Magnet HackFest01 Report

And it is over! We completed Magnet’s first HackFest at 5pm today. A bunch of hackers came together on 23rd December at 5pm, and hacked internals of systems, coded cool ideas, researched on future trends, watched movies, ate pizzas and vada pavs, goofed around, and had a tremendous experience in 24 hours. As I already […]

What are we doing this weekend – hacking!

Kartik, Naveen and Ameya have organized Magnet’s first HackFest this weekend. Eight of us are here, ready to hack, and stuff our stomachs with pizzas and pesticides (err.. Coke). We already have some stuff going on. Participants so far are: Kartik, Naveen, Ameya, Vishal, Vinay, Mohan, Arun & Me. Kartik kicked off the HackFest and […]

The Asterisk Saga

We worked on an Asterisk setup project two weekends ago. It was a rocking experience. And Ameya, one of the heroes in the story, has written up a nice saga on it! Credits to the whole team that worked on it, and thanks to Ameya for writing this up! Here you go on the Asterisk […]

Akismet not catching spam, popularity contest known issues

Been getting a lot more spam lately, and Akismet fails to catch them. Have 1000+ caught by Akismet, and 300+ which are spam, but not caught by Akismet. And that over the last 3 days. That’s too bad for Akismet, or too good for the spammers. Have re-activated HashCash plugin, so let’s see what happens […]