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02 Sep 2013
Stuff I can do (Almost) Anywhere
Thanks to a pocket computer with a touch screen, a nationwide wireless network infrastructure, and a variety of free services, I can do many things almost anywhere.
15 Jun 2011
Do You Want Free Engraving With That?
Via Eli Dourado, a speculation on: Why does Apple offer free engraving?
08 Apr 2011
This week, we sent out the first set of invites to people. Mavenn is still minimal but usable. We have working infrastructure for several kinds of information streams. The display is spartan, some actions and possibilities are not quite obvious. But its heartening to see people appreciate little tricks with bookmarklets and ease of use.
04 Dec 2010
Keeping Rails Migrations Rolling
Migrations allow Rails developers to easily incorporate schema changes as they develop and enhance their web application or service. Rails comes with a set of default rake tasks for migrations, which look for and load a set of time-stamp ordered files. By convention, these file names map to a set of class names, and on these, the migrator invokes the “up” or “down” class method as appropriate.
01 Aug 2010
Twenty nine years ago, I participated for the first and the only time in an elocution competition. I was in elementary school, and the event was organized to commemorate the August 1 anniversary for Lokmanya Tilak.
<p class="credit">Photo: Vinayak Yadav</p>