Minimum Viable Blog Posts
Blogs are to books what Agile SaaS products are to Enterprise Suites. [Read more]
Is Timesdeal leak story a marketing super-shot?
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]
Tomcat – Sharing of Session Cookies across Subdomains
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]
Awesome Spring – Superlike @Cacheable @Async and @Scheduled
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]
Debian/Ubuntu Linux: Change Timezone to IST
Change timezone of Debian/Ubuntu machine to Asia/Kolkata or any other timezone [Read more]
How To: Drop, Backup and Restore a MongoDB database
A quick note to self and other alike on how to drop a database, backup a database and restore a database in MongoDB. [Read more]
How to Build A Large And Scalable ECommerce Platform
Nice article on Pluggd.in by Amitabh Mishra, VP Snapdeal providing insights into large scale ecommerce system! [Read more]
Nice infographic on how to sell online
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]
Another Facebook Ad pleading for click?
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]
Launching soon…
Launching Soon… [Read more]
Removing JSESSIONID from URLs for Spring Security 3.0+ applications
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]
A day with Indian e-commerce for my Inbox
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]
Came across this brilliant stuff on how to get Press Coverage/PR for Startups @dharmesh
PR for Startups – Great article Onstartups [Read more]
Guess the website and be a part of the SEO Experiment!
This post is in continuation to this post on the SEO experiment. [Read more]
SEO… huh? An Experiment with SEO
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]
Shortest Horror Story
On a beautiful cold winter day, he was enjoying hot shower closing his eyes as if cherishing the waterfall. [Read more]
The year that was, a year that will be…
2011 – a year that was… splendid [Read more]