Ritesh on Feb 8th, 2012Design improvements to car and bike headlights
There are many unlit roads and curbs in Bangalore and other places. I have had lots of near-miss accidents while turning into a dark curb or alley. The reason for this is that the headlights on a car and bike don’t light the way in the direction of your turn. Let me explain with a [...]
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 : [...]
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 [...]
