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If you have ever experienced this... ...you know how painful it is to debug and rectify. This error was so common that Microsoft created a knowledge base (KB927917) article for this. It even has a dedicated explanation at the IE Blog. The error...

First evening on the job and guess what, I spent it on going to Mandir Jee.  Suddenly I am getting very religious, though not sure why!! Maybe its more of uncertainty that I am forced to face. Ohh, don’t take me wrong, I very much believe in our latest...

Everyone who works at AdoMado puts in there 100%, so we decided to reward them by giving an Apple Laptop to each. Here’s the one that I got: My Apple Laptop - AdoMado LOLs…… So there is this new offer coming up from AdoMado, “Give...

At AdoMado, we are always trying to improve the skewed gender ration we have amongst our user base. As part of the same endeavor, we have introduced a special set of coupons available for redemption while keeping in  mind the needs of the ladies. This...

Hey everyone!! Last week we embarked on the next phase of AdoMado. In this phase we had planned to be more stable, integrated with more services, better offers with more discount coupons for our loyal users and a better paying ad network. Even though its...

Ever since we implemented content filtering mechanisms at AdoMado, our own site was being blocked - and this made me heck curious - why?? Today morning, using Rubular (which is an excellent online regex tool) - I discovered the culprit. And it...

Fatal - you don't have any automated test cases Recoverable - you have some sorts of test suite in place Best - you are already using unit/integration tests or have TDD/RSpec in place :) Without wasting words, I'd put you right to the Cucumber and...

Backups are worth in GOLD when you need them. I simply cannot stress on the fact that if you are running a production web application and you are not backing up your critical data - you are bound to shoot yourself in the foot - sooner or...

We had to answer this question yesterday when our EC2 instance stopped responding and was constantly showing 100% CPU load. SSH wasn't working and neither was apache responding. The CPU was hung at 100% load for a full day. Hence, we decided that a...