I took up a resolution in 2015 to pick up my lost interest in photography and get better at it. With a lot of up and downs over the last 14 months I managed to keep up with my resolution. Over this year I switched to Sony mirrorless completely and dedicated my effort to landscapes. Here are a few …
I have been writing and deploying applications for the past 7 years. I wish I had some friends to set up and run the servers for me but I was nt lucky enough. So I had to always do it myself. It took about an year for me to really start enjoying server management. I self taught the art of installing …
One of my resolutions this year was to shoot photos with camera, develop them, print them and make a real physical album. So I spent about 15 days researching which camera to buy. This research consumed about 2-3 hours everyday reading many many blog posts along with watching many youtube videos. …
29 Aug 2013 I set off on my journey to “Land of Holy Cross” Brasil. Took a good 16hr flight via Houston, TX to reach São Paulo. The journey took around good 16 hrs. Procuring a visa was easy but required 2 visits to the Brasil consulate. United airways has good direct flights to Sao …
I have been working on a experiment framework recently which allows us to change experiment values on the fly. This has been one of the things we needed for a while. We would push a feature to 1% of our users and something goes wrong and we want to turn off the experiment as soon as possible. …
Couple of weeks back I started to rewrite one of our core service layer where I refactored a bunch of code and abstracted in a more reusable fashion. This involved touching some mysql cursor code and I accidentally introduced a memory leak during this. Unfortunately we found this bug right about one …
Well my 6 months old job hunt finally ended. There is a lot I learned throughout this journey. Quite a lot of experiences varying from pleasant to frustrating. In the end it’s all fair.
A few lessons I learned in this period of time.
Never confine yourself to a technology Yup this is a blunder …
Well after reading the tweet from Chris Amico I felt that I should write a post on my 2008 memories. Well 2008 is quite a big year to me.
First I found django. Well putting a framework name as first point is kind of funny but its the fact. But it was around Dec 2007 and early 2008 I found django. I …