Thought Train to Nowhere

I've tried literate programming multiple times and not really succeeded in adopting it. The problem lies in the fact that programming i...

This happens to me all the time: I have to create a password for a site that I dont use everyday, but its an important site, like a bank or...

So I watched Lingaa yesterday. Because of which I was googling and youtubing for rajni's impact outside india; and was largely expect...

Had this idea while in a meeting at work today where ADA was being talked about; and how making a page ADA compliant required reordering th...

Graphviz continues to amaze me. I did not know until recently that they had an awk-like language for graphs within the graphviz package, bu...

This is a personal first. I took my wife's laptop apart and repaired it! My wife has a Lenovo 670 that we bought in India. Its a low-...

For a long time I've tried to create a portable environment for myself, without much success. A portable environment is a collect...

I have been thinking lately about visualizations of a codebase - spurred on because of recently rediscovering Software Catography and its s...

Its been almost 9 months since I've blogged! I realized it only yesterday. A lot has happened in that gap  - I moved halfway across...

I had an idea for a stream-of-consciousness editor. So I started creating a prototype using node-webkit, codemirror and my non-existent ui...

So I'm still on Snow Leopard, which means node-webkit's pre-built binaries are of no help - they start at 10.7. The pithy response...

I was in the middle of deciding how to proceed with my current side project when I realized that I'd not yet created an architectural d...

This one has been annoying me for quite a while - looking at the string of tabs in the mac's Terminal App, all of them titled "bas...

I've been prototyping a GDoc-based 43 folders for a few weeks now. The biggest two problems I have to date are: the ease with which...

I recently had to consider the Groovy space for a project proposal as the client had decided on Groovy/Grails as the platform of choice. ...

I've long felt that it might be a good idea to create a web-based controller for JMeter. JMeter has been and still is a good tool for ...

You know how we have modules, layers and environments for code but none of these concepts are actually IN the language? Modules are ty...

I just finished using Excel as a UI Mockup tool and am amazed at just how usable it was. More (with pictures, tips and techniques) when m...

This idea is from a recent outing of 3 couples with kids under six: A Phone app that tells whose turn it is to change diaper/ deal with t...

I had been thinking about the difference between text editing and structured editing and it dawned upon me that the latter will never win ...

I dont yet have a good name for this concept, but here's the idea anyway: You know a lot of good ideas are better put in an email ins...

Sometimes you dont think of the obviousness of an idea until someone hits you on the head with it. Typescript was released today and i...

Today's XKCD comic and its interpretation as a zoomable view using Leaflet had me thinking of the possibilities this presents: ...

I attended the second BangaloreJS meet today. The sessions were good and so was the food; and I met some really interesting people so in al...

I download things all the time, and all of them to go to the same place always - my downloads folder. Its nice to have a single place to lo...

"Huh? Isn't that counter-intuitive?", you ask? I realizing something particular as a result of some experiences and wrote...

...yeah, kinda linkbait-y heading, I know. What I mean is: What if there is no single source of the code? Let me explain. Typically w...

Why not, I ask? The Naked Objects Pattern has been an idea that I've always found interesting and useful for quick-n-dirty apps. T...

HN > Techcrunch story > Google Search for paper mentioned > Ch1 of paper , which had this nugget: " I noticed that, often,...

A nebulous idea grows within me partly from GUTSE's insight that all programming is mere translation from one  language to another: All...

So nearly 13 years after my first java program, I finally attended a JavaOne. I remember sitting in Chennai years ago wishing I were in Ca...