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", [...]
Its been very recent that I’m seriously looking into Javascript – and trust me, there is no dearth of stuff that can be achieved with purely client side code (HTML/CSS/JS). With the modern browsers churning out best of the breed in JS environments (both headed & headless), everything is going to come to a browser [...]
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 [...]
Get adomado.com funded! This year, there are no multitude of objectives, just this one. The more focus I have, the better I can deliver.
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 [...]
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 basically is – “HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container [...]
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 project ‘AdoMado – Your Rewards Bank [...]
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 us your Laptop and we will give you an Apple [...]
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 includes 5 sections: AdoMado Offers Apparel (2 coupons) Bakery and [...]