Prateek Dayal

I recently got to know on twitter about minefield. Its basically Firefox 3.1 beta release and its awesome. I use gentoo linux 2008.0 (AMD 64 bit version) and I had been using a 32 bit firefox (2.0.0.14) on it so I can use flash. I had also installed a flock 2.0 beta to use firefox [...]

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One of the hardest thing when doing a startup is to know how well you are doing in an absolute sense. You can look at your stats, your metrics (signups/day etc) but its generally hard to find how you are doing compared to other people in your industry vertical.
Google Analytics offers a benchmarking service that [...]

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One of the tools that I use everyday to stay productive while working out of home is assembla. Its a svn+trac hosting provider and they had a very generous free plan till about a day or two back. However recently they decided to shut down the free plan and have only paid plans. They have [...]

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I recently lost my glasses and had to go out and get a new pair done. I had almost the similar experience that I have had many times before at stores in Bangalore (and I think elsewhere). You walk into a chain (like GKB opticians) and you can see the disinterested look in the sellers [...]

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Today was google’s first developer day in India at Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore. I had registered a couple of weeks back and could get into the otherwise sold out event. Here is a brief of the event.
Keynote
The keynote by Dr. Prasad talked about how google’s mission is about improving the Client, Cloud and Connectivity. There were [...]

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I use a lot of web based softwares everyday and I can almost see a pattern in the services I am in love with. They all provide very detailed statistics. Services such as Google Analytics and Gigya. Google Analytics is very well know. Gigya is a widget distribution service and you can see it in [...]

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I recently attended the Finance for Entrepreneurs course offered by NSRCEL of IIM Bangalore. The course description can be found in this doc file. The 2 day course costs 6K Rs which includes course fees, food (tea, lunch, snacks for both days) and a finance book. The course instructor is Prof Jayadev

This is the first [...]

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I recently switched from apache to nginx as my webserver and since then my blog’s admin section was inaccessible. I have finally been able to crack it today and hence this quick post to celebrate :)
I think nginx rocks in general and I will soon write a more detailed post about nginx and the move [...]

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