Ritesh on Jan 20th, 2012How to pick a domain name for your next web product – Tips
Picking an effective domain name for your web product/service/company is currently at the top of on my list of the hardest things to do for a web startup. For a web startup, domain names can make or break a business. You don’t want a name like expertsexchange (figure this out). Here is a simple checklist [...]
Ritesh on Apr 27th, 2010Interviews Schminterviews
In the last three weeks, I have panel interviewed about 3 people and have reviewed about 4 others in their interview process. I must say, I am surprised at the level of technical skill most of these candidates exhibit during the interviews. People with lot more years of experience than me go dumb founded when [...]
Ritesh on Jan 5th, 2010Extending jQuery validation plugin – custom validation
JQuery validation plugin has saved me hours of development time on projects. It contains definitions for most validation tasks that you would need, including AJAX based validations. But if you have to do anything more than the ordinary, you have extend the library yourself. Here’s an example of an extension I wrote :
Functionality : I [...]
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 Feb 23rd, 2009Uncertainty in programming – the lochness of the programming world
Programming has come many a mile since the 70’s. A wide array of languages, methodologies, frameworks and other similar artifacts have made the life of a programmer really simple. These artifacts have incrementally solved problems faced by programmers and slowly, but steadily, wrapped the programmers view of a program into a set of abstractions. One [...]
