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from shri at drone-ah.com

17 Mar 2009

mmmmmmm hhhhhh ddddd

688 words, ~2 min read

Krish , my little brother ;-) recently wrote about HD and I loved that article and agree with him wholeheartedly. Over …

10 Mar 2009

Database Systems Compared

756 words, ~3 min read

My first experiences of a computer started with DBase III+ which is now dBASE , then went on to Foxpro , now Microsoft …

09 Mar 2009

Making Twitter Better

793 words, ~3 min read

I think that twitter is a fantastic service and has a bright future. However, like a lot of new things, the question of …

04 Mar 2009

Making Twitter Faster

578 words, ~2 min read

From my perspective, Twitter has a really really interesting technical problem to solve. How to store and retrieve a …

10 Feb 2009

Accepting Google

429 words, ~1 min read

Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) correctly points out that when we refer to search engines, we are really only referring to …

03 Feb 2009

Customisation

342 words, ~1 min read

Being an avid Linux user for users, I am seriously spoilt in terms of being able to customise everything / anything to …

31 Jan 2009

Bad Google

257 words, ~1 min read

I stumbled across [a post by a Mark Ghosh, an unhappy orkut user]( …

31 Jan 2009

Controversy

770 words, ~3 min read

We have never been shy about voicing our opinions or being controversial. While discussing some PR requirements recently …

13 Jan 2009

On top of Tasktop

1,104 words, ~4 min read

My post about tracking time attracted the attention of Tasktop . While this had been mentioned to me before, I was …

12 Jan 2009

Building A Website

509 words, ~2 min read

Most people would think that building a good website is straightforward and it was. A few years ago, when the web was …