Posted on August 1, 2008, 4:51 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Pushing ApnaBill.com into a Zarro Boogs state suddenly gave me the much needed time to start tinkering with other things in the roadmap. Hence the next obvious destination for me was OpenSocial – about which I’ve been hearing for quite some time now, almost everyone I know is writing some sort of social apps (FaceBook [...]
Posted on July 31, 2008, 11:22 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
This is the sweetest possible message Bugzilla can ever show a developer Tonight, I’ll be syncing live ApnaBill.com with the most stable version we ever had – the operations are still getting formalized but the code-base looks awesome! If you come across any bug @ ApnaBill.com, feel free to ping us at our support channel [...]
Posted on July 21, 2008, 6:04 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
The atmosphere was electrifying at Proto4 – and the talks were doing everything to make the conference even more interesting! The presenting startups didn’t got much time to attend the conference talks – we were quickly rushed for the rehersals which were to prepare us for the upcoming showcase on 2nd day of the event. [...]
Posted on May 30, 2008, 3:00 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
The current week is just halfway through, but it has already been one of the most eventful week for ApnaBill.com – with some definite advances towards the release. We’ll be launching the live pilot mode release in just days time. More good news – we’ve expanded our network coverage from a handful of operators/cities to [...]
Posted on May 10, 2008, 7:52 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
As we speak, CSS goodieness is oozing out of ApnaBill.com developer codebase. I just wish if I could paste some screenshots of our work here… Anyways – that time would come!
Posted on April 24, 2008, 3:13 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
Introducing – LITBox Helper for Rails! Disclaimer: This is a work in progress and is available on “as is” basis. For long, I was trying to integrate Criag Ambros’s RedBox plugin into ApnaBill.com project for implementing modal dialogs but somehow, the CSS always used to get upset, rendering the lightbox in such a way that [...]
Posted on April 19, 2008, 9:52 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
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 [...]
Posted on April 19, 2008, 3:22 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
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 (& [...]
Posted on April 5, 2008, 1:49 am, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
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 [...]
Posted on April 1, 2008, 3:18 pm, by Mayank Jain (makuchaku).
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 [...]