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from shri at drone-ah.com

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 …

01 Jan 2009

Proprietary FSF

671 words, ~2 min read

I have always a big fan and proponent of the FSF and having recently been interested in researching for a project came …

30 Dec 2008

X11 Remote Applications Responsiveness

230 words, ~0 min read

As a developer, I use eclipse a lot… We have a powerful server that off which eclipse is run which allows us to …

28 Dec 2008

Maven2, EJB3 and JBoss

623 words, ~2 min read

I started work on a project called InVision about a year ago but have probably spent about a week or two worth of effort …