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7 easy steps to recruit the right developer

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Sudhanshu

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

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Sudhanshu

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

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Sudhanshu

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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Creating New vs Repairing the Old

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Sudhanshu

My car broke down again today morning and it resulted in another trip to the service station next door. The guys there are usually helpful, though they do charge a little more than I would like. The starter had some … Continue reading →

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The Quintessential Non Disclosure Agreement

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Sudhanshu

If you run a company, you really can’t get away without signing an NDA. You need to sign one before you can talk to anybody. This is why I thought we should have a discussion about how is an NDA … Continue reading →

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Moving to WordPress 3.0

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Sudhanshu

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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Setting up emails via SVN

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Sudhanshu

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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20 sureshot steps to install Ubuntu from USB

Posted on August 24, 2008 by Sudhanshu

Like people, machines too need love. When you get a new machine, you think to yourself that this time you will not dump that old machine. It had served you well for so long and it doesn’t deserve to get … Continue reading →

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Another great reason for having a company blog

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Sudhanshu

Gautam Ghosh pointed out on Twitter today that google is showing results from bloggers in a slightly different fashion today. I checked it out and it sure looks great. This is definitely another great reason to start a company blog. … Continue reading →

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Lessons in Bootstrapping

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Sudhanshu

The internet is full of advice, both good and bad, and most of us keep running through hundreds of feeds every day, to make sure that if there is any good in there we will find it. So when you … Continue reading →

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