Published: by . 2 Comments on Django : using a seperate memcached cloud for sessions.
When you are using a platform like django you realise how slow sessions can get when you are using the database as a backend. The problem of using a memory cache like memcached is the fact that when you restart the server to refresh the cache or remove stale objects, the problem is that you […]
Published: by . 8 Comments on Django : using HTTP authentication for your views.
This is a small tutorial on how to use HTTP authentication for your site. Firstly you need to copy this file to httpauth.py and place it at /httpauth.py import base64 from django.contrib.auth.models import User from django.http import HttpResponse from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login ############################################################################# # def view_or_basicauth(view, request, test_func, realm = “”, *args, **kwargs): “”” […]
Published: by . 1 Comment on observing the internet.
I was thinking about the book *The long tail* , its a great read even if it is bit old. The ideas are very much relevant in today’s businesses and will continue to be as long as the Gaussian bells are around. After some discussions with my friends i chanced upon this interesting idea that […]
Published: by . 1 Comment on outsourcing development work to india ….
Hmmm, unlike what most people have to say I have started to feel that Indians working in “outsourced” development teams are getting a real bad deal. In my recent experience, i have felt that in spite of all the big talk on how India has become costlier blah blah …. its my firm belief that […]
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So this post is devoted to my conception of a startup and the differences (or at least perceived ones) it has from a big firm. (Warning: These are very subjective differences) Startups are built *for* people who are ambitious and driven , thus this gives them the momentum going forward even if resources are scarce. […]
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Lately i have been in the market, and trying to understand how it all works. After reading some decent books about how to play the game, i have finally entered it wit a testing capital of about 10000 rps (~$250). Till now i have got back 4000 rps ($100) on the initial inverstment. But till […]
Published: by . Leave a Comment on virality with a kapital ‘V’.
The web is currently obsessed with this concept of virality, how can a site grow exponentially in terms of traffic, user registrations and ten thousand other metrics. This reminds me of some sort of a gold rush, very little analysis behind what is right or wrong … people seem to be blinded by success and […]
Published: by . 1 Comment on Facebook : Make your app social , Part 1.
This is going to be a series of article about the facebook application platform, my story with it started a month back. Till now I have put in a lot of effort on this for SlideShare (Which has a sizeable audience now) . To add to it I am working on a new set of […]
Published: by . 2 Comments on Opensearch standard : Get your site on Firefox/IE7.
There is this concept of a search plugin, something which most browsers have now-a-days (Post Mozilla .. Netscape Navigator) , look at the top right corner , right next to the URL bar. I had little idea how you created this so-called search plugin. After a bit of googling , I came across the following […]