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Presentation on Starting Up
Here’s the presentation for the talk delivered to students (too young!) of AIS, Saket. Tried to make them familiar with Start-up phenomenon.
JVM Off-heap Caching Libraries
Here’s another gem from Snapdeal Engineering blog : analysis and comparison of different off-heap caching solutions and performs benchmarking for their use-c...
How to choose a NoSQL Database?
[Cross-posted on NextBigWhat.com]
2014
Computer Science – good free online learning resources
**MIT: ** http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/
git Primer : Quick Reference Guide
All Important Book:
2013
Facebook Auto-tagging and Happy New Year!
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!...
Remove .svn files recursively on linux
find . -type d -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
Introduction to Agile
Introduction to Agile Practices from cspag67
Rainbow: Gimme some sunshine give me some rain…
Give me some sunshine, Give me some rain Give me another chance, I wanna grow up again…
The Work-Gyan Balance for Bootstrapped Entrepreneurs
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 y...
Sales Tips for Indian Startups from #PNMeetup
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 I...
The 2013
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 continu...
2012
Track Multiple Domains and Use Multiple Google Analytics Accounts
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 u...
Facebook error message… really?
Whoops! I thought Facebook pays millions to Product Managers and Testers!
“Send Email” share Tweet feature now available for some accounts?
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...
JQuery Mobile App: Caching Pages in local Storage Seamlessly
jQuery Mobile. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There ain’t no sales guys!
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Minimum Viable Blog Posts
Blogs are to books what Agile SaaS products are to Enterprise Suites.
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 ...
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 ...
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 J...
Debian/Ubuntu Linux: Change Timezone to IST
Change timezone of Debian/Ubuntu machine to Asia/Kolkata or any other timezone
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.
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!
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, Twit...
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 thi...
Launching soon…
Launching Soon…
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 vers...
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 int...
Came across this brilliant stuff on how to get Press Coverage/PR for Startups @dharmesh
PR for Startups – Great article Onstartups
Guess the website and be a part of the SEO Experiment!
This post is in continuation to this post on the SEO experiment.
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 e...
Shortest Horror Story
On a beautiful cold winter day, he was enjoying hot shower closing his eyes as if cherishing the waterfall.
The year that was, a year that will be…
2011 – a year that was… splendid
2011
My Book Wishlist
A collection of must read books on computer science, technology, entrepreneurship, business, product design & strategy. My wishlist from flipkart: http:/...
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish
Steve Job’s Stanford Speech
Must-Read Books for Entrepreneurs & Technology Startups
Here is a list of must-read books for Technology startups and entrepreneurs (Not in any particular order).
Reference resources on NoSQL DB
NoSQL Databases and Comparisons Resources
Amazon’s Hidden Empire
Amazon.com: the Hidden Empire </p> View more presentations from faberNovel </p>
Photo Galleries – Picasa, Flickr, Facebook… yet a lot of vacuum
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 Ph...
failure
10 Things I Learned from Failure http://bit.ly/lk1TdF
Drafts, Drafts & Drafts…
Number of posts in my drafts section is at all time high! Need to finish off some quickly…
Freakonomics » The 100 Rules for Being an Entrepreneur
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/28/the-100-rules-for-being-an-entrepreneur/
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/04/twitter-drops-ruby-for-java.php
prashantparashar.com Appearance Improvements
I added few small appearance improvements to prashantparashar.com , hope people out there like it! Feedback is always most welcome!
Netflix Cloud Architecture
Here is an extremely useful presentation by Netflix on Netflix’ cloud architecture and why & how they moved to Cloud.
Scalability Thumb Rules for Programmers (2011)
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...
List of Useful Load Test Tools for Web Applications/Websites
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 commer...
Of Poonam Pandey, Dhoni and Anna Hazare …
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 ...
9 Features I am looking for in a Bookmarking website
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 rea...
Super Duper Cool Job Posting
Found this Job Posting really Super Duperrrrr Coooooooooooool !
Essential tools : Running and Monetizing a blog or website
Here is a list of essential and some important tools for running and Monetizing a website or your blog:
Reddit’s downtime!
So the Reddit was down for 6 hours.
Making of my blog (Get a website/blog cruising in minutes)!
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. T...
Nexus One gets Gingerbread (Android 2.3)
Finally, Google pushes Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) OTA (Over the Air) update to Nexus One!
;And comes the New Year Resolution
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:
Programming Android – online book
http://programming-android.labs.oreilly.com/
2010
Trying Rockmelt browser…
Downloaded the new Rockmelt browser aka Facebook browser… trying and experimenting with it’s new features #fb #in
Android Full App tutorial, Part 1: Main Activity UI
javacodegeeks: Android Full App tutorial, Part 1: Main Activity UI <a href=”http://goo.gl/fb/GMQa3″”>http://goo.gl/fb/GMQa3″</a>
XPath Evaluation in Java : Xalan XPath API vs Apache XmlBean
How to evaluate Xpath value for an XML in Java?
Automatically Tag MP3 Music Files
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. Whene...
Two Android Apps I was missing badly!
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:
Connecting small producers to global supply chain
http://shivsthirdeye.blogspot.com/2010/05/connecting-small-producers-to-global.html
Profiling and Diagnosing Java Application: Tools
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 ap...
Noida Extension Map
This Noida Extension Map is an indicative map and does not cover the entire area.
Essential Free Apps for Android/Nexus One
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 ap...
links for 2010-02-20
Delicious bookmarks 02/20