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Speaking at RubyConf India 2011

May 20th, 2011 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

The second edition of RubyConf India is happening this month on the 28th and 29th of May. I will be speaking on Single Page Web Applications Using Backbone.js & Ruby on Rails. We are using Backbone.js to build the Agent Dashboard for SupportBee. We test drive our javascript code using Jasmine and Sinon JS . [...]

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RedDot RubyConf 2011 and Github Drinkup

April 25th, 2011 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

I just came back from RedDot Ruby Conf 2011 in Singapore. It was a great conference that featured great rubyists and speakers like Matz, Dave Thomas, Mikel Lindsaar, Gregg Pollack. Some of the talks that I enjoyed were Ruby Can Haz Everyone by Mikel and Under the Covers with Rails 3 by Gregg. Apart from [...]

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Hacker News India Story

November 18th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

Let’s begin from the beginning. Last Sunday, when a group of about 15 Hacker News (HN) members from Bangalore got together for a coffee, one of the inevitable discussions was the lack of visibility for very India specific discussions in HN apart from the other inevitable discussion of the art of gaining Karmas. Later coffees [...]

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Dual Monitor Setup for Programming

November 17th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

During my recent trip to Vietnam, I worked on dual monitor machines at EastAgile and loved it. Once I was back in India, I missed the screen real estate and got a dual monitor setup for my macbook pro. Sadly it wasn’t easy but totally worth it. I had to buy a USB display adapter [...]

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Why we need more lifestyle businesses

September 19th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

I have been in Vietnam for last two months and for most part, I have been living in Ho Chi Minh City. Near my hotel is a cafe called Ca fe Tinhte. Its the best cafe I have known for people to sit and work from. There is free wifi and every table has power [...]

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Life with the New Macbook Pro

September 7th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

Last month I finally took the plunge and bought a 15” Macbook Pro. Since I was traveling to Ho Chi Minh, I stopped over at Singapore and bought it from the iStore on Terminal 3. Apple Singapore prices are cheaper than India and if you buy at the airport, you don’t even have to pay [...]

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Ho Chi Minh City

August 18th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

I have been in Ho Chi Minh City for the last two weeks and I am hoping to document my experience in this and (hopefully) few more blog posts. Basically it all started when I met Lawrence Sinclair last month in Bangalore and we talked about Ruby on Rails and East Agile (his company in [...]

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Presenting Facebook Connect Tutorial at Bangalore Facebook Developers Meetup

March 6th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

Deepan has started a Facebook Developers Meetup Group and the first meet is happening on 7th March 2010. You can find the details on upcoming. I will be giving a presentation on basics of Facebook Connect and a small tutorial on developing a simple application using FB Connect. This is the same talk that I [...]

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Buidling Social Applications with Facebook Connect – Tutorial at Compute 2010

January 16th, 2010 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

Facebook Connect is a powerful set of APIs for developers that lets users bring their identity and connections everywhere. – Facebook Connect Page at Facebook Developer site In simple terms, Facebook Connect lets you provide a ‘Login with Facebook’ functionality on your website. Once users login with their Facebook credentials, you can help them post [...]

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Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Phone Review

October 18th, 2009 by Prateek Dayal View Comments

I have decided to take a break from startup related blogging and review a few gadgets that I bought in the recent past (and some services I used in last few months). Enjoy the posts. The first one is a review of the Nokia 5800 xpress music phone that I got in August. I had [...]

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