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December 2021

28: Why read open source code?

August 2021

08: Back to IC

May 2021

20: ML model monitoring

April 2019

25: Interviewed by Managers Club

December 2018

10: Interviewed by dev-to-manager

November 2018

15: Engineering Management : Lessons learned in first year

June 2018

12: Stoicism

August 2017

April 2017

26: Automatic acquired by Sirius XM!

January 2017

13: Notes from AIFrontiers conference

May 2015

22: Using Spacemacs

May 2014

01: Load testing using Tsung

October 2013

September 2013

04: Learning where to invest money from MoneyLife

August 2013

July 2013

28: Revamped isbn.net.in (2)

June 2013

01: Met Lakshmi Rebecca of “Chai With Lakshmi” fame (2)

April 2013

18: [Tech] Why is “Database Layer as a REST API” not common? (4)
09: [Travel] Hiking around Lake Chabot (1)
09: [Travel] Monterey Bay (2)

March 2013

29: San Francisco (6)
16: Automatic launched this week (14)

February 2013

26: 60/40 rule
24: Micro targeting

January 2013

12: Review: Big Data Book by Nathan Marz (5)

December 2012

November 2012

30: Delhi By Cycle (3)
30: Taj Mahal (2)
28: Flying Fox in Jodhpur
25: Camel Safari in Thar Desert (1)
11: Nostalgia in a startup vs. Anu Aunty book (2)

October 2012

26: What I learned in gamification class (7)
03: Review of Cal Newport’s So Good book (5)

September 2012

27: Exploratory Cycling (4)
10: Doing the Flying-Fox at Vihi-Kasara (2)
08: Learning Gamification by attending a MOOC (4)

August 2012

26: Holiday at The Machan (4)

July 2012

30: Life without a TV (26)
23: Book review: Thoughts from Jaya, a retelling of Mahabharata (11)

June 2012

08: Learning Clojure (9)

May 2012

15: Paragliding in Kamshet (5)

April 2012

30: Freewriting – Review of the Accidental Genius book (12)

February 2012

15: Book Review : Focus Manifesto (12)

December 2011

November 2011

04: Inspired by companies incubated at RTBI, IIT Madras (4)

October 2011

31: Freelancing for NextDrop
28: Freelancing for Joshua Schachter (6)
21: Working out of Goa (9)

September 2011

August 2011

04: Ran a half-marathon in Dharwad (4)

July 2011

27: Alleppey and a question on how to travel (4)

June 2011

22: Leaving Infibeam (31)
14: Talk on Productivity at Barcamp Bangalore 10 (6)

May 2011

25: Statistics to wow non-techies about digital future (5)
17: Passionate Programmer book review (4)

March 2011

29: Married (47)

February 2011

23: Everyday reminder about Impact (2)
22: PESIT Alumni Newsletter Guest Editorial (1)
01: Programming Language Adoption (8)

January 2011

17: Book Review : Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
17: Cyber Celebrity? (1)

December 2010

31: isbn.net.in open-sourced (3)
06: My Bash and Vim setups (8)

November 2010

October 2010

05: Kaveri Trail Marathon 2010 (7)

September 2010

21: Featured Blogger in Outlook Magazine (7)

August 2010

21: Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto (5)

July 2010

14: Yelagiri Hills (6)
05: Marathons in India in 2010 H2 (1)

June 2010

12: In praise of Raghu Dixit (8)
07: Creativity x Organization = Impact (4)

May 2010

24: PESIT Offer to Startups: Mentor Students, Get Office Space (2)
05: About Deep Procrastination (3)

April 2010

18: isbn.net.in updates (5)
15: The Total Kannada Store (5)

March 2010

21: An experiment to be Google-Free (31)
12: How to get funding from Government of India (3)
11: isbn.net.in – One Place to find the best online price for a book in India (25)
05: A founder has to do only two things right (5)

February 2010

January 2010

15: Joining InfiBeam (35)

December 2009

26: Fun can change behavior (5)
22: Musings on 2009 (9)
09: The 5-year limit to being a coder in India? (30)
09: The magic of foss.in (1)

November 2009

24: Coding Problems for Homework (13)
13: Leaving IonLab (51)
09: An interactive version of A Byte of Python (7)
06: What I learned at NASSCOM Product Conclave 2009 (1)

October 2009

13: To get somewhere, you already have to be there (16)
06: Mobile App market in India (8)

September 2009

19: Thought for the Day (6)
15: Wish for browsers : Adopt MHTML format (7)

August 2009

31: Core Needs (9)
28: Writing Principles (6)
19: iPhone for productivity (12)
15: Twitter vs. Why we can't concentrate? (18)
12: 10 things I wish I was serious about before starting a startup (7)

July 2009

June 2009

30: My Benchmark for Entrepreneurship (11)
21: Duathlon and Murakami (7)
19: A few statistics about India (4)
11: One device or many? (6)
02: No book on Emacs (12)

May 2009

26: Has your company chosen its vector of innovation?
25: How to build an online community? (6)
21: Coming soon… TrackEveryCoin, a personal finance system (25)
17: Ideas are Cheap : IMDB of Music, Books? (7)
13: A new kind of wiki (4)
07: Interview with CocoaCast (7)

April 2009

27: The difference between fun and work (13)
24: Chunking (2)
21: The new ION packaging (13)
20: Vote for the Candidate (8)
18: I hate tabs (12)
14: What is your ideal personal finance life? (10)
09: One year since I had a salary (12)
08: Idli, Orchid and Will Power (6)

March 2009

31: Mindmaps (7)
28: From Google Reader to MyAlltop (7)
25: What's in a name, indeed? (7)
22: Thought for the Day (2)
11: Where to find startup jobs in India? (14)
09: Barcamp Bangalore 8
09: Why Vista (Still) Sucks (10)
03: Mobile phone is half the PC (3)

February 2009

23: Tadiyandamol Again
19: Let's talk about future of webapp development at BCB8
17: Ideas are Cheap : Kannada Word Lists (2)
10: What's your vision for Bengaluru? (3)
05: Why Stack Overflow is useful (3)
02: Get into the Flow (11)

January 2009

26: Product for the future (4)
25: Water Sports in Sharavathy Valley (9)
16: Outliers : What leads to Success (7)
14: Refocus on the Basics (6)

December 2008

26: Why use Creative Commons license? (4)
23: It is not obvious how to make money online (12)
14: "My Online Life" in Mint (11)
13: How Fresh Graduates Can Grow (13)
05: What product creation should be about

November 2008

29: Great response to 'A Byte of Vim' (6)
25: Announcing my free book on Vim (18)
17: Bangalore Ultra Marathon 2008 (15)
15: ROAM – Just the bike. The rider. And a place to ride. (1)
12: Thought for the Day (1)
07: Ideas are Cheap: Touch screen device with a browser (5)
03: Internet usage in India (1)

October 2008

27: Mullainagiri, third time lucky as well (3)
22: Common activities means better friends (5)
19: Are electric scooters viable? (5)
16: Politicians should have a retirement age (2)
12: A principled life according to Steve Pavlina (10)
07: What we do at IONLAB (2)
01: A Byte of Python in hard copy (4)

September 2008

26: Ideas are Cheap : Better email (4)
22: Cycling To Work at Barcamp Bangalore 7 (11)
20: IONLAB – The Next Experiment (15)
16: How to make a website (2)
12: Personal Wiki (1)
05: Book updated for Python 3.0 (20)

August 2008

27: Ideas are Cheap : Real Coding Training (11)
25: Cycling on Kanakapura Road (4)
18: How attractive is your website? (8)
12: New Theme (19)
09: Specialization vs Generalization (4)
01: Social networks of yore (6)

July 2008

29: Indian Innovations for the Energy Challenge (12)
24: proto.in Edition 4 at Delhi (4)
17: Ideas are Cheap – Build your mobile (7)
09: Tips for Working From Home (6)
05: The meaning of Touch (6)
01: Trekking in Kodachadri (11)

June 2008

May 2008

29: Cut down that movie (3)
25: Smart Techie Startup City (13)
21: Avenue Road
18: The Sunfeast 10K run (7)
17: Always remember Carpe Diem (2)
13: How to handle information overload (6)
09: Career Advice
08: Biking to Ooty (6)

April 2008

24: Why television and movies are captivating
21: Happy Birthday to ion (7)
21: Barcamp Bangalore 6 Day 2 (3)
21: Barcamp Bangalore 6 Day 1 (3)
20: Why You Should Run (16)
14: Web dev frameworks vs RIA (12)
09: Last day at Adobe (17)

March 2008

30: Thought for the Day (2)
28: Aware Songs (3)
21: Guess who? (2)
18: A Business Mind (2)
14: What is NDTV’s online strategy? (1)
12: A productive homepage (4)
10: How about an Indian amateur music album? (6)
07: Two unofficial traffic rules in India (6)

February 2008

29: Technology can be beautiful (3)
25: Why does crowdsourcing work? (7)
24: Friendship Formula (3)
16: Searches leading to this website (4)
14: It’s the journey lah! (1)
05: Dream Running Route (4)

January 2008

31: Urban Development (6)
29: Pulau Ubin Island
25: Useful Websites for India (11)
24: How to defend India? (30)
18: Promenade in Esplanade (4)
14: Sankranti Rituals (6)
12: How to recognize an American tourist? (10)
10: Ancient or Modern Society? (6)
02: Innovation in Indian universities? (7)

December 2007

31: Hitting the books (3)
30: Utopia (8)
27: Singapore (7)
20: Web Innovation 2007 Day 2
19: Web Innovation 2007 Day 1 (4)
16: First Bangalore Ultra Marathon (7)
15: Why I am not running the BSNL Bangalore International Marathon (9)
11: Best quote I’ve read in a while (2)
09: Vegetable 2.0 (6)

November 2007

22: Analyze this (7)
16: Effective Vim (23)
03: ion on a roll (9)

October 2007

30: Getaway
22: Closed source on Linux is hard (30)
16: raison d’Ãªtre (11)
09: Hack Day videos
08: Hack Day India (6)
03: Announcing Flex Builder on Linux (7)
02: Why students and open source? (7)

September 2007

03: OpenCoffeeClub 2 (2)

August 2007

13: Biking to Hogenakkal (5)
10: All your machines are belong to us (1)

July 2007

29: Software as a living organism (4)
18: What really happens with feedback forms… (1)
08: ion logo designs (9)
08: Alias (5)
01: Marathons in India in 2007 (7)

June 2007

27: Big Bazaar, India Central, Future Dreams (5)
23: Mumbai Family Trip
11: Moxie . AdvancedDataGrid . OutInTheWild() (3)
09: Why iCon (5)
05: Look out for the new RadioVeRVe (2)

May 2007

April 2007

26: Evolution of Adobe Flex : now open source (2)
25: ion and the police (6)
21: The ion : ipod charger, mobile charger and more (14)
10: Big Brother (27)
07: pink-e (2)

March 2007

27: Outlook on Linux : Evolution Exchange (9)
18: Sights of a little town (3)
08: Why p2p in a browser (7)
01: Moxie

February 2007

January 2007

December 2006

November 2006

October 2006

31: Keep ideating (7)
27: PowerBook for sale (12)
19: Last day (15)
06: Shortcuts (6)

September 2006

28: Hard Questions (10)
20: Forty Two (8)
11: Culture (6)

August 2006

24: Cycling (41)
11: Thought for the Day (5)
08: Super

July 2006

June 2006

28: Keeping track of pages? (3)
26: Night Drive (9)
20: Linkblog (2)
14: Brazilian Portuguese Bytes of Python (1)
13: Always on software (7)
01: The Search (5)

May 2006

April 2006

March 2006

31: Car PC, anyone? (4)
29: Goodbye is the hardest word to say (8)
24: GVim (4)
17: Truly Formulasia (4)
17: Mukthi
13: German Bytes of Python (1)
12: Radio City Live (14)
11: Have you seen Bangalore like this? (20)
09: CL2 (2)
07: How Products Are Made (1)
05: Kumara Parvatha (14)
02: Stepping stone (2)

February 2006

January 2006

December 2005

November 2005

30: foss.in day 2 (7)
30: Insertion sort, anyone?
29: foss.in day 1 (2)
29: Sify trouble (1)
29: Conversation in the cab (6)
29: LinCDs
29: PESIT FOSS Day (1)
23: It’s a small utility (13)
22: It doesn’t pay to be honest
21: REBIEX
21: More Conversations (2)
20: Memories of Linux Bangalore 2003 (30)
14: Potholed? (4)
10: Uncaffeinated (9)
10: 13 Virtues
09: What a wonderful code (3)
08: Sunset (2)
08: Concepts (7)
04: Internet Business Models (8)

October 2005

31: Thrissur again (2)
26: Richie blog rich (7)
24: Speaking of foss.in… (19)
23: Agriculture in India (2)
23: Lisp Bazaar (9)
22: A Podsafe CD (5)
17: Another Sunday, Another Trek (2)
14: The Vortal (2)
14: Thought for the day (6)
13: Gaim for some Google Talk? (9)
11: Maths or Science or… ? (3)
10: YPodcast
10: The Louvre (2)
10: Parkinson’s Law
09: Will the real IIPM please stand up? (19)
09: A R Rahman Concert (12)
07: Mano Murthy did it again (6)
06: Any webdevs interested to work for Yahoo? (6)
06: Logical art (3)
05: Yahoo! Bangalore turns 5 (2)

September 2005

22: Pen and Paper (3)
22: Willison has entered the building (1)
21: Getting off the chair (9)

August 2005

30: Sampada (8)
23: perl -c life (3)
22: Three portals you should know about… (2)
19: The Time Thieves (4)
17: The shortest interview possible (7)
15: Independence Day celebrations at Parikrma
15: Happy Independence Day
14: Care to share… The Parikrma Way
11: Aamir Khan’s blog (4)
09: Y! Bangalore Showcase 2005 (9)
08: Statistics (6)
06: My new time management strategy (14)
06: Prabhakar Raghavan’s interview
04: That Podcast Song
03: Python at CodeZoo (3)

July 2005

29: Insightful books about Computing (10)
26: Y, A and G (8)
23: Broadband (14)
22: Podcast Awards (12)
20: Tiger Dictionary (7)
20: The other parking problem (1)
18: 360 API (3)
18: Where are the Indian IT women bloggers? (11)
16: Street Harassment (8)
15: Move over, Rails? (10)
15: LB2005
10: What about software patents in India? (36)
10: Obsession session
05: Italian Bytes of Python (6)
02: Want to know what India is talking about?
01: It’s been a year (13)
01: Where’s Aathitude?

June 2005

30: When geeks rap …. (1)
29: The Podcast experience
26: Crouching Tiger Hidden Productivity (29)
24: UnderestimatedTwiki (11)
22: Firefox has become cranky? (23)
18: Ode to the Moonwalker (2)
18: Book Tagged (4)
17: How do you attain self-discipline?
16: An OS in the browser (6)
15: Ajax experts wanted
11: Sleuth (7)
10: The Army is here
10: The Second coming of Steve Jobs (10)
09: Chiliablog and Softies (4)
05: Language matters (23)
01: State of Fear (15)

May 2005

17: Creativity (4)
13: Python Jobs (16)
12: Reason 82 to blog (6)
10: GMail is trying too hard (5)
10: What is a blog? (2)
09: SQL and XML are not that different (1)
09: Connect the text (2)
05: Do you want to Yahoo! ? (4)
04: Everybody’s a salesman
04: Messenger Bot (2)
03: Faith and Life (27)

April 2005

March 2005

30: The Apple bites back (4)
29: Circle is open now (46)
27: Playing with Picasa (4)
27: A Heap of Broken Images (5)
27: Ponder (5)
27: How to kill an open source project… (21)
26: Yahoo! Groups gets a facelift (4)
26: All about PyCon05 (2)
25: How to spell my name
24: GMail out of beta soon? (19)
24: Search for the Commons
23: Reading H2G2 (4)
22: Thout Bytes (4)
21: iPod! (22)
18: So why not a blog mela (7)
18: GCC and the ABI
16: Yahoo 360! (8)
14: Bazaar-NG (5)
12: Ruby-India First Meetup (9)
12: Walk the tree (2)
11: Overtime (3)
10: Tautologies are overrated (13)
10: The Job Spool (15)
09: Gymmitment (7)
08: Indian Music Online (7)
03: Yahoo! is a 10 year old kid (14)
01: Yahoo! Search Python API Howto (24)

February 2005

28: Gopal (3)
27: Code Jammin’ (2)
27: Renaissance 2005 (18)
24: Journey to Trichur (2)
22: Politics, anyone? (4)
22: The Art of Blogging
19: Coming soon : Learn Python in German! (8)
17: Learn Python in Chinese!! (6)
17: BangPypers meet on Saturday (4)
16: Is Open Source the solution? (7)
15: Prince of Ayodhya (18)
14: Lovaria epidemic (8)
13: My Yahee! (5)
11: Ask for Answers
11: Wikipedia to get Googlified? (7)
10: Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox (46)
10: A Blogful of Work (2)
09: Why I prefer KDE over GNOME (19)
09: It finally hit me why Mepis / Debian rocks (30)
08: Google Maps (6)
07: GPLed Qt on Windows! (2)
05: Ask Jeeves buys Bloglines? (4)
04: Redesigned my book website
04: Bangalore Pythonistas list is high traffic!
04: Interface it
04: Japan now blogs on Yahoo! (2)
02: AOP leads you to a good job?
02: Aspect Oriented Programming and TreeCC
01: Trek at Thusharagiri (15)

January 2005

30: Blogging from Calicut! (9)
28: Talk at FLOSS Meet tomorrow
27: Code word Legal (3)
26: Soul and Role of Yahoo and Google (12)
26: PyCon
24: Deliciously popular! (2)
24: Snake charmer (2)
23: Stories by Sudha Murty (8)
22: First Bangalore Python meetup (18)
22: My sister draws in GIMP (13)
21: Python meetup in Bangalore tomorrow
20: Choose Python (3)
19: Evolution on Windows : The Cross Platform Holy Grail (8)
19: The Road to Gandolfo (8)
18: Why is the computer against me ? (2)
18: Will Yahoo buy Six Apart ?
17: Premshree joins Yahoo! (2)
17: Alex Speech (11)
17: Snakes and stones (2)
16: Inspiration (4)
16: The age of Folksonomy (2)
15: Byte parts
14: The Confluence Project
14: SLYNUX
14: Future of Programming is Functional Programming ? (12)
14: Byte of Python list is formally open
13: Byte of Python revived (9)
13: Imagine a waiter’s life (1)
12: Bloglines rules! (7)
12: The Headless Mac is here
09: Python workshop at NIT Calicut (8)
09: The IndiBloggies (6)
05: Guido on static typing in Python
05: HTML Export feature for WordPress (5)
04: A Rich Life (7)
02: LinkBlog (1)
02: Comment spam sucks (2)
01: Happy New Year 2005

December 2004

31: Tsunami Relief Efforts (1)
31: Kong is King
31: Cycling vs biking (4)
29: Knoppix Rules (1)
29: Category Specific Feeds
29: About The Dreamer (2)
28: Joke Falls (11)
26: Tsunami hits South and South East Asia (1)
25: Biking to Green Valley (9)
24: I want to go gadling too (4)
23: More Wikipedia
21: Reelity (4)
13: Great movie after a great day
12: Wikipedia rocks (2)
09: Dynamic Java (2)
08: Galaxy of neck and heads (4)
06: Yahoo! Bangalore looking for good hackers
05: Distro considerations (7)
05: 2004 Weblog Awards (2)
04: Now Reading: Six Thinking Hats by Edward de Bono
03: LB2004 Day 3 (2)
02: LB2004 Day 2 (2)
02: Talking Python (3)
01: LB2004 Day 1
01: Parties should be like this…. (4)

November 2004

October 2004

14: Scripting one-liners
13: Interesting stuff in computing

September 2004

26: LINDEC 2004
23: 22nd over (2)
19: Design process of Thunderbird Logo
18: Yahoo and Creative Commons
14: Internet Radio (2)
10: Recursive searching
09: Gloomy Weather
03: Python – Metaclasses, Decorators and other funky stuff
01: Website reloaded!

July 2004

29: IronPython is open source!!
27: Apache on-demand!
18: The Future of PC ?
08: Mullainagiri photos (3)
01: My book in a Microsoft magazine! (2)

June 2004

May 2004

29: DotGNU
28: What a blast!
28: Shocker duplicate
28: Which scripting language is right for you?
23: College life… (7)
21: Pretty Docbook Form?
19: Fedora Core 2 arrives!
19: Network security is cool
19: What a robot!
18: Why Sonia Gandhi as PM of India is a national disaster
18: All about Longhorn
18: The Prometheus Deception
11: Review Bytes
09: Longhorn Details!
07: I want GMail! (8)
06: Mono Beta 1 out!
04: The Adventure of Shivanasamudram! (4)

April 2004

30: Why MySQL?
29: Around the world in a week ?! (3)
28: Time-out
20: Innovations in C# (1)
20: First Time Vote! (1)
14: Google – the OS ! (1)
12: More translated bytes (2)
10: Midnight Escapade! (1)
05: Microsoft releases open source code!
05: Mobile friends (3)
05: The Original and the Next-generation Clone: Java and C#
04: The Matlock Paper at home
04: The sounds of Longhorn (1)
02: Why is Python not as popular as it should be?

March 2004

30: More bytes of Python!
30: Yahooooo! (4)
28: 3D Desktop!
28: Simputer (2)
26: Team India Shining
26: IronPython again
22: Managing The Future Of Open Source Software
16: Coffee-drinking snakes: Java and Python
15: Back at the GATE (3)
14: Editing Away
13: More Mono Talk
12: Java Generics
09: Global Village (1)
07: Thanks for coming!
07: Language Interoperability Problems!
05: Halloween X (1)
05: Mono talk
04: Bourne Again (1)
04: Sys-Con

February 2004

January 2004