Mosambe for starters

Mosambe is a one-stop shop to find the right jobs and the right talent. It is a platform for you to network with your colleagues, gain greater visibility and find new opportunities. For companies- setting up a branded account, posting a job and finding the right talent is simple, easy, effective and hassle free. Mosambe(http://mosambe.com) is the creation of Kaasu info ventures private limited, a small team based out of Hyderabad....

April 15, 2009 · 3 min · 501 words · Me

Waltz in bugland

I have been working on other people’s bugs for the last couple of weeks and it has been a terribly painful experience. This has been a great experience which has taught me a lot of corrective measures for the roadmap ahead for me. Some basic observations are Not everyone can program or should program - Conceptually it is really easy to type in read a tutorial or 2. But what i saw is pure torture for a guy like me , you need some talent to write a decent application....

April 1, 2009 · 2 min · 297 words · Me

Post on twitter/kwippy using .NET

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Net; using System.Web; namespace ConsoleApplication1 { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { System.Net.ServicePointManager.Expect100Continue = false; Uri address = new Uri(“http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json”); // Create the web request HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest; request.Method = “POST”; request.ContentType = “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”; request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(“username”, “password”); StringBuilder data = new StringBuilder(); data.Append(“status=from%20.net”); // Create a byte array of the data we want to send byte[] byteData = UTF8Encoding....

March 3, 2009 · 1 min · 140 words · Me

scale or not to scale

Well, for lack of better topics i will take this opportunity to talk about some cool things that i have started to learn namely the .NET platform. The best part is that i finally get exposed to complete GUI based tools to do nearly everything, (i am sure i will find a way to do most things on the commadline). Well new things and seems i need to scale than the applications i work on ;)....

February 26, 2009 · 1 min · 78 words · Me

Django : Optimizations within the platform

In my experience with both rails and django, i would have to admit that a lot of things need to be improved at the core of these platforms so that developers can truly deploy a really fast production site. Let talk about what we did at kwippy to make it that much more faster than the default Django setup. Use memcached properly : The trick in getting speed is to cache all logged out pages and heavy caching of the user objects when logged in....

November 18, 2008 · 2 min · 387 words · Me