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Like Cards Against Humanity, but for startups, WordPress, developers and Bollywood
Cards Against Humanity, but safe for work and covering startups, developers, India and WordPress.
Surviving EntrepreneurShit and reactions to Unpluggd 2016
What 17 years of EntrepreneurShit survival episodes taught me about business and life in general! If you are building a business, you may find solace here!
Build It and They Won't Come - Watch this before you build your next WordPress plugin / theme / whatever...
WordPress has more than 50,000 public plugins. Should you build the next one? Will it be worthwhile maintaining it over the next five years? How will people discover your plugin? What activities can suck you away from building great plugins? How do you land up with great reviews for your plugins? Does it make sense to listen to customer feedback? How do you run a business around WordPress plugins and make money? Those are some of the questions you will get answer for, in this talk!
Is mediocrity the new gold standard?
We are Indian Developers. What China is to manufacturing, India is to software development. Cheap, Bulk, Inferior Quality. Is that true? Here are four experiences from different people.
HP Lasterjet Multifunction Printer Not Detected After Upgrading to OS X Lion - solved
I upgraded to OS X Lion today. While the upgrade went smoothly I was encountered with my first problem with Lion when I connected my HP LasterJet M1136P…
My Notes from The Influencer Project - 60 Ways to Increase Your Online Influence - In 60 Minutes
Got an email this morning from HubSpot about The Influencer Project - 60 Ways to Increase Your Online Influence - In 60 Minutes. HubSpot generally comes up with…
Inspirational Quotes for Startups from 37Signals' book Rework
If you are a startup, you have read 37Signal's opinions on business, productivity and building software. Here are some inspirational quotes from their latest…
Importing Paypal transactions into Tally accounting software
We use Paypal to receive payments from customers. We maintain our financial accounts using Tally. Imagine copying over Paypal transactions into a separate…
Gearing up for Entrepreneurship - Best Lessons
If you are coming here after my talk at Prerna - Entrepreneurship Seminar at SFIMAR today, welcome to a budding entrepreneur! What follows is a collection of my…
Showing Flex Preloader near the top of your Application
Flex comes with a reasonably good preloader (DownloadProgressBar) that shows in application center while the swf is loading and initializing. I had an…
Better Everyday - get things done, one success a day - I had many today
Where will you succeed today? My school's motto was "Better Everyday". I kept screaming "Better Everyday, Better Everyday" during Friday morning school…
Don Miguel Ruiz's Four Agreements - code for life and personal development
Ravi Malagi sent this to me and I found it worth sharing. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to…
Avoid these customers - five warning signs to say no to customers, plus three signs to die for
Are you feeling the heat of times? There aren't sufficient interesting & rewarding web projects out there. Everyone either wants to copy some social network /…
Bogged Down, Need a Break, Here's what I am going to do this weekend
Take a Pit Stop, You Need It I am bogged down. Got hundreds of things to do. I feel caught up in responsibilities and my own expectations. I need a break. Need…
Big Lie + Repetition + Audacity = Truth
Big Lie Repeated Audaciously becomes Truth Hitler, for good or bad, changed the world history. Some of the things going around me, just reminded me of Dr.…
Who is Bhaskar Bharati?
Bhaskar bana Bharti If you are in India, you may have seen such hoardings around. Who is Bhaskar Bharti you may ask? And why did Bhaskar ditch so many girl…
MacBook won't boot - sometimes!
My MacBook has started misbehaving after 3 years of good service! Last Monday it did not boot. Came with "the folder with question mark". Which means it did not…
Collaborating in web application using SVN
What would you do if you wanted to manage document versions in a web application? You wanted different users to edit a document simultaneously and then for…
Recursively unlock files on Mac OS X
I copied some songs from a CD and ended up with a folder full of locked files. iTunes can't save changes to song info (ID3 tags) until I unlocked them. How can…
Intelligent Time Duration / Estimate Slider in Flex (inspired from The Hit List)
I wrote yesterday that I am working on a time estimate slider like The Hit List. It's finally ready! Here's how it looks in The Hit List. Smart Estimate Slider…