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- Google IRC: Group Chat Rooms on Google
- Consumption versus Creation: Why I like the Padfone Tablet/Phone
- Fault Tolerance: When it segfaults…
- Real Time Scamming: Scammers exploit bin Laden news in search, Facebook
- Power Management vs Low Power Design: Watts the difference?
- DD-WRT Install: Pleasant Hacking
- What FIFA Soccer TV Can Learn From NBA
- Cloud Computing: The Wheel Makes a Circle
- Windows Media Center Remote Control on iPhone
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Author Archives: bond
Super Bowl XLII Winner: Corey Webster!
Imagine Eli Manning and the NY Giants missing the points on their last drive. Many (if not all) news bulletins would have carried the photo of Randy Moss hauling in the pass from Tom Brady while Corey Webster was spread … Continue reading
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Buying Customers: Microsoft and Yahoo is about no more Innovation?
Microsoft and Yahoo potential merger is being billed as the largest tech merger. When such large software companies merge, it worries me. There are many facets to the merger including markets, web presence, customers, communication tools, employees, work culture, among … Continue reading
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Playing It Inexpensive: At the Trailing Edge of Technology
I was LMAO ROFL (enjoying it immensely) when I saw the announcement of the Apple iPhone price cut to 399 all the way from 599 (or to 400 from 600 as your brain should really see it). Whatever be the … Continue reading
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Signalling on Rails: Tips on Exception Notifier
When you are developing rails apps and you are hacking your way around, it is fine to get a bunch of errors and screen dump of what went wrong. However, when you start deploying it and want to convince users … Continue reading
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Planting Trees: using railstree plugin in Ruby on Rails
I was looking for a quick way to build a hierarchical navigation tool in Ruby on Rails. There are good examples to build your own tree in Ruby when you use acts_as_tree and Single Table Inheritance etc., but nothing very … Continue reading
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Running Free on Rails: Displaying results of find_by_sql queries
When we construct views of query results using ERb in rails, most of the time we know what we are displaying and how to format it. However, there are a few occasions when we run find_by_sql queries. Even rare are … Continue reading
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Marc Andreesen refers to the www.softwareinterview.com website
It did not have the slashdot effect but Marc Andreesen linked to the http://www.softwareinterview.com website in his post on recruiting and the traffic jumped a few hundred visitors the next couple of days. I guess the site showed up in … Continue reading
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Ruby on Rails: Confessions of a Closet Coder
I have been dabbling with Ruby on Rails a little more lately. I have hacked around and figured out solutions for issues that stumped me based on posts from others or from experiments. I will try to catalog some of … Continue reading
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Social Bypass: Online Networking
I sometimes feel like I am living in a cave when I keep reading all the magazines and webzines about social networking sites. It is not that I am not online. I have a web presence, developed a website in … Continue reading
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What’s in a Name: What does Saarang mean
Like any new parents (Saarang is past his first birthday so new is a relative concept), we get the standard question: Saarang. Oh such a nice name! What does it mean? I don’t remember whether it was Srilatha or I … Continue reading
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