Podbharti nominated for the TATA NEN Hottest Startups awards
Hey guys! I am so glad to bring this news to you all. Thanks to Pranav of StartupDunia.com our podzine Podbharti has been nominated for the TATA NEN Hottest Startups awards. Organised by National...
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The 2008 edition of Indibloggies, the Indian Weblog Awards, has been started with the nomination phase. Sadly, the Indibloggies 2007 edition was skipped last year due to some failed happenings and...
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Thanks to the Print on demand technology, self-publishing is changing the way books have been published traditionally This article was published in the June 2009 issue of the Data quest magazine . A...
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Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in 2001, most of the stuff being ‘inspired’. So why is it being carried here after 9 long years? Well because Yahoo geocities is shutting its shop and these...
View ArticleThe bechara who needs a Cinkara
Caution: This is a piece that I wrote in Nov 2000 for the light-hearted journal of my the then employer. Its full of usual jokes and PJs and probably doesn’t deserve a read, now. So why is it being...
View ArticleAuthor Spotlight WordPress Widget
Author Spotlight is a new WordPress widget recently created by me and added to the WordPress plugin repository. The Widget displays the profile of the author width the author website link and author...
View ArticleWriting custom XPath rules for PMD
Most Java developers find static source code analysis tools very handy, PMD, CheckStyle, FindBugs being the most popular amongst them. But all of us, at some time or the other, realise that we need to...
View ArticleOverdoing the Anna Hazare thing?
Aren’t we really overdoing this Anna Hazare thing? I mean, OK there is a civic society, it made its recommendations on the Lokpal draft but the government differed and passed their own version....
View ArticleJava for young developers
Are you teaching someone Java? Do you know anyone who is taking an introductory training in Java? Do you want your 5 year old kid to start on Java? If yes, then you can help them further by introducing...
View ArticleDealing with Languages
Our friends and colleagues from other places often ask us, “How do you Indians manage back there amidst a myriad of languages?” I have always found this difficult to answer, for I was mostly able to...
View ArticleSo, less educated drivers cause more road accidents? Think again.
Let’s accept it. Most of the educated lot has this popular perception that maximum accidents are caused by drivers who are illiterate or received very less education. We think that, in general,...
View ArticleAiming for the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (CFCD) certification? Here...
I recently cleared the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (CFCD) certification and thought that I would share some tips for the benefit of others. CFCD is a professional cloud native developer...
View ArticleWhose Lie Is It Anyway?
A few months ago, I came across this perplexing insight from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey. The question asked developers to evaluate their competence in their chosen skill set, and almost 70% of...
View ArticleBuilding an InnerSource ecosystem using AWS DevOps tools
Most software companies leverage open source software (OSS) in their products, as it is a great mechanism for standardizing software and bringing in cost effectiveness via the re-use of high quality,...
View ArticleAutomating detection of security vulnerabilities and bugs in CI/CD pipelines...
Leverage Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Command Line Interface (CLI) to easily integrate CodeGuru Reviewer into your Jenkins Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline.
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