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Social Life Limits

Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Mail services like GMail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail play a big role in our Internet Life. What is the limits these sites impose on us? By how much can we push our internet life using these sites? Facebook 1. The maximum limit on the number of friends you can have on Facebook is …

Advanced Bash Scripting – Part 1

Hello everyone, I’m planning to solve the problems in the Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide, say like one problem per week. Why am I doing this? 1. The problems there are very interesting. 2. Working in windows all the time, I feel I’m losing my shell scripting abilities. This will keep me updated. The problem we are going to solve this week …

My Bangalore Trip

Disclaimer: This is a personal post. It is all about me and what I did in the last 3 days. If you don’t know me at all, I strongly advise you to stop reading here and I apologize for taking your time. If you are geek like me and prefer to read a technical post, rather than this boring post, …

I am still alive

That’s true. My last post was exactly 3 months ago and I’ve posted only 2 posts in the last 6 months, but I’m alive. Lots and lots of new stuff has happened during these 6 months. Things which took up all my time and didn’t even let me think about blogging. Probably this is what happens, when you do something …

One month @ Interviewstreet

One month since I’ve quit IBM. 1 month.. 30 days… 720 hrs… So, how was the experience as an entrepreneur? How does it feel to work all on my own without a big fat cheque waiting for me on the 1st day of every month? This is my blog and this post is going to be all about me. This …

MVP’s Super 10 :-)

The summary of the story startupCount += 10; mentorCount++; Yes, MVP has announced their new batch of 10 startups. To make things more exciting, they have Indus Khaitan in the team. Things you might know about indus. 1. Chief Technology Officer of SezWho, a Silicon Valley startup 2. 5 bare minimum things a web startup CTO MUST worry about, at …

Interviewstreet

Yes, I’ve quit IBM and now the signature in my emails says Harishankaran Software Developer, Interviewstreet.com Now that I can post anything I want (not that IBM stopped me writing what I wanted to write :P), let me try to answer a few questions my friends asked, when I told them about my venture. What triggered you guys [ working …

Install multiple firefox extensions

I’m a full time web developer now. Million thanks to Firefox, web development is made much much easier. To make the web development process easier, there are many many extensions. A few of them I use for my development, 1. Firebug 2. Web Developer 3. ColorZilla 4. MeasureIt 5. ViewSourceChart 6. FireCookie 7. YSlow 8. Delicious. 9. Twitterfox 10. CSS …

Save Before Save – Gedit Plugin

A few days back, I got a mail from my friend, saying, Subject: Versioning in Windows Hi guys, Does any one know a software that can version files in windows? As simple as: There’s a certain folder of files I want to be “version” tracked, I specify the list of folders. After this, every change I make is time-archived. So …

One Year in IBM.

Completed one year in IBM today. Ironically, I told my manager that I’m going to quit today. 🙂 I’ve learnt lots and lots in this one year, both technically and non-technically. Nothing much more tell. Rather, I prefer not to say anything in my blog here. 🙂

Online Programming Contest Calendar.

Hi all, I’m very happy to present you Online Programming Contest Calendar (http://www.opccalendar.com/). This is something I wanted to do for Spider in college. All I could finish in college was a simple fetcher from algorithmist.com and topcoder.com. Now, I have everything I wanted to have in this new site. And yes, I hated the algorithmist.com calendar. There was so …

Dictionary attack

This is a tutorial about how to perform a dummy dictionary attack and how web-masters can prevent a dictionary attack. Wikipedia defines Dictionary attack as, In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by searching likely possibilities. A dictionary attack uses …

FAQ for a startup

I’ve been to Proto.in a month ago. I should have posted this long back. Better late than never. The event was awesome. The experience and inspiration I got when seeing other startups can’t be described in mere words. The last session of the second day was pretty interesting. People were asked to pool in the questions they had in mind …

Update…

/* Personal post. Exit here if you don’t know me or if you aren’t interested. Read this at your own risk. */ Hi all, Been a long time since I posted anything here. So many things have been happening around me and as usual, I was caught up with all _personal_ issues. 🙂 So here I’m. 4 in the morning. …

Software Development Cycle

Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren’t really bugs. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn’t work and discovers 15 new bugs. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4. Due to marketing pressure and …

I’m Happy

No, not because it is a new year. A single chat changes your mood totally. Can’t tell anything more. And yeah… CONGRATS. 🙂 🙂 🙂 I’m so so so so glad now. 🙂

Photolog 5…

Been a long time since I posted any photolog in my blog. So here comes one. 😉 Click on the picture to view the picture in original size. 🙂

Obfuscate C Code – Part III

Hi all, This is my third post on the series of articles I’m writing on C code obfuscation. You can check all the posts I’ve written about obfuscation here. The task for this post is quite simple. Given two numbers a and b (b>a>3) as input, print all prime numbers in between a and b (including a and b). Let …

15/12/2008 – Thanks…

Writing this post just to remember this night. Obviously a personal post, so no one will understand anything. Please stop reading after this. 🙂 For the first time in my life, I want to remember this night forever. I think I’ll do. I feel like I can sleep after this. It is 4AM. And I have that smile in my …

Friends…

Top ten things that pops out of my mind when I think about Friends. 1. duck and the chick 2. ugly naked guy 3. double pizza 4. paleontologist 5. foozball 6. Days of our Lives 7. Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E 8. How you doin. 9. Turkey in thanksgiving dinner 10. ‘Shall we go get some coffee?’ ‘Sure. Where?’