After several weeks of planning, we finally had Abhinav Saxena our old friend and associate come over and deliver Tech-talk for this week.
Abhinav is a graduate of Computer Science from BITS Pilani. After working with Yahoo and participating in NirmaLabs (at that time India’s premier startup incubator), Abhinav is currently a co-founder and lead developer of ShipX.
We had our old friend Mayank Sharma come over and deliver this installment of Tech-talk.
Mayank is a graduate of Computer Science from IIT Delhi. After 8 years of successful career in the corporate world, he finally took the plunge and started smsTweet, mCoupons, mLoyalty and Revu. Here he is sharing, for the first time, the lessons of his journey: both bitter and sweet (well, mostly sweet).
We recently started an internal series of short technical talks. The topics are mainly based what people are working on at the moment, which catches their fancy and they think it is worth sharing. We will put the summaries of the talks here. See them all under the category Tech Talks.
Here’s a review of the excellent book on Web Usuability, Don’t Make Me think by Steve Krug. You can buy it on Amazon or FlipKart.
Boilerplate is any text that is or can be reused in new contexts or applications without being changed much from the original. – Wikipedia.
Even if one of Rails’ mantra is DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself), we often find ourselves repeating stuff, if not in the same project, at least across multiple projects. How many times have you found yourself configuring the ExceptionNotifier plugin, or SMTP server settings, or capistrano scripts in exactly the same or at least very similar ways? Its time to go meta and stop repeating even across projects. Here are some tips:
