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 software. [...]
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, [...]
Ritesh on May 31st, 2007Job rotation in IT
Thanks to Nishant from office, I got this great article from Forrester Research about job rotation in the IT industry and why it makes sense. I don’t really know If can put these things up on my blog, but I shall do it anyway ( apologies Forrester, its for the betterment of mankind) .
I am [...]
