Writing
Update: Asterisk is working now!
Mitul was in the office today and we finally got our Tata Indicom ISDN PRI line working with Digium TE110P card. Mitul posted an entry about it explaining the…
Chocolates day, New office work
We celebrated chocolates day in Magnet today. It was quite a blast. When HR emailed people about it on Tuesday, waves started. Here's what Sarita said: Hello…
The Richest Man in Babylon
I read George Clason's classic The Richest Man in Babylon two weeks ago. I read the ebook and it was a perfect read for a holiday. The book teaches you the…
Gallery added, lovely kitty
I wanted to add an image gallery to the site for quite some time. Now that I got a new camera, I thought it's a good time! And then I read Kishore's post about…
Bar code labels with KBarCoder
We wanted to label all our hardware assets and an easy way to track things. As we are moving to a new office, it's time to try out all the cool things and…
Dirty White Beauty
I did not know that my white MacBook will get dirty when I bought it. And I am not happy with it. The machine works very well, I've got three operating systems…
Corel PowerTrace - amazing piece of software
We have a 53 feet by 7 feet wall in the new office and are preparing a poster for it. The size is huge and we wanted to do some vector images for it. We had…
Leadership - begins with self leadership
I took an introductory session on Leadership for the new Magneteers on Friday. The session was superb. I myself was amazed at the results we produced and the…
Finally - triple boot on the MacBook
I wrote earlier that I got my MacBook and will be installing Windows and Ubuntu on it. After more than a month of writing that, I finally have a MacBook that…
CNBC TV18 - Young Turks interview
CNBC TV18 interviewed me today for their Young Turks show. The show is about young entrepreneurs - who will be big tycoons tomorrow ;) It went very well. We…
Reliance's new logo - thumbs down
That's the new brand identity of Reliance Infocomm / Reliance Communications. I saw it first on a big billboard near my house. The first impression I had was:…
PDF2SWF - swf not showing up in the Loader component
I am facing a peculiar problem. Looks like it is a pdf2swf issue, I am pretty much frustrated with it. Posting it here to see if somebody can solve it! I have…
Ten Lessons for Investors
Here are ten lessons for investors. Adapted from an article from Centrum's magazie - Money Compass. 1. Be wary of complex investment strategies with fancy names…
Fetchmail and large emails
When came to office on Saturday, I wanted to spend some time on OpenCerti and complete the pending ActionScript work. But there was a problem waiting! The…
FileReference - on Mac, type is not available
For doing file uploads with Flash, you have to use the FileReference class. Now it's a really nice feature - provides the basic features for uploading files and…
Making a difference
We had a colleague who was not performing upto my expectations. He broke his promises and did not seem to put in enough efforts. Seemed like he was taking…
Love of Gujarati language
After Chitralekha did a story on us (GujaratiLexicon and Utkarsh, Chitralekha site requires special font download to view the site in Gujarati); we have been…
Installing PHP on RHEL 4
Had to install PHP5 with SOAP support on a server. The server was a fresh RHEL4 edition. It's been a while I setup PHP on a server and our sys admin was on…
ffmpeg - mov uploaded from mac
Facing a strange problem! I have a few mov files that I want to convert to SWF. Have a web interface to upload the files, and then php calls ffmpeg to do the…
Bowling Alley
Puzzle 3 - Bowling Alley You may have played the game of bowling. This time's logic builder is to build a very simple bowling game to find out how many pins you…