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The Quintessential Non Disclosure Agreement

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

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

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

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

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

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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The Desi (Martini) Deal

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 … Continue reading

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Customizing Thunderbird on Linux / Windows (config hacks)

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 … Continue reading

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

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 … 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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