Ritesh on May 25th, 2012Scaling Grails – a checklist for tuning your grails application
I have been using Grails for almost a year now and have fallen in love with it. If you are looking for a good rapid application development framework, and are comfortable with Java, then Grails is definitely something you should check out. Given that it has the patronage of the Spring community (now VMWare) , [...]
Ritesh on Jul 24th, 2009One Decade of Programming
Sometime around July 1999 was the time I wrote my first “Hello World” program. Yes, its been 10 years since I started programming, and I dont mean L R L T of Logo. In fact, I wrote some BASIC code as early as 1995-96, but I will skip that for reasons beyond the scope of [...]
Ritesh on Jul 2nd, 2007Social Design and the Opaque value problem
I read this post by Joshua Porter about the value of social networks and the opaque value problem and it got me thinking. Why and for what do we actually use web based services. The fact that we don’t understand what value others get from social web apps is part of the paradigm of social [...]
Ritesh on Jun 18th, 2007Selecting a good theme for your blog
Past couple of days, I have been trying to pick out a new theme for my blog and have made a small checklist of things needed to make the decision more simple. I had been running a really pretty theme which somehow seemed to hamper the entire readers experience, So I picked this new one. [...]
Ritesh on Jun 7th, 2007Rules for high performance websites
My recent interest in building scalable applications has led me to learn a lot of simple yet effective programming and deployment techniques, to scale and deliver web apps with ease. Its not rocket science to build for scalability but it certainly gets challenging when your app really scales you come across problems about your environment, [...]
