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Thoughts: Open Standards and Technology for Movie Rental Business
I have been thinking about open-standards for movie-rental business. I searched to find about such standards but I couldn’t locate. Do you know of any? Basically, a set of specifications/protocols...
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Amazon S3 RequestTimeTooSkewed Error
Recently, we have started noticing “RequestTimeTooSkewed” erro while making requests to Amazon S3. The official FAQs suggests following: Amazon S3 requires all machines making requests be within 15...
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Creating and Customising Amazon EC2 AMI
Do you want to create/customize an EC2 AMI? Check out this tutorial by Rohan. Briefly, steps are: Find a suitable base AMI. You can use EC2 Console to search Launch an instance from command-line using...
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Installing Riak on Mac OSX
I am evaluating various nosql solutions for our existing/new projects. Bluesmoon recommended about Riak which is an awesome nosql datastore/database (and lot more). I couldn’t wait to check it out....
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Illusory Superiority
Illusory superiority is a topic of psychology, and it is considered to be one of many positive illusions relating to self. I am not a psychologist. This blog post is based on my observations about...
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I need X to do Y — Syndrome
Most of us have or have had this syndrome “I need X to do Y”. I need to join X course to learn Y I need to X training to start doing Y project I need a Laptop to start programming Python; Desktop...
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Thank You
This post is dedicated to people and companies, who allowed me to work with them. They hired me when I was nothing. I messed up so many times, yet they kept supporting me. I was not up to the mark,...
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
Image Courtesy: WikiMedia When I woke up earlier today, my wife told me about Steve Jobs‘ death (on October 5, 2011). I was speechless and really didn’t know what just happened. I am still thinking...
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RIP Dennis Ritchie (DMR), 1941 — 2011
(Image Courtesy: WikiMedia) Dennis Ritchie passed away couple of days back (on October 8, 2011). As Tim Bray has written summerised, this world would have been different, if Dennis Ritchie had not...
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Adobe Online Store for India is now available
We have been asking for an online Adobe Store (for India) for years, finally it is here - http://shop.adobe.com/in. I am sure, Adobe would soon realise that they should have done it earlier. Anyway,...
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RIP, Kenneth Gonsalves “KG” (1953 — 2012)
(Image Courtesy: Linux Bangalore (foss.in)) Kenneth Gonsalves, a champion in Indian (NRC)FOSS, Python and Django community passed away on August 3, 2012. Kenneth’s presence would be hugely missed in...
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Mac OSX (10.8) Mountain Lion: Fixing Apache, PHP, Subversion, User Sites,...
While Mountain Lion (OSX 10.8) has brought many enhancements and fixes (mostly performance), it has also caused frustration to old users. You might have noticed following issues in Mountain Lion: Web...
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Update: Whereabouts
Just in case, you still follow this blog and wondering about me? I thought, it would be fair to leave some details on that. In Kanpur (my hometown) spending most of time on (or around) IndieReign,...
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Installing NumPy and SciPy on Mac OSX 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
I am playing with ExpEyes, which is awesome tool for anyone who wants to learn electronics (and physics). ExpEyes comes with software (written in python) for GNU/Linux and Windows. I intend to run it...
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We’re Hiring Developers!
We have been working on bunch of products (indiereign.com, and others) for sometime. To take these products to next level, quickly and elegantly, we have recently started expanding our team. We are...
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Amazon Cloudfront – Video Streaming (rtmp) Issue?
Are you using Amazon Cloudfront for public/private video streaming over rtmp? Having trouble to figure out why some of your videos fail to stream (over rtmp) and throw ‘Stream not found’...
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Invalidating Preferences Cache in Mavericks (OS X 10.9.x)
I recently set up a fresh install of Mavericks (OS X 10.9), and copied over some of preferences (plist) files from old installation to new box ( (~/Library/Preferences). I noticed, applications failed...
View ArticleMOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses
MOOC is known to everyone these days. I am enrolled in some of the courses on Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Stanford, and others most of the time. I sometimes look at Khan Academy’s lessons/courses as well....
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What I am up to?
This is how my 2014 passed, or what I am up to: riding my motorcycle a lot hacking electronics and IoT using OSHW dockerising things (apps, services) playing with Apache Mesos, and ecosystem around it...
View ArticleDelegate Carefully
While running a business or teams, we delegate a lot of responsibilities to individuals in our company. Over delegation can be counter productive and stressful if not managed carefully. While...
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