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Complaint Resolution and Lack of Ownership
An interesting incident happened today. For one of the festivals my wife had bought chocolate muffins for her niece and nephew. As it tuned out, even though the salesman claimed them to be fresh, they were fungus ridden. We came to know about their state once her niece opened the box to relish her favorite […]
Entrepreneurship Tales : Where is my BlackBerry?
November 19, 2010
Something interesting happened today. I came home after work, had a few quick bites and took my kid to the park so that I could spend some time with the little one. While we were at the swings, there was another dad who had 2 kids with him and a BlackBerry 🙂 People with BlackBerry […]
When Would You Need Transactions for Read-Only Data
October 24, 2010
In any application there are situations where you would have to use transactions. Mostly transactions are used for writes. So you would have situations like modifying multiple data sets and of course all the steps should be in a transaction and follow the ACID characteristics or if you have a high traffic site, you would […]
deciding between your dreams
June 13, 2010
Sometimes it is tough to take a call and decide the priority on whether you would like to pursue one dream and drop the other one. Both the dreams might be close to your heart and giving up one for the other might sound insane. You would try to do justice to both of them […]
why quality is even more important for small organizations
June 12, 2010
Recently at Inphina, we decided to have a backup line for our broadband connection. There were more than a couple of vendors who could be approached. Two of them were big names TATA and Reliance and then we had Spectranet and Tikona as not the large ISPs. From our office we could see the Tikona […]
The Big Plunge
May 1, 2010
Close on the heels of James Gosling resigning from Oracle, I too decided that it was time to give shape to my long-term ambition to turn into an entrepreneur. Well before you pull me up for comparing with “The James Gosling”, let me quickly clarify that the similarity with James ends there. I spent around […]
Download .flv Files, FireFox Plugin to the Rescue
November 8, 2009
Many sites have good .flv video content that you would rather download and listen to when you are not connected to the internet. Firefox plugin called the Download helper makes it easy. Just follow the steps Not sure if it’s legal, but you can: – with Firefox – and DownloadHelper extension – click Play once, […]
QuickTip: Embedding Vimeo Video in WordPress.com
September 20, 2009
After some struggle I did manage to finally embed the Vimeo video into my blog. Note that the embed script given at the Vimeo video would not work. Just click on the video that you want to embed. For example the link would come as http://vimeo.com/channels/osscamp#6532611 Now in order to embed this, there is a […]
The Centennial Post: Thanking Balaji D Loganathan and Xebia
September 8, 2009
I was reserving this post since a long time. This is the 100th post on this blog and I would sincerely like to thank my dear colleague Balaji D Loganathan who is the co-founder of Spritle (pronounced Spritley) and my current organization Xebia for motivating me to start a blog. Balaji was always an avid […]
Jailbreak and Unlock Non-Activated iPhone 3GS in India
August 16, 2009
All right! So i got this shiny new iPhone 3GS from a friend of mine who wanted to know if it would work with a local carrier in India. There were a couple of problems 3GS is newer in India, though it is also quite new in the US The phone was not activated with […]
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August 15, 2011
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