read more]
Here is an extremely useful presentation by Netflix on Netflix’ cloud architecture and why & how they moved to Cloud. [Read more]
So the Reddit was down for 6 hours. [Read more]
Here’s the presentation for the talk delivered to students (too young!) of AIS, Saket. Tried to make them familiar with Start-up phenomenon. [Read more]
A lot has been written about work-life balance. However, another balance that an entrepreneur needs to keep is the “work-gyan balance“. As an entrepreneur your primary goal is to get shit done – the work; and the secondary is to remain ... [Read more]
Here’s the collection of sales tips for Indian startups from the wonderful #PNMeetup session on Saturday (19-Jan) by productnation. Most tips would be for Indian market and B2B in general but might have a correlation to general sales as... [Read more]
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Read more]
A collection of must read books on computer science, technology, entrepreneurship, business, product design & strategy. My wishlist from flipkart: http://www.flipkart.com/wishlist/prashantp [Read more]
Here is a list of must-read books for Technology startups and entrepreneurs (Not in any particular order). [Read more]
All Important Book: [Read more]
jQuery Mobile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) [Read more]
Since I have multiple microsites i.e. subdomains on touchsy.com , I needed a way for users to be logged-in to one subdomain and then access other subdomains without having to login again. I found out that it is fairly easy to achieve it ... [Read more]
Here is a list of some useful Load Testing tools for websites. I tried to keep the list limited to non-commercial/community-driven tools, however some commercial ones might have sneaked through. [Read more]
More often than not at some point of development, and hopefully before production :-), the applications needs to be tuned for performance. For a java/j2ee application the one of the first tasks of performance tuning should include profil... [Read more]
Over last couple of years I added bunch of links to useful resources on current technology on a wide variety of topics that include Machine Learning, Statistics, Probability, Mathematics, Arduino, Distributed systems and many more. A goo... [Read more]
Posted some images last week on Facebook and it suggested to tag some friends in those pictures… and, Facebook was damn accurate in recognizing those people! I was like…wow! WTF! The future flashed right in. [Read more]
A lot has been written about work-life balance. However, another balance that an entrepreneur needs to keep is the “work-gyan balance“. As an entrepreneur your primary goal is to get shit done – the work; and the secondary is to remain ... [Read more]
Just now spotted a new link “more…” on a tweet with option “Send Email” to share the tweet with others. Well this was reported earlier by twitter but was not available to everyone! It is still being rolled out to some users only, I guess. [Read more]
Blogs are to books what Agile SaaS products are to Enterprise Suites. [Read more]
Just read a story about the Timesdeal Coupon leak here and followed by a quick update from timesdeal that they would honor all deals. The problem apparently was with some internal coupon that got leaked out on the Internet. [Read more]
Spotted one Facebook ad from some Internet company. This is amusing. Can we be plain arbitrary or even mischievous to get better CTR for Facebook Ads? Is this probably why there is so much being said about Facebook Ads lately? [Read more]
My Inbox goes for a treat with India e-commerce everyday and here is a typical day with all these e-commerce deals and dealmakers! (personal mails masked intentionally in the picture. Oh yes, I do get personal mails) [Read more]
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire </p> View more presentations from faberNovel </p> [Read more]
There are lot of Photo Gallery services available but all of them have something missing – a big feature or important frills . Already coming from a Yahoo Photos heartbreak, I decided to do some research on features provided by these gal... [Read more]
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php [Read more]
In our cricket crazy country, craziest of the things happen. When the cricket is at its peek, some non-cricketing celebrity (read Poonam Pandey) becomes the talk of the nation and is on Internet everywhere. Don’t know if those searching ... [Read more]
Since biggies (Yahoo! Google) of the world keep shutting shops on their not-so-profitable businesses, users are left with no option but to move around or really keep moving from one service to another. Remember when Yahoo Photos closed i... [Read more]
So the Reddit was down for 6 hours. [Read more]
Finally the two apps that were around the top of my wish-list for android are available. Not fully but at least for now it is a BIG relief: [Read more]
After exploring my Google Nexus One phone based on Android, I could zero-in to these super-essential android apps available free in android market. These apps complete your new Nexus one/Andoid phone: [Read more]
Building microservices for highly scalable applications. [Read more]
Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain Give me another chance, I wanna grow up again… [Read more]
On a beautiful cold winter day, he was enjoying hot shower closing his eyes as if cherishing the waterfall. [Read more]
I have huge collection of music files : around 25% of them not recognizable by their file names or mp3 tags and around 10% of songs probably duplicate. Whenever I wanted to listen my own collection of songs, I ended up wasting all my tim... [Read more]