Category Archives: Technology

Denon AKDL1: Best Reviews Ever

Posted on August 12, 2009 by bond

I might not have searched and found this amazon review page if I was not working late and found a bugzilla quip that piqued my interest. But, this was the most reading fun I have had in a while: Denon … Continue reading →

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To Tweet or Not To: @What I Follow

Posted on April 30, 2009 by bond

Is it cool to be on twitter? I end up reading about facebook and Twitter more than I need to for social or work reasons. However, it will surprising to know that is more for intellectual curiosity for the underlying … Continue reading →

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Buying Customers: Microsoft and Yahoo is about no more Innovation?

Posted on February 1, 2008 by bond

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

Posted on September 5, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on July 28, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on July 14, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on June 19, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on June 19, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on June 3, 2007 by bond

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

Posted on October 15, 2006 by bond

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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