Tag Archives: programming

7 easy steps to recruit the right developer

Recruitment is one of the most important things a startup needs to do. We too put in a lot of emphasis on recruitment at VXT and even though we have had a few bad recruits, I would consider that we … Continue reading

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iOS Deployments over the web using PHP

Deployments over iOS are quite painful. When a developer sends you a release you can try on your phone, they send over two files – something.mobileprovision and youApp.ipa. The first file lists the devices on which your app will run … Continue reading

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Installing PHP Pear on Mac OSX 10.6 with PHP 5.3.3

Simplegeo is getting really hot these days and we have a couple of projects where we’re using it. It was Friday night and seemed like a good time to go and test some of the scripts that we had been … Continue reading

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Moving to WordPress 3.0

I’m glad to say that after a good six months of lying in the dust, I finally managed to salvage this blog last week. There are a few major changes that have happened. One, I moved the blog from one … Continue reading

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Introducing Generatrix

For the last few months, we have been working on creating our own PHP framework which can help us build applications quickly and safely. The result is called Generatrix and it is now hosted on Github.com Here is a brief … Continue reading

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Setting up emails via SVN

We finally managed to setup SVN to start sending us emails on each commit. I also wrote about it in more detail on the company blog. If you’ve just started hosting svn on your server recently, you should take a … Continue reading

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Cleartrip planning to launch API

While going through my feeds yesterday, I came across something really interesting on the ProgrammableWeb feed. Cleartrip, one of the best looking airline websites in India, is planning to start an API. This seems to have been started in conjunction … Continue reading

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Cgi-bin and the ’500 Internet Server Error’

I never knew that the world of cgi-bin was so cryptic. Cgi-bin has always been a good neighbor. Ever since I started developing, this folder was always somewhere in the vicinity. Even though we never had anything to do with … Continue reading

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Building a widget / ecosystem of programmers

QuarkRuby, one of the hottest shopping startups in India has a new post about building widgets. It is a great post and they talk about all sorts of widgets one can possibly make. On seeing a post on programming, it … Continue reading

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25 thing to remember while creating pages in CSS

A page with a good CSS is it’s own heaven. A page with a bad CSS is it’s own hell. For years, CSS has been defining the fashion in the internet industry. Yet, the designers of the different browsers have … Continue reading

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