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Looking back at 2008
In a few days, another year will be over. This has been one hell of a year. So much learning, so many changes in life and so many new people I have met and interacted with. I wanted to write down a few things here just to record them somewhere and look back at them [...]
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The story of a redesign - Part 1 - Why?
Last few months have been very interesting as we had been working hard on a new Muziboo that we finally launched yesterday. It was very exciting because this is the first Muziboo design where we have worked with a professional designer and there has been a lot of learning involved. This will be a series [...]
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Getting Real and avoiding useless features
Getting Real is one of my favorite books on writing software and I love reading it every now and then. However when it comes to real projects, one is very likely to skip the advice given in that book. Its very easy to overbuild a product especially if you love coding. I have seen this [...]
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Barcamp Bangalore 5, Muziboo and Blogging debate
Barcamp Bangalore 5 was a pretty interesting experience. I met literally hundreds of interesting people, attended a few interesting sessions and organised a session on “Challenges in building an online community”. On the second day of barcamp, there was a blogging session that Nithya attended. The day before, a few of us (Nithya, I and [...]
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Google’s OpenSocial and Muziboo.com
I am very excited (as is everyone else) on OpenSocial’s launch. Most of the users for Muziboo.com are members of orkut and we are planning to roll out a few applications over the next week or so to help them showcase their music to their friends.
The great thing about open social is ‘learn once write [...]
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Rubyworks on Debian Etch
I recently got a new VPS account and it runs 64 bit Debain Etch (4.0). I installed rubyworks on it and the installation went pretty smooth. After that, I tried to move muziboo.com files to this server and a lot of error started happening in trying to get the app up.
First one was
muziboo@debian:~/muziboo/muz$ rake db:migrate
(in [...]
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Ruby on rails learning curve!
The post should be called my ruby on rails learning curve. I just wanted to write about what it was for a person like me to learn ruby on rails and get productive in it and make something like Muziboo.com
I was introduced to rails by a cousin of mine when I was trying to decide [...]
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Startup moments!
I am working on Muziboo these days and everytime I see someone use the site and upload something, thats one great moment. It made me specially happy to listen to the piece below. Its from the movie roja (tamil),
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