IM back in India after short stay in Uncle Sam’s Country

It was a great place indeed .. It was fun meeting new ppl and being there ..

But Home is Home and India is the best place whatever it is !!

IM currently traveling in sub-urban chicago on the metra ..

I have been outside the country for nearly 6 months now ..

life has changed a lot and things are moving really fast ..

and i hardly blog here .. you can find me on twitter varunkrish

i have also been doing a lot of work for fonearena

I have got my hands on the first google android phone the g1

I just got a mail from Venture beat which was just headlines and ads

See it for yourself ..

is this a glitch in adsense for feeds or is VentureBeat running short of cash for its servers

I would expect to see a paypal donate button if its the latter

I have not been blogging for quite some time now .. blame a hectic work schedule .. cooking and too much partying !

Another reason for me to stop blogging is that IM really tooo lazzzy to login to my blog and write a new post and publish it ..

I prefer twitter these days ..

the past few months have been really exciting for me ..

a lot of travel .. working with new technologies .. ROR , PHP .. worked on a Facebook App and an iPhone app ..

Right now IM using jquery working on a site using OOJS .. and also working on performance tuning for a couple of sites ..

IM at the Chicago Linux meetup and I m seeing an interesting app being discussed.

Its an application launcher for Linux GNOME called Do.

Its something similar to QuickSilver for mac osx which I have been trying for the past 1 week ..

Get it on your linux box

Time to setup a dedicated Linux box at Home

IndiaPlaza.in are a bunch of idiots running the shopping site ..

Nothing gets delivered in time

No wonder e-commerce sucks in india . these f***ers have debited the money from my account on aug 30 and the item has still not been delivered in chennai ..

After using Amazon.com and their order tracking systems .. i feel sick of sites like indiaplaza .. why do they even operate a business ?

Never Buy from indiaplaza ..

I m indeed surprised at this move by google to launch a browser product ..

Google Chrome was released a few hours back for download ..

Google did it first with gtalk, reinvented IM. some people felt it lacked a lot of stuff . but for me gtalk is my primary IM now .. its just simple and clutter free..

Now Google is doing the same thing with Chrome. The main idea behind the product is to simplify Web Browsing and they have done a great job .. the initial version of the product looks impressive ..

I m a Web Developer and I was impressed when I saw that development tools came bundled . Also there’s a fancy task manager which I have not seen in any browser so far.

Change is inevitable

I was using perforce for the past 3 months and now I have to use Subversion at my new project

I have used subversion in the past but i started liking perforce due to its ease of use and simple commands

only pain was having to do a p4 edit on each file before editing it

I stumbled upon this nice article about Perforce to Subversion migration

Althougth the article is mainly about migrating code , it also talks about equivalent commands in perforce and subversion.

I found it really useful

Also theregister had a nice comparison

Version Control was not a big thing as long as I was doing freelance development. But once I got into the process of working with a team I released that a Team programming without source control is useless.

I started using CVS with the WinCVS client .. Then moved on to use Sub Version with the TortoiseSVN client..

I spent most of the last 2 years in Microsoft world .. So Team Foundation Server was the system..

Right now IM on Ruby and we are using Perforce which is actually Damn Good !

Ther user interface is damn simple although it might look a bit funny.

Its one the systems used by development teams which work on various platforms ..

I can check in code from my windows box and get latest on my Linux box / server ..

This is really cool !!

This event happened on March 23rd at Amethyst Cafe, Off Peters Road

Kiruba named it Tweetup a

event wiki

I don’t use twitter that much but still Twitter has such a large user base .

It was fun meeting folks using the application

Gosh ! I finally managed to get the pics on Flickr ! check my twitter meet photo set Photos were captured by my Nokia N82 .. and damn IM not even there in a single pic !