I started blogging back in 2004 on LiveJournal (it was Medium of those days, if you kids don’t know). I didn’t have any audience in mind when I wrote on my personal blog – it was literally a log of my personal thoughts. It allowed me to write about anything.
An year later I started writing about free and open source software and that was when I was writing for an audience. I was writing for others who want to learn and use open source software.
I have a few bank accounts and there is this particular local bank called City Union Bank, that is more than hundred years old.
I received an email from that bank which has a list of different new features that they have added for the benefit of the customers, using latest technology that they could get their hands on – like self service branches, mobile banking using android apps, missed call balance enquiry, and many more.
Technical Debt is a term that most developers have heard of. Even if you haven’t heard of the term, I am pretty sure you would have done something in your programming career that is a technical debt.
Technical Debt is a metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of poor system design, software architecture or software development within a codebase.
In most cases, it is that quick and dirty hack your manager asked to put in just so that he could deliver it to the client.
Disclaimer: Persons/organisations mentioned in this story are based on real-life. Any resemblance to persons/organizations living/dead is intentional. Imagine you run a startup called Super Duper Software Inc and you have a decent dev team. You now need to hire programmers and you see two fresh off the college programmers applying. First programmer (fake named Aakash) who knows nothing more …
The other day I was consolidating all my ideas in my Evernote and I found that I have noted down a lot of projects/ideas for products. Some are so trivial and simple that if I could sit down I will be able to get a prototype or MVP out in a few hours or maximum …
Here’s a crazy simple idea that someone can build over a weekend.
A Web Service with a browser extension where anyone visiting a webpage (page, not the site) would be able to chat with other visitors of the same page in realtime.
They say change is the only constant in life. May be that’s why I keep changing my blog host and the software.
Initially, cnu.name started off on nanoc and then I used Octopress. But I haven’t been posting anything on it. Partly because I use two computers and I didn’t get around to configuring octopress and git as I wanted on both the machines.
For a long time all my personal stuff were posted on my livejournal, blogger or posterousblogs. I always wanted to get my own domain name, but couldn’t get cnu.in or cnu.me as they were already registered.
And one day while doing a domain search, I found that cnu.name was available and is a better choice than the .in ccTLD or .me ccTLD as .name gTLDs are for names and nicknames.