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 April, 2010


links for 2010-04-29

Denver Nuggets center Nene undergiong tests on injured left knee amid concerns of torn ACL – ESPN
@dnene your relative? RT @espn Denver Nuggets center Nene undergiong tests on injured left knee ….. – http://tinyurl.com/2efmygq
– Amit Paranjape (aparanjape) http://twitter.com/aparanjape/statuses/13081552828
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Tweets for 2010-04-29

@rickasaurus not sure what plugin you're using, but I found this one quite useful http://bit.ly/ePwaM in reply to rickasaurus #

links for 2010-04-23

Skills Matter : Cloud & Grid eXchange 2010: Alexis Richardso
RT @debasishg: Use cases for cloud messaging @skillsmatter by @monadic http://bit.ly/axC6Ci
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EdgeRank: The Secret Sauce That Makes Facebook’s News Feed Tick
RT @igrigorik: hmm, facebooks news feed algo is simple.. but non trivial at scale. completely personalized: http://tcrn.ch/dxpJWC
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links for 2010-04-22

Wide Awake Developers: Failover: Messy Realities
RT: @sbtourist Very valuable real world considerations: @mtnygard on failover in distributed systems http://bit.ly/d6xyDc
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Prof. Jayanth R. Varma’s Financial Markets Blog
Great to see a professor I studied under writing a blog http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/
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The SEC and the Python « Prof. Jayanth R. Varma’s Financial Markets Blog
@kshashi Its more than just data. [...]

Tweets for 2010-04-22

@kshashi Its more than just data. One of my prof's wrote a blog post on it http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/the-sec-and-the-python/ in reply to kshashi #
Great to see a professor (a stalwart academic in Finance in India) I studied under writing a blog http://jrvarma.wordpress.com/ #
RT: @sbtourist Very valuable real world considerations: @mtnygard on failover in distributed systems http://bit.ly/d6xyDc #
@sbtourist [...]

links for 2010-04-21

Not April 1. SEC proposes to move to XML (Asset Info) / Python (Cash Flow Provisions) from English (End of page 1) http://is.gd/bCsDW PDF :S
Not April 1. SEC proposes to move to XML (Asset Info) / Python (Cash Flow Provisions) from English (End of page 1) http://is.gd/bCsDW PDF :S
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Tweets for 2010-04-21

Not April 1. SEC proposes to move to XML (Asset Info) / Python (Cash Flow Provisions) from English (End of page 1) http://is.gd/bCsDW PDF :S #
Wondering if complexity will force computer languages to replace English as the basis for legalese re: last tweet – Python in SEC filings #
RT: @sallamar On the blog – Uncomplicated [...]

Double whammy. The state and dilemma of Indian IT

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Functional Programming with Python – Part 2 – Useful python constructs

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Functional Programming with Python – Part 1

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Google Buzz Test Drive Report

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links for 2010-04-14

Google Moderator
Interesting. Not sure how long it has been around. But http://www.google.com/moderator/ helps you get inputs from lots of people.
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YouTube – TEDtalksDirector's Channel
The emotion behind invention (video) http://is.gd/broLS Deeply moving. I'm sure we can use IT to help people rather than just make profits.
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Tweets for 2010-04-14

Interesting. Not sure how long it has been around. But http://www.google.com/moderator/ helps you get inputs from lots of people. #
@mike_acton hmm, kind of strange for a google service to be not widely known in reply to mike_acton #
@mike_acton Interesting you ask, even though I don't use it much, Orkut is big in India. [...]

links for 2010-04-13

A Dismal Guide to Concurrency | Facebook
Facebook | A Dismal Guide to Concurrency http://ff.im/-iYmB1
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High Scalability – High Scalability – Poppen.de Architecture
RT @sbtourist: RT @griggheo Nice write-up on poppen.de system architecture: http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/4/12/poppende-architect …
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Tweets for 2010-04-13

Finishing off a little busy period .. hopefully should be able to tweet n blog more now. #
Facebook | A Dismal Guide to Concurrency http://ff.im/-iYmB1 #
@sallamar hmm.. thats counterintuitive. What am I missing ? in reply to sallamar #
The emotion behind invention (video) http://is.gd/broLS Deeply moving. I'm sure we can use IT to help people [...]

links for 2010-04-12

Has Steve Jobs gone mad? – Apple 2.0 – Fortune Brainstorm Tech
Standing on shoulders of giants who invented C++, OO, GUI, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML Apple just told the world to stop inventing http://is.gd/bpy6C
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Apple vs Geeks – is this the end of a love affair?
"Apple vs Geeks – is this the end of a love [...]

Tweets for 2010-04-12

"Apple vs Geeks – is this the end of a love affair?" http://dzone.com/tBsB The geek crush on apple had always surprised me. (via @jneira) #
Standing on shoulders of giants who invented C++, OO, GUI, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTML Apple just told the world to stop inventing http://is.gd/bpy6C #
Thanks to apple's attempts at stifling freedom n creativity, [...]

links for 2010-04-08

Salary Survey 2010
Computerworld Annual IT Salary Survey 2010 http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9174032/Salary_Survey_2010
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Tweets for 2010-04-08

@ghoseb I am reading it .. lots of simple common sense advice leaning towards finding the politically consistent low resistance path. in reply to ghoseb #
@ghoseb Yes. Its worth buying but don't expect any radical insights. Its leans towards practicality of overcoming common hurdles. in reply to ghoseb #
@sbtourist certainly. The use case makes the [...]

links for 2010-04-07

twitter's gizzard at master – GitHub
RT: @surya_s Gizzard: Twitter's framework for creating distributed datastores http://bit.ly/cv3Ofz
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