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. …
When I saw that 53 was launching a stylus, I thought it will be just a basic functioning stylus. But when I saw the intro video it was really good. Not that it blew my mind but the design was simple and intuitive. I pre-ordered one immediately. I received mine recently and so did Justin Edmund. …
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. …
I went to Boston MIT to recruit for software engineering internship positions. It was 2 days full of interviews. Meeting people getting to know them and gauge them its a super tiring job. Regardless I enjoyed doing it. I wanted to do it so that I get to know what’s the next generation looking …
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 …
Its often common to see some python process like a webserver process or a python script running for a long time and you have no idea what its doing currently. Although you have logging and print statements it does not help much to get a sense of what the latency is all about. I personally encounter …
PyMysql is a pure python mysql client, which is trying to be a drop in replacement for python-mysqldb. There is a install_as_MySQLdb function which when called makes PyMysql to be a drop in replacement for MySQLdb. I am excited about this project because its so easy to install and get started. …
Memcache is one key component that cannot be neglected from a web stack. Its almost certain that when you have some sort of caching before your database layer it is certainly gonna improve your performance. But setting up memcache in a production environment is slightly trickly espcially when you …
Statsd is a nodejs daemon for easy stats aggregation from folks at etsy. If you have n’t come across statsd I suggest you read blog post from etsy devops team here.
I like the fact that they chose UDP to aggregate stats since its blazing fast. Graphite is chosen as a backend to store the …
More than 6% of the web is powered by nginx today. Nginx out of the box is very fast and extremely good at serving static content. But then you have a growing traffic you need to monitor all of your infrastructure and make sure no body is gating your speed.
The first thing …
Its pretty common to backup mysql with mysqldump utility but this backup acquires a global lock on all tables. Especially when your database is huge it takes few minutes to take a backup. When you only one database / shard in production running a dump will result in downtime. Another popular way to …
Autocomplete is one feature that has become an integral part of every application. Building a fast, scalable autocomplete is pretty big project of its own especially if you have a ever growing data set. One of the best autocomplete I have seen is Quora’s search autocomplete. I know google and …
Tornado has been an excellent webserver with a minimal framework feature set. I love the way how signed cookies have been implemented. So clean and easy to use.
When I started to use tornado for a project there are a few hurdles you might come across.
Update: There are quite some interesting projects to create thumbnails and provide storage access. django-imagekit, django-thumbs, sorl-thumbnail, django-storages etc. Check them out!!
It’s been a while since I blogged and just wanted to share a quick snippet I wrote to create …
A man who needs no introduction!!
Has given the world a gift, his talent, and, in return, took crucification.
Redefined the term professional entertainer.
A pop phenomenon who never stopped pushing the envelope of creativity
Has his own touch of technology lean boot
The meaning …
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 …
Well there are bunch of posts on setting up a slice with django. I just wanted to write one for myself so that I can setup a slice in future without wasting much time searching. When you get a brand new slice you need to setup SSH access into your slice.
I recommend to go with Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. …
After being an active member in django-syncr I have gained some experience with API calls and parsing data from XML/JSON. It is a lot of fun working in such a project. Recently I have written Readernaut and Brightkite syncr apps which pulls user’s data and writes into a django model.
Setting …
Recently when I started to redesign my blog I re-wrote a lot of the code to be more optimized. During this process of re-writing I just found a more better way to write templates. Its not very new and innovative but I found it to be a huge time saver.
During my redesign I had to re-write all my …
Generally its the other way around. But adidas redefined the meaning.
This is the story of a french guy who left his country and family to fulfill his American dream. Ok what’s his American dream? To be a director. No plz dont laugh. He’s serious.
I met frank about an year ago and …
Here is the quick post on how I setup my django development and production server. I know everybody has their own type of server setup but I just wanted to share mine. So basically I created two apache instances which run production and development servers respectively. If you are with webfaction …
I have been using django signals for quite sometime and I absolutely love it the way it works. Its an extremely useful tool when used can create beautiful algo-flow. I will explain use of django signals with a practical scenario.
Definition: In telephony, signaling is the exchange of information …
Transformation complete. Output: A fresh repository with all my code base migrated from SVN to GIT.
Yes, I agree that I am late in using a version control. First of all i am a student and not a programmer. Frankly I started writing a bit code once i started using Django. Later on these days I am …
I sync various data from twitter, brightkite and flickr into my blog. I use cronjob to achieve this. It is important for me to know if my cron’s are running fine. In my case, I had to tough time getting a cron running. The first problem I encountered was to get DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE set. This …
Since, March 2007 I started working on my blog where I learned a lot of things about Django. I could get the blog app running in few days. After that I started writing my templates, I realized the importance of design for a webpage. I have never designed a page from scratch. This was my experiment …
That’s how all the programming books state their first program as. Well I wonder who set that standard. Most experts say that it is a simple program to show how to print a string. Sounds convincing enough. Ok anyway I just want to say Hello World as a start for my new django powered blog
