A passionate programmer, software architect, and a enthusiastic observer of internet technologies and usage. Having worked in a variety of roles, the essential passion that drives me is that of a Programmer. Architecture and Design issues excite me, Solving problems through programming is what I crave. C++, Java and Python I am quite competent at, Python being the most exciting. A number of other languages I experiment with.

Archive for October, 2009


Tweets for 2009-10-13

Both CouchDB and Riak are written in Erlang, and have restful support for JSON over HTTP. Coincidence ? Probably just sound choices. #
An advice I offered today – select and learn the right programming language for the job, not for the job opportunities. (corrected tweet) #
@davetron5000 LOL! Thats a wonderful term I heard for the [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-10

RT @debasishg: RT @gafter RT @patentlyfalse: Emboldened By Nobel Prize, US President Obama Re-Opens Discussion On Bringing Closures To Java #
To restore a healthy dose of humour to my twitter feed, I just followed @patentlyfalse #
RT: @patentlyfalse Borders Offers Free Roll Of Duct-Tape With Every PHP Book – http://is.gd/3KIVm #duct tape #
Dobbs Code [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-08

Hmm .. a good sense of humour. A new distributed computing paradigm: ULSER http://ff.im/-9qhjV #
Interesting contents : Udi Dahan : SOA & DDD course in Austin http://ff.im/-9qiUk #
Programming paradigms for dummies : What every programmer should know (PDF) http://bit.ly/uI5Zm #

Tweets for 2009-10-07

@kshashi @nikhl @pallavikel but the examples had no bit math at all – only required a mult by -1 bit math complicates it unnecessarily in reply to kshashi #
@psnively tried hard to figure out why but failed .. so could help describe why ? @debasishg in reply to psnively #
@sallamar @mamund @mike__kelly I [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-06

The Cambrian Period of Concurrency http://ff.im/-9ikTo #
Paulo Caroli: The Agile manager is a master programmer http://ff.im/-9ikTI #
VeriScale Architecture: Elasticity and Efficiency for Private Clouds by Sun (reg reqd) http://ff.im/-9im8o #
Haskell: The Confusing Parts http://ff.im/-9imvx #
Wonderful writeup +1: Unit testing in Coders at Work http://ff.im/-9imU4 #
Most certainly automated testing improves reliability. The question isn't if automated [...]

Configuring a secure Ubuntu Linux Virtual Private Server

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Configuring a secure Ubuntu Linux Virtual Private Server

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Tweets for 2009-10-05

@kshashi @debasishg Tx 4 suggstns. I autoshare reader shared into friendfeed into twitter. Looking 4 auto feed to twitter handle mapping in reply to debasishg #
Yahoo group rest-discuss is the definitive group to follow for REST http://bit.ly/bCbgq Good recent discussions on app-state/txns #
RT @debasishg: Blogged : Pluggable Persistent Transactors with #Akka .. http://is.gd/3XJlt [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-04

@wmartinez I did refer to the discussion around it yes. in reply to wmartinez #
RT @pk11: Scala is my next choice http://bit.ly/6t2SY #
RT @markhneedham: thoughts on coding rules of thumb http://bit.ly/JtNvc #
Sometimes when I like a post on google reader, I locate author's twitter id & his tweet on the topic and then RT it. [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-03

Alex Payne — Taking On a New Challenge At Twitter http://ff.im/-98Y5e #
@asplake here's what I did – associate one more tag "all_but_readtwit" 2 all other feeds. That way I can selectively ignore readtwit in reply to asplake #
5 Game-Changing Project Management Tools http://ff.im/-99Hrt #

Tweets for 2009-10-02

Recommended Read: Red Hat asks the Supreme Court to Address the Problem of Software Patents http://ff.im/-963B8 #
Cost of Testing http://ff.im/-97m8B #
Bliss (n) : When clean abstractions work well together #
Just had a thought around handling REST and transactions a little differently. Will need to think through (though may not pan out well) #
@wmartinez Sorry, I misstated [...]

Tweets for 2009-10-01

RT: @chadmyers Somehow I don't think that most other professional fields are arguing whether "duct tape [profession]" are better or not #
RT @nkhalasi: Sharding as a Scalability Strategy – http://bit.ly/wn1tR #
(Repeat Tweet) New Blog Post : Service oriented REST architecture is an oxymoron http://bit.ly/K9I75 #
RT @kohlerm: ACID vs BASE 2 essential links: http://bit.ly/jAZBC http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1466448 #scalabilty [...]

Service oriented REST architecture is an oxymoron

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The best amount of polyglotism is that you can manage successfully

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Mind your language: Pragmatic programmers should not be re-termed duct tape programmers

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Service oriented REST architecture is an oxymoron

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