Since I have 6GB of RAM in my new laptop, I thought (while watching the first episode of Big Boss 5) that lets put it to some good use. Did some research & found out that I can actually create a small tmpfs partition from a portion of my extra RAM and use it to [...]
With this post, I am trying to start a new habit – of documenting tidbits about my trips with my wife (Kanika) to places worth remembering & sharing about. I hope, with this, I will also renew the long lost will to sit and write for my dear blog Gangtok Some quick facts about our [...]
Last night, my wife asked a very simple question… - ”In shell scripting, given a date, how can I subtract 5 hours from it?” The question was particularly interesting because the moment you think about any arithmetic on dates, you need to calculate the impact on all the other values. For example, subtracting 5 hours from [...]
The best way to understand MapReduce is to actually see & feel it in action. Following is the simplest possible example I could cook… (Gist link) var Job = { data : [ "We are glad to see you here. This site is dedicated to", [...]
Very recently, I had an opportunity to work on a completely client side Javascript App – a Facebook stream reader. Since FB Graph API returns JSON, it can be directly consumed via JSONP. This app used JQuery Mobile for the UI screens (which totally rocks btw!). I wanted to keep all the logic on the [...]
During the past year – working at AdoMado, I’ve seen myself & our developers wasting a lot of time in maintaining their own dev machines. Package install/upgrade/dependency failures, OS upgrade failures, hard drives failures, the machine not being available physically (in case of laptops), etc – are just a few cases. Can there be a more [...]
The past few years have been a complete roller-coaster ride! With each passing year – I was getting closer to my ultimate objective. 2007 – This was the time when SammyTammy, Sandy and I teamed up to kickstart our entrepreneurial stint with ApnaBill.com 2008 – We brought ApnaBill.com into existence. Jan 28 was when we hit the 400 mark for [...]
The offers that we run at AdoMado.com are of three basic types – Exclusive offers, Deal A Day aggregation and several more interesting offers sponsored by our partners. A few days back, I woke up to a terrific morning, only to notice that my inbox had several “downtime” alerts. I quickly checked and realized that [...]
Just because you can say something, should not mean you should say it. When you are in a relationship, don’t intentionally say something which can hurt the other person. But does that means you should not express yourself freely? – Well, no! There can be 10 different ways of conveying your point across. Though, fastest [...]
Why are we so afraid of doing things we love doing? Specially those which make you feel happy. Be it work, personal life, friends, or just anything. 3 years ago when I was at the brink of taking an important decision (personal and professional) – I read this article by Paul Grahams who went at [...]