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Setting up emails via SVN

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3 Jun 2009

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 look.

20 sureshot steps to install Ubuntu from USB

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24 Aug 2008

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 old and die in the store room.
But invariably, it always happens. The machine just lies there [...]

Another great reason for having a company blog

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25 Feb 2008

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. Just replace my name in the picture with that of your company, and the posts by [...]

Lessons in Bootstrapping

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20 Feb 2008

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 happen to reach a place where you find tons of excellent posts, it’s hard not to [...]

The Desi (Martini) Deal

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20 Dec 2007

Getting funding is easy.
Recently, I had read Sujai Karampuri, founder of Sloka Telecom (henceforth, the Sloka guy) ranting about the fact that VCs were shying away from funding his company. I felt bad for for about half a second because it looks like a great idea, but then I moved on hoping that somebody on [...]

Customizing Thunderbird on Linux / Windows (config hacks)

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26 Jul 2007

I moved to Ubuntu 7.04 sometime back and have been enjoying myself since. Though there were a couple of things which really annoyed me, and today I finally fixed them.
1. Reply on top of previous message
One problem was that in Thunderbird, when you reply to a message, the new message was appended to the end [...]

How to take a closer look at Alexa rankings (Bigger Images)

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13 May 2007

I was just playing around with the PNG url of the image, and I just found out that you can see the ranking display of the Alexa site at any dimension you feel like. All you have to do is edit the display URL. For example, the regular image size is 300×610, and by clicking [...]

25 thing to remember while creating pages in CSS

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6 May 2007

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 still not been able to decide about how CSS ought to be used. What works in [...]

Abduzeedo : Creating typeface

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16 Apr 2007

Indian websites are knows for their sad design.
Except for a few isolated cases, most of the Indian websites haven’t been updated since the last web bubble. Web Design 2.0 is still more of an Indian concept. When you consider design, I fail to understand why Indian designers should be anywhere behind those in the US. [...]

4 Simple Steps to create ATOM feed for your web app

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30 Mar 2007

On Monday, 16 June 2003 at 3:27pm, Sam Ruby published another post on his blog.
It was no ordinary post. It was about the Anatomy of a well formed log entry. It was this post which evolved from a discussion on his post, to a wiki to create an open model for Web Feed Syndication (against [...]


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