We, the motley crew from Impiger (Ashok, Abi, Ram, Priya, Umaima and myself) just returned from AWS Chennai meetup. It was a great evening and we were able to hear what’s new in AWS from Jinesh Varia, the evangelist from Amazon. One of the highlights of the event was the demos. The coolest, imho was…
Seen on the tagline of Slashdot user eldavojohn Can god code something so unusable even he can’t use it? No, but I can and so can you: http://www.microsoft.com/careers *lol*
I have written about this earlier. Now here we go again. It’s about Twitter having problems scaling.
I usually take a nap Sunday afternoons, and I like to hear some streaming radio during that time. I wanted something that would fade the volume down to 0 after a certain period of time (say half hour). I decided to give it a shot myself. It’s Tcl and Snack to the rescue! After twiddling…
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Today I got my first speeding ticket, after 10+ years of driving. I clocked a paltry 68kmph, when according to the traffic police, the limit is 50kmph. This was on the Rajiv Gandhi Salai (near Tidel Park), one of the best roads in Chennai, during a lazy mid-holiday-morning, when there was no other vehicle on…
I was checking out the news article about American canceling 850 flights, when this paragraph struck me: “Bishop Bernard Jordan, a Harlem minister, was in a first-class line trying to catch a flight to Atlanta, where he was scheduled to preach Wednesday night”. Contrast this to what Jesus said to his disciples in Luke 9:3…
I have blogged about YSlow, a very nice tool from Yahoo, that gives performance indicators of your web page. Guess what? I ran it on their own page (http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/) and found that they got 3 F’s, 1 C and 1 B. Overall score was a D (62/100). A case of not practising what you preach?…
First google maps (earth) – http://maps.google.com, released February 8 2005, Then google moon – http://www.google.com/moon/, released July 2005, Then google mars – http://www.google.com/mars/, released March 12, 2006, Now google sky! http://www.google.com/sky/, released Today Check it out!
Ever since I started dabbling with Ext a few months back, I’m addicted to it. Ext 2.0 has wonderful API documentation, but there are many hidden treasures that are not apparent. I will start capturing some of these starting from this post. Toolbar Tips To create a separator between items, use ‘-‘ between the items.…