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VPS Hosting Experiences
Feb 19, 20113 min read

VPS Hosting Experiences

So after the frustrating experiences with my shared hosting provider, I decided to move to VPS hosting once and for all. I knew that this would mean, spending more money, and having to spend more t...

Google Docs, ODF and Data Portability
Jan 29, 20113 min read

Google Docs, ODF and Data Portability

Consider the code below to display a line of text in HTML: Now let's say, we see some developer write it this way: What would you say of the quality of the markup above? Now what if I tell you that...

Why Google AppEngine still sucks
Mar 12, 20104 min read

Why Google AppEngine still sucks

Last June, when I built the app using , I had . After giving it about 9 months to mature, I thought I will take a look at it again with a fresh perspective on where it stands. The first thing that...

Google Reader - Mark Until Current As Read
Aug 14, 20092 min read

Google Reader - Mark Until Current As Read

I am an ardent feed consumer. I easily have over 300 feeds in my and read them whenever I get a chance. The feeds include technology blogs, photography blogs, local news, startup blogs, blogs by fa...

What I dislike about Google AppEngine
Jun 22, 20093 min read

What I dislike about Google AppEngine

When I built the ' ' application, one of the things I had in mind was to see how quickly an application can be built in the most economical way. While the application is working like a charm, a day...

My weekend hack - Twitter Trending Topics
Jun 21, 20091 min read

My weekend hack - Twitter Trending Topics

I got this idea of building an application which pulls all the pages mentioned in the trending topics on Twitter. Why would that be useful? Well, it's the simplest replacement for Google News, but...

Experiment with Delicious and Python
Jun 18, 20092 min read

Experiment with Delicious and Python

Once in a while, I look at my Delicious bookmarks to get an idea of what I have been upto in recent time. The ' ' tool was written with exactly that in mind. I began to wonder if my bookmarks can g...

Optimizing website bandwidth consumption
May 29, 20095 min read

Optimizing website bandwidth consumption

Since the time I have hosted this blog on Wordpress, I am looking for patterns and tweaks to optimize my bandwidth consumption. Most hosting providers charge you for your bandwidth, so it is always...

Why it is the way it is - Hypertext Design Issues
Jan 22, 20093 min read

Why it is the way it is - Hypertext Design Issues

This post is an analysis of an early document on . The key ideas being discussed in this document are on Hypertext - whether links should be monodirectional or bidirectional, should links be typed...