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 March, 2010


Tweets for 2010-03-30

@offbytwo he he, every once in a while I do end up putting a semicolon or two as well. in reply to offbytwo #

Tweets for 2010-03-29

@wmartinez to the contrary, The post raised good points but trivialised any sense of balance (it didn't talk of the dev responsibilities) in reply to wmartinez #

links for 2010-03-28

Elegant Code » An Address on the Craft
An Address on the Craft http://ff.im/-ihGWO
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pwnat – NAT to NAT client-server communication
Smart. Very smart. NAT to NAT client-server communication http://ff.im/-ihGso
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Not so sure that I agree => How to Manage Programmers http://ff.im/-ihFRG
Not so sure that I agree => How to Manage Programmers http://ff.im/-ihFRG
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Tweets for 2010-03-28

@sirtajkang sure .. but I wasn't thinking of making the "entire system" consistent – just of making subsets/shards consistent in reply to sirtajkang #
@sirtajkang think of an organisation as a set of people – each person is consistent in himself and the queues are the infochannels in reply to sirtajkang #
A successful Git branching model [...]

links for 2010-03-27

How I made Street Hoarding, a Node.js and Redis application, or, a super simple explanation of asynchronicity, event loops, non-blocking IO, JavaScript and Node at maryrosecook
How I made Street Hoarding, a Node.js and Redis application http://ff.im/-ibkWK
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Modeling operations in REST « Bill the Plumber
Interesting read: Modeling operations in REST http://ff.im/-ibkkq
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Inline commit notes – GitHub
Nice! [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-27

@IamSB my very best wishes for a fast recovery. in reply to IamSB #

links for 2010-03-26

Modeling operations in REST « Bill the Plumber
Interesting read: Modeling operations in REST http://ff.im/-ibkkq
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Inline commit notes – GitHub
Nice! Inline commit notes on GitHub http://ff.im/-ibk36
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NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames begin! – stu.mp
This is a good comparison of apples and (umm.. I really have no clue). NoSQL vs. RDBMS: Let the flames [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-26

Not quite sure whats the implication of Negative Cache TTL is. Wikimedia DNS outage. http://is.gd/aZEiJ – need to study more. #
UDDI R.I.P. – Stefan Tilkov's Random Stuff http://ff.im/-i8KiB #
#marathi #humour #ipl Need to be a punekar and read & understand marathi to make sense of this, but its way too hilarious http://is.gd/aZN7u #
The Onion Uses [...]

links for 2010-03-25

Welcome to HgEclipse
On a first look the Mercurial plugin for Eclipse is really nice : http://javaforge.com/project/HGE
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Bug #1 in Ubuntu: “Microsoft has a majority market share”
Ubuntu has a 6 year old bug and it still hasn't been fixed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 via @cbeust. #humour
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Why java is not a dead language | /var/log/mind
@codemonkeyism Java is too [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-25

Ubuntu has a 6 year old bug and it still hasn't been fixed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 via @cbeust. #humour #
@mamund what would you think would be a better term ? in reply to mamund #
@pkeane ahh .. but thats like saying HTML when you actually mean XHTML it understates the focus /cc @mamund in reply [...]

links for 2010-03-24

Beware of "Imagine if…" – (37signals)
Beware of "Imagine if…" http://ff.im/-i3cEX
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The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained – good coders code, great reuse
This is just way too good : Top 20 oneliners from commandlinefu http://is.gd/aX2j3 and http://is.gd/aX2lC
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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained – good coders code, great reuse
This is just way too good : [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-24

Joe Stump on data, APIs, and why location is up for grabs – O'Reilly Radar http://ff.im/-i0zXB #
The @verisign office in India is a joke. They are unreachable. No seriously .. small mom/pop shops are perhaps better run. #
Reminds me of stored procs RT @talios With all these MapReduce jobs running "inside the database" – are [...]

links for 2010-03-23

Computer Company Started In Garage 30 Years Ago Now In Smaller Garage | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
Another one from @TheOnion Computer Company Started In Garage 30 Years Ago Now In Smaller Garage http://is.gd/aUHgK #humour
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dnene / pyterrastore / overview — bitbucket.org
pyterrastore is at http://bitbucket.org/dnene/pyterrastore/ test http://bitbucket.org/dnene/pyterrastore/src/tip/test/pyterrastore/tests.py
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Tweets for 2010-03-23

Announcing pybuckets: library 2 use cloud storage services (S3/Rackspace Cloudfiles/..) http://dnene.bitbucket.org/docs/pybuckets/index.html #
Also published a python client to terrastore pyterrastore (a little more docs reqd) http://dnene.bitbucket.org/docs/pyterrastore/index.html #
pyterrastore is at http://bitbucket.org/dnene/pyterrastore/ test http://bitbucket.org/dnene/pyterrastore/src/tip/test/pyterrastore/tests.py #
@obie enjoyed meeting up, also learnt a lot especially from your opinions on pair programming. #
LOL! RT: @TheOnion TheOnion.com has migrated to Django. If [...]

links for 2010-03-22

Five Pervasive Myths About Older Software Developers | Lessons of Failure
RT: @wmartinez Yep. I'm approaching 40. Five Pervasive Myths About Older Software Developers. http://bit.ly/dgGkNp
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Ruminations of a Programmer: Thinking Asynchronous – Domain Modeling using Akka Transactors – Part 1
Thinking Asynchronous – Domain Modeling using Akka Transactors – Part 1 by @debasishg http://ff.im/-hUVgr
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Richardson Maturity Model
Richardson [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-22

Google buzz sorely needs a "blockquote" formatting feature. #
@offbytwo I more than suspect many are looking for much more eg. running, debugging, code_completion etc. in reply to offbytwo #
@offbytwo oh! for me vim + terminal is good enough. But many prefer full IDEs and thats another 'customer' with a different needs in reply [...]

Tweets for 2010-03-21

@kaleidic I'm with you. After earlier focus on brevity, i now think brevity is simply a doorway to clarity, too brief and the door gets shut in reply to kaleidic #
@olabini I agree but it means trading short term productivity 4 longer term productivity/capability which is not always preferred by others in reply to olabini [...]

links for 2010-03-20

Double whammy. The state and dilemma of Indian IT
Strange .. my one blog post on Indian IT got posted on @dzone – twice! http://is.gd/aPNJf and http://is.gd/aPNK8
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Double whammy. The state and dilemma of Indian IT
Strange .. my one blog post on Indian IT got posted on @dzone – twice! http://is.gd/aPNJf and http://is.gd/aPNK8
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Tweets for 2010-03-20

Strange .. my one blog post on Indian IT got posted on @dzone – twice! http://is.gd/aPNJf and http://is.gd/aPNK8 #

links for 2010-03-19

libcloud python library – a unified interface to cloud server providers
@dnene For you python guys, libcloud may be interesting too: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/index.html
– Sergio Bossa (sbtourist) http://twitter.com/sbtourist/statuses/10717908024
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jclouds – Project Hosting on Google Code
@dnene Did you look at JClouds? http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/
– Sergio Bossa (sbtourist) http://twitter.com/sbtourist/statuses/10717852135
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@psnively @djspiewak I suspect http://is.gd/aNPhN maybe good for games but [...]