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From the Horse’s Mouth: Arundhati speaks on International Women’s Day

Arundhati — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:46:53 +0000

Prasad: I know quite a few avid writers in my friend circle who are lazy enough to run their own blog. I am going to keep the stage open at prasadgupte.com for sharing their wisdom, and to benefit them from provoked skill-set retrospection & motivation to start writing more. What’s a better start than to [...]

Tarpipe workflows for publishing updates to multiple social media sites

Prasad — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:27:15 +0000

Off-late, I have had too much social presence on the internet. How do I manage it? Ping.fm! This service lets you pre-configure & then simultaneously update multiple social media sites by pinging Ping.fm which can be done via email, SMS (to a UK number - noooooh!) or a Jabber/Gtalk bot. Now that’s enough for the [...]

Jargon: Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment (EIPP)

Prasad — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:04:30 +0000

Electronic Invoice Presentment and Payment, or EIPP, is more general concept (as compared to ERS discussed earlier) that is based on electronic invoice submission. ERS uses Advance Shipping Notices (ASNs) instead of invoice. However, they share benefits: avoidance of data entry, errors and exceptions, lost invoices and vendor inquiries. Most solutions are capable of receiving [...]

Jargon: FITALY Keyboard Layout

Prasad — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:19:22 +0000

FITALY is a keyboard layout that places the most commonly-used letters closest to the centre, to minimize finger movement while entering a word. Designed by Jean Ichbiah (Patent), it is specifically optimized for stylus or touch-based input. The name, FITALY, is derived from the letters occupying the second row in the layout (like QWERTY comes [...]

Strategies to Log & Retain Activity Data

Prasad — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:36:43 +0000

My previous article The Need to Log & Retain Activity Data argued the very need of logging & retaining data. In this post, I am listing out various logging strategies along with some brief explanation, utility, associated constraints and effectiveness of each method. As highlighted before, most people fail to understand the difference between logs/traces, [...]

The Need to Log & Retain Activity Data

Prasad — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:34:36 +0000

In the current age of On-Demand & SaaS combined with multi-tenant hosting, we are likely to generate tons of activity data every hour. For this data to be useful to administration & support teams, IT has to plan for its conversion to information. The strategy to implement information logging should be built right into the [...]

Amazing Comments In Source Code by Developers

Prasad — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 05:29:04 +0000

As I was getting over Monday blues, Aditya Tripathi sent this funny-yet-realistic! I’m sure this will get every dev-devil laughing with delight; reminiscing the KLOC written with cryptic comments or nothing at all. Here you go, the best code comments seen in source code…! //When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was [...]

Gazelle - Paying you for used gadgets

Prasad — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:46:47 +0000

I sometimes spend a lot of my time and blog-space publicizing (often, through criticism) other products, websites, hotels, etc. But sometimes I just want to show respect for great ideas. And nothing excites me more than green initiatives! While going through Gopal Shenoy’s blog on Product Management tips, I got to learn of this cool [...]

Google Transliteration: Type Indic languages in any text-box

Prasad — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:00:13 +0000

Last week I stumbled upon this amazing service called Google Transliteration that can be accessed through a bookmarklet (jargon explained at the bottom). You can use this to type in one of the Indic languages in any text input box on the internet! (whether it really gets saved depends on the website ) Language [...]

What a ‘gluttonous’ weekend I’ve had

Prasad — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 03:27:38 +0000

This weekend has been quite different. With Valentine’s day falling on a Sunday, it should have been something for my heart, but instead it was great for my stomach. I had been eating out all the time. The food forced me too take long walks to make place for another meal, and I used it [...]