Organizing a Hackathon
We are trying to organize a hackthon at office in this month. Thinking around this has been going on for a while and finally decided to pick a month where people will be available and release pressure...
View ArticleBlogo – Updated Blog Editor
I mentioned in my previous post that I’m waiting for a private beta invitation from Blogo, one of the blog editors on OSX. Well, as everyone complains, OSX is missing Windows Live Editor, one of my...
View ArticleExperimenting with Oracle Virtualbox
I have been using VMWare Fusion on my MBP for a while. I noticed significant performance issues after upgrading to Mavericks. That is when I decided to try out Oracle Virtualbox. More importantly...
View ArticleWorking with Big Data
I must say that the title is a little deceiving if you are looking for a technical post on Hadoop and Pig. In the Making Sense of Data course, Google says that the data process consists of three steps...
View ArticleElastic Map Reduce – A Practical Approach
Amazon just reminded me that my AWS free tier is getting over tomorrow. I’ve been wanting to write about my EMR experiments for some time. I worked on this a couple of months back when I got a chance...
View Article5 Must for a Cloud Computing Job
I was recently asked to list 5 must for a cloud computing job. It can greatly differ for roles and kind of industry that you work for. Innovation and rapid delivery is a must for a software developer...
View ArticleFollow Your Passion
This is part 1 of a 3 part series where I discuss my decision to leave Novell, how I prepared myself to take the big change and how I coped with the new environment. 13th February 2015 was my last...
View ArticlePrepare Yourself for the Big Change
This is part 2 of my 3 part series where I took the important decision of leaving a high flying corporate life and joined a starup. I mentioned various fear factors in my last article. Having decided...
View ArticleCustom User Table with Laravel 5.2
I got introduced to Laravel a few months back while searching for an MVC framework in PHP to build web applications. After playing around a bit with CodeIgniter and Laravel, I decided to proceed with...
View ArticleMonitoring Using Mobile Devices – Rants
Just enough monitoring to ensure the health of the product. It shouldn’t be a replacement for SNMP or WMI. Requirements of such a system are Real time monitoring of critical subsystems. Simple and few...
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