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So what is an {ab}normal day like?

Considering that I am more of a night person, my day starts at 9pm 9pm – Back from office 10pm – dinner 11pm – Start work on ApnaBill.com – pack a solid 3 hours of work – feature/bug fixes. 3am – Plan to watch a movie – search Rama’s collection. 5am – Yawwn! Lets sleep [...]

Meeting Entrip.com guys…

The day was very hectic… was up @ 10 AM, saw “Horton hears a who” @ 11 AM, had a quick breakfast @ 1PM, started for LCG meeting @ 3PM and then finally met the Entrip.com guys at 6PM – all as I planned yesternight …and by now I am dead tired – just enough [...]

Back to the basics – validating HTML anyone?

Its almost 4 AM now & past 3 hours saw a lot of commits going into ApnaBill.com code. After realizing that we were not generating (X)HTML code, the effort was targeted at containment, if not eradication Many thanks to Zundra for pointing this out to me. Due to an open div tag, the new (& [...]

Newton’s laws of motion for Startups!

A quick refresher on Newton’s laws of motion “An object will stay at rest or continue at a constant velocity unless acted upon by an external unbalanced force” “The net force on an object is equal to the mass of the object multiplied by its acceleration” “Every action has an equal and opposite reaction” Yesterday, [...]

Do you feel that kick?

The only other time I felt this big a kick… was when I first wore Red Hat‘s shirt! You had to be in that moment to feel the kick as I felt it! Apparel printed at Rottees

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A quickie on ApnaBill.com

[slideshare id=340157&doc=apnabillquickieoo-1207574025805558-9&w=425] Just in case, if you havn’t registered on ApnaBill.com – try it out today! Beta signups are still open

Migrating ApnaBill.com to SqlSessionStore

Rails2′s client side sessions were starting to give us troubles as we were ‘kinda’ overshooting the 4kb limit almost every now and then. Idealists would say that thats a bad practice – and I agree – but the changes now run too deep to fix them, withought having to change/throw a lot of code. It [...]

Startup Lunch – This Friday!

Ever experienced Speed Dating? As finding friends/partners is to Speed Dating, finding investors/future-employees is to Startup Lunch. Startup Lunch is an initiative on the lines of (and by) Proto.in and in concept, is very similar to speed dating. The startup founders are seated on one side and the candidates get to say hello and have [...]

YSlow ApnaBill.com ?

We just finished porting ApnaBill.com from Rails 1.2.5 to Rails 2.0.2 – the port wasn’t that tough, specially with Ben’s Rails2 Upgrade Notes on SlashDotDash. The steps we took… Make your config file reflect the new rails version (make sure you have it installed) Move all instances of start_form_tag to form_tag Change find_all to find(:all)… [...]